William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (Los Angeles, Califórnia, 6 de Agosto de 1921 – 19 de Setembro de 2010) foi um saxofonista, flautista e clarinetista norte-americano."Buddy Collette" - allmusic
Buddy foi muito influente no blues, tocando com grandes nomes como o saxofonista Dexter Gordon, baterista Chico Hamilton e seu grande amigo, o baixista Charles Mingus.
Discografia
Como líder/co-líder
Tanganyika (Dig, 1956) Man of Many Parts (Contemporary, 1956) Aloha To Jazz Bel Canto Records, 1957 (one side by The Polynesians) Cool, Calm & Collette (ABC-Paramount, 1957) Everybody's Buddy (Challenge, 1957) Porgy & Bess (Interlude, 1957) Nice Day with Buddy Collette (Contemporary, 1957) Flute Fraternity (Mode, 1957) Com Herbie Mann Aloha to Jazz (Bel Canto, 1957) Jazz Loves Paris (Specialty, 1958) Marx Makes Broadway, (VSOP, 1958) Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds (EmArcy, 1958) Buddy Collette Septet – Polynesia (Music & Sound, 1959) At the Cinema! (Mercury, 1959 The Polyhedric Buddy Collette (Music Records, 1961) Buddy Collette in Italia (Ricordi, 1961 The Soft Touch of Buddy Collette (Music Records, 1962) The Buddy Collette Quintet (Studio West, 1962) Com Irene Kral The Girl from Ipenema (Crown, 1964) Warm Winds (World Pacific, 1964) Com Charles Kynard Buddy Collette on Broadway (Survey, 1966) Now and Then (Legend, 1973) Block Buster (RGB, 1974) Flute Talk (Soul Note, 1988) Jazz for Thousand Oaks (UFO Bass, 1996) Live from the Nation's Capital (Bridge, 2000) Tasty Dish (Fresh Sound/Jazz Archives, 2004) Live at El Camino College (UFO Bass, 2006)
Com Chet Baker
Blood, Chet and Tears (Verve, 1970)
Com Louis Bellson
Music, Romance and Especially Love (Verve, 1957) Louis Bellson Swings Jule Styne (Verve, 1960)
Com Brass Fever
Brass Fever (Impulse!, 1975) Time Is Running Out (Impulse!, 1976)
Com James Brown
Soul on Top (King, 1969)
Com Red Callender
Swingin' Suite (Crown, 1957) The Lowest (MetroJazz, 1958)
Com Conte Candoli
Little Band Big Jazz (Crown, 1960)
Com Benny Carter
Aspects (United Artists, 1959) Additions to Further Definitions (Impulse!, 1966)
Com June Christy
Something Cool (Capitol, 1955) Ballads for Night People (Capitol, 1959)
Com Nat King Cole
L-O-V-E (Capitol, 1965)
Com Miles Davis and Michel Legrand
Dingo (Warner Bros., 1991)
Com Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Wham of Sam (Reprise, 1961)
Com Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (Verve, 1959)
Com Gil Fuller
Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (Pacific Jazz, 1965)
Com Ted Gärdestad
Blue Virgin Isles (Epic, 1978)
Com Jimmy Giuffre
The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet (Atlantic, 1956)
Com Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette (Pacific Jazz, 1955) The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet (World Pacific, 1955 ) Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi Fi (Pacific Jazz, 1956) Ellington Suite (World Pacific, 1959) The Three Faces of Chico (Warner Bros., 1959)
Com Eddie Harris
How Can You Live Like That? (Atlantic, 1976)
Com Jon Hendricks
¡Salud! João Gilberto, Originator of the Bossa Nova (Reprise, 1961)
Com Freddie Hubbard
The Love Connection (Columbia, 1979)
Com Quincy Jones
Go West, Man! (ABC Paramount, 1957)
Com Fred Katz
Soul° Cello (Decca, 1958) Folk Songs for Far Out Folk (Warner Bros., 1958)
Com Stan Kenton
Kenton / Wagner (Capitol, 1964)
Com Barney Kessel
Easy Like (Contemporary, 1956) Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By (Contemporary, 1957) Carmen (Contemporary, 1958)
Com Wade Marcus
Metamorphosis (Impulse!, 1976)
Com Les McCann
Les McCann Sings (Pacific Jazz, 1961)
Com Carmen McRae
Carmen for Cool Ones (Decca, 1958) Portrait of Carmen (Atlantic, 1968)
Com Charles Mingus
The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note, 1962 )
Com Blue Mitchell
Bantu Village (Blue Note, 1969)
Com Lyle Murphy
Four Saxophones in Twelve Tones (GNP, 1955)
Com Oliver Nelson
Zig Zag (Original Motion Picture Score) (MGM, 1970) Skull Session (Flying Dutchman, 1975) Stolen Moments (East Wind, 1975)
Com Dory Previn
On My Way to Where (United Artists, 1970) Mythical Kings and Iguanas (United Artists, 1971) Dory Previn (Warner Bros., 1974)
Com Don Ralke
Bongo Madness (Crown, 1957)
Com Buddy Rich
This One's for Basie (Norgran, 1956)
Com Little Richard
Mr. Big (Joy, 1965 )
Com Shorty Rogers
The Fourth Dimension in Sound (Warner Bros., 1961)
Com Pete Rugolo
The Music from Richard Diamond (EmArcy, 1959) Behind Brigitte Bardot (Warner Bros., 1960)
Com Horace Silver
Silver 'n Wood (Blue Note, 1974) Silver 'n Brass (Blue Note, 1975) The Continuity of Spirit (Silverto, 1985)
Com Frank Sinatra
Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! (Capitol, 1961) L.A. Is My Lady (Qwest, 1984)
Com Gábor Szabó and Bob Thiele
Light My Fire (Impulse!, 1967)
Com The Three Sounds
Soul Symphony (Blue Note, 1969) Persistent Percussion (1960, Kent, KST 500)
Com Mel Tormé
Comin' Home Baby! (Atlantic, 1962)
Com Stanley Turrentine
Everybody Come On Out (Fantasy, 1976)
Com Gerald Wilson
You Better Believe It! (Pacific Jazz, 1961) Lomelin (Discovery, 1981)
Com Nancy Wilson
Broadway – My Way (Capitol, 1964)
Com Red Norvo
Ad Lib (Liberty, 1957)
Leitura adicional
Jazz Generations: A Life in American Music and Society por Buddy Collette com Steven Iosardi (2000)
Ligações externas
Interview at UCLA Oral History Project Buddy Collette – NAMM Oral History Library (2008)
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