Buddy Tate - Tate, Buddy : Texas TenorThe great Texas tenor delivers the goods on this 1978 quartet session featuring the same rhythm section of Wray Downes (piano), Dave Young (bass) and Pete Magadini (drums) that played with Don Menza on the reissue of Bones Blues (SAC 4004). Tate's first big break came in 1939 when at the age of 26 he joined the Count Basie band and took a killer solo on "Rock A Bye Basie". After ten years with Basie, Tate led his own band for a twenty year stint at

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We at Challenge are proud to present a new account of Goldberg Variations by critically acclaimed young pianist Hannes Minnaar