Bill Bruford Willowcrest ( A Tribute To Buddy Rich)

I knew a lot less about Buddys music than you might think. Id probably asked King Crimson bassist Tony Levin about Rich interestingly Tony, in his previous life as a jazz musician in the early 1970s, had worked and recorded with the Great Man. Id interviewed Buddy in Londons Dorchester Hotel and knew his classic West Side Story suite, but I didnt own any of his albums for some reason, and there was no YouTube or Spotify. Stupidly, I went into Willowcrest alarmingly underprepared. In the event, I didnt make any horrendous mistakes but neither does this performance add to the pantheon of great interpretations of his music. Elsewhere, Ive suggested that I did at least as well with the Buddy Rich Big Band as Buddy Rich would have done in King Crimson, a nightmare scenario that doesnt bear thinking about I certainly learned a lot about working with big bands, doing this and Lingo. The sound of all those guys blowing at once is huge in the headphones. There was no sense on my side