18/11/2011 6:39 pm  #1


Buddy Cole - New Stereo CDs

One of Bing's more effective and long serving musical collaborators was Buddy Cole.

A new set CDs of Buddy at the organ has just been released with tracks dating from 1958 - 1960. 2 CDs representing four original LPs. I have an ancient LP of 'Powerhouse' and it's pretty good, (though I do think that Buddy's organ solos in the midst of some of Bing's own records are a little too obtrusive). Details here -
http://www.jasmine-records.co.uk/acatalog/jascd-185.html

 

26/11/2011 2:41 pm  #2


Re: Buddy Cole - New Stereo CDs

You know, when I was younger I never liked Buddy Cole - especially the recording he did with Bing. However, as I mature (haha) I think Buddy Cole was a very talented musician.

I even wrote a little profile of his life:
http://bingfan03.blogspot.com/2011/11/spotlight-on-buddy-cole.html

 

06/12/2011 3:39 pm  #3


Re: Buddy Cole - New Stereo CDs

I think much of what Buddy did with Bing is invisable to most of us a listeners and fans.  Was not Buddy the piano player in a great many of Bing's radio and studio recordings with John Scott Trotter's orchestra?  As leader of the rhythm section (piano, bass, drums), I suspect he was an invaluable collaborator in many of their best arrangements, if not the chief arranger in some instances.  Not to mention, that it may have nearly always been Buddy who dropped by Bing's house to run through new songs on the piano, as Bing was not fond of doing more full rehearsals at the studio than were absolutely necessary.  Then, too, I suspect Bing admired Buddy's versatility on a variety of keyboard instruments (piano, pipe and electronic organ, celeste) and his ability to play across so much of the vast septrum of styles, moods, and themes Bing's singing encompassed.  Might we have wished that Buddy was a bit more hip on some of those organ accompaniments in the 1950s, perhaps....  I have the HOT & COLE lp.  It's not beebop, but it's pretty cool.

That Jasmine CD seems like quite a bargain.  Richard, thanks for posting about it.

 

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