Errol Leslie Buddle (29 April 1928 – 22 February 2018) was an Australian

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musician.

Biography

Errol Buddle was born on 29 April 1928 and raised in

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. He first learned the banjo and mandolin. He began learning jazz after listening to a

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performance in 1944. Buddle attended the

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as well as the

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. Influenced by the sound of the bassoon in

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's ''

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'' and ''

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'', Buddle began playing the instrument. Over the course of his career, Buddle played fourteen reed instruments and several others. Buddle moved to Melbourne in 1946 and began playing the radio circuit. He relocated to Sydney by 1951 and performed weekly at the nightclub Chequers'. Buddle and Don Varella moved to

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, in 1952, where Buddle joined the

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. Buddle often performed in

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, Michigan, where he met and collaborated with

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and Johnnie Davis. Buddle also performed at the jazz club Klein's. The manager, George Klein, eventually asked Buddle to lead what later became the Errol Buddle Quartet. Buddle founded The Australian Jazz Quartet with

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and Dick Healey. The group served as the backing band to several musicians and later played throughout North America before touring Australia in 1958, then disbanded. Buddle performed occasionally thereafter, including a fusion band he formed with

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playing keyboards. He died at home in

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on 22 February 2018, aged 89.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Buddle, Errol 1928 births 2018 deaths Australian jazz saxophonists Australian male saxophonists Australian jazz bassoonists Australian multi-instrumentalists Australian jazz drummers Musicians from Adelaide Australian expatriates in Canada Australian expatriates in the United States Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni Australian male jazz composers The Australian Jazz Quartet members 20th-century Australian saxophonists