
Michael Davis
Amongst a sea of bad decisions I’ve made in my life, that was a good one! (dropping out of school to join Buddy Rich’s band)
Amongst a sea of bad decisions I’ve made in my life, that was a good one! (dropping out of school to join Buddy Rich’s band)
The phone rings in my office. It’s Rudy Van Gelder! He says . . . did you write Basically Blues . . . yes I did . . . well Buddy Rich just recorded it. Where do we send the check?
It would not surprise me if in the next hundred years a future John Coltrane is a trombone player.
I gave my notice to Buddy and he said to me, ‘Kid . . . I’ll make sure you never work another day in your life.’ I made more money that first night in Vegas than I did for a week on Buddy’s band.