01. A Taste of Fresh Air (Collette) - 4:02; 02. Pickford Street (Collette) - 4:17; 03. Skater for Mater (Collette) - 3:27; 04. Blues (Collette) - 5:56; 05. Orfeo Negro (Bonfa) - 2:32; 06. Blues for ...

Another big band recording that was a long time coming but well worth the wait. Saxophonist Buddy Collette's twenty-member ensemble was taped in May 1990 during a concert at El Camino College in ...

William Marcell “Buddy” Collette has never been one to toot his own horn, but at 84 he’s making plenty of noise. A cornerstone of L.A.’s Central Avenue jazz scene during the ‘40s and ‘50s, the Watts ...

Jazz multi-instrumentalist Buddy Collette, the Central Avenue veteran who led the movement to merge L.A.’s racially segregated musicians unions and broke the studio color line, died Sept. 19 in Los ...

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