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Buddy rich
Buddy rich







Neither do I know if Buddy’s typewritten responses are verbatim, or if this interview was published anywhere.īuddy Rich continually revises his style, creating and building in the process. Where the interview subject title has only Buddy’s words, Charlie left them unedited.įinally, I have no details on when or how Charlie’s interview with Buddy took place. I’m presenting this interview then with Buddy’s unedited words, and – in bold type – Charlie Perry’s edits of Buddy’s words. Charlie has then edited Buddy’s typewritten answers with a lead pencil, removing some of Buddy’s words, replacing Buddy’s words with his, Charlie’s, own words, and sometimes just changing punctuation. Following Charlie Perry’s introduction, this interview is formatted with subjects in underlined block letters, followed by Buddy’s answers typewritten.

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The original interview is on photocopied 8.5 x 11 sheets of white paper. This Buddy Rich interview is in a manila file folder labeled “Q&A Drumset Question Matter.” Charlie Perry, the interviewer, has Buddy Rich‘s answers to “practice habits and teaching methods considers wrong and in dire need of revision.” Buddy’s answers are fascinating and, in my opinion, too valuable to leave buried in a file folder. Do what? If I ever knew, I have forgotten. It’s probable Charlie handed me these file folders, asking me to look them over, and do something with the contents. How did I end up with Charlie’s file folders? Who knows? Charlie seemed always to have writing ideas looping through his imagination. I studied briefly with Charlie, and he was an early Modern Drummer fan and Advisory Board member.

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Charlie Perry also had an early rock drum method book with Gary Chester. His best known method book, perhaps, is The Art of Modern Jazz Drumming, which Charlie co-authored with Jack DeJohnette. Charlie was a noted drum teacher and author.

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SKF NOTE: Among my boxes of drumming memorabilia come a couple of legal size folders full of writing by Charlie Perry.







Buddy rich