Big Swing Face
Live album by
ReleasedJune 1967[1]
RecordedFebruary 22–25 and March 10, 1967
VenueChez Club, Los Angeles, California
GenreJazz
Length36:16
LabelPacific Jazz
ProducerRichard Bock
Buddy Rich chronology
The Sounds of '66
(1966)
Big Swing Face
(1967)
The New One!
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Big Swing Face is a 1967 live album by the Buddy Rich Big Band. Its "The Beat Goes On" is a feature for Buddy Rich's daughter Cathy, whose vocal performance was overdubbed at United Recording in Hollywood.[2] A reissue in 1996 doubles the listing with nine unreleased performances from the same engagement at the Chez Club in Hollywood.[2]

Track listing

LP side A:

  1. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:57
  2. "Big Swing Face" (Bill Potts) – 5:15
  3. "Monitor Theme" (Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye) – 2:24
  4. "Wack Wack" (Isaac "Redd" Holt, Donald Storball, Hysear Don Walker, Jimmy Young) – 3:04
  5. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 4:30

LP side B:

  1. "Mexicali Nose" (Harry Betts) – 2:49
  2. "Willowcrest" (Bob Florence) – 4:55
  3. "The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) – 4:40
  4. "Bugle Call Rag" (Billy Meyers, Jack Pettis, Elmer Schoebel) – 4:42

Bonus tracks on 1996 CD reissue:

  1. "Standing Up in a Hammock" (Potts) – 2:32
  2. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 2:47
  3. "Lament for Lester" (Jay Corre) – 2:30
  4. "Machine" (Bill Reddie) – 3:45
  5. "Silver Threads Among the Blues" (Don Piestrup) – 4:40
  6. "New Blues" (Piestrup) – 4:38
  7. "Old Timey" (Bob Florence) – 3:25
  8. "Loose" (Bill Holman) – 4:05
  9. "Apples (aka Gino)" (Arthur M. Wiggins) – 2:35

Personnel

Musicians

References

  1. Billboard June 3, 1967
  2. 1 2 3 Big Swing Face at AllMusic
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1210. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.


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