norman granz had the great idea to record a studio album with two huge jazz drummers that were Kruppa gene (the master) and buddy rich (the pupil) in 1955 after their associations concerts JATP, surrounded of a team incredible musicians (thad jones, dizzy gillespie, roy Eldridge, joe newman, illinois backgammon, oscar peterson, ray brown, ...) the result is beautiful, five titles or jazzmen DEMONSTRATE their talent to start with a "buddy's blues "sets the tone with superb flights of trumpets, sax and a buddy rich solo huge swing, following" Bernie's Tune "or 2 drummers entertained for 7mins before the final crescendo of mutual bearings to bring musicians in the song, after "gene's blues" or Kruppa played without buddy is the last title on the disc more punchy, following "sweethearts on parade" with the buddy Ballais and "i never knew" with more gene markers to finish the album, 2 bonus tracks "sunday" "the monster" date for another session with musicians from Baisie count and only with a battery buddy rich and ben webster sax.un the largest summit jazz.pascal49
