''Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds'' is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer

Buddy Collette William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (August 6, 1921 – September 19, 2010) was an American jazz flutist, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He was a founding member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Early life William Marcel Collette was born in ...

recorded at sessions in 1958 and released on the

EmArcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown ...

label.Mercury Records Catalog: EmArcy 36100 series
accessed June 2, 2015 The group features a front line of four flautists.

Reception

The

Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the dat ...

site rated the album with 3 stars.Allmusic listing
accessed June 2, 2015

Track listing

''All compositions by Buddy Collette except as indicated'' # "Pony Tale" (Paul Horn) - 2:28 # "Machito" (Pete Rugolo) - 3:25 # "Short Story" - 3:54 # "Flute Diet" - 4:33 # "Improvisation (With Conga)" (Rugolo, Bud Shank, Collette, Horn, Harry Klee) - 4:45 # "The Funky Shepherds" (Shank) - 4:53 # "Tasty Dish" - 4:23 # "Improvisation (Unaccompanied)" (Rugoo, Shank, Collette, Horn, Klee) - 2:14 # "The Four Winds Blow" (Horn) - 3:37 *Recorded at Master Recorders in Hollywood on March 5 (tracks 1-4) and March 7 (tracks 5-9), 1958

Personnel

, Paul Horn, Harry Klee,

Bud Shank Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and thr ...

- flute,

piccolo The piccolo ( ; Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" the modern piccolo has similar fingerings as the standard transverse flute, but the s ...

* Bill Miller -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

Joe Comfort Joe Comfort (July 18, 1917 – October 29, 1988) was an American jazz double bassist. Biography His mother was born in Mississippi and played the organ during black and white silent movies. His father, George Comfort from Natchez Mississippi tau ...

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gu ...

*Bill Richmond -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

, congas *

Pete Rugolo Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American jazz composer, arranger and record producer. Life and career Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settl ...

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestra ...

References

{{Authority control EmArcy Records albums Buddy Collette albums 1958 albums