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Buddy Rich in Miami

1958 live album by Buddy Rich

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ16245012 ↗
Source-derived summary

Buddy Rich in Miami is a 1958 Verve live album by Buddy Rich featuring Flip Phillips recorded at the Dream Bar of the Johnina Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida in 1957.

The album has been re-issued on CD alone and also, as Live in Miami with Flip Phillips, together with several additional tracks from a 1954 Rich/Phillips LA studio recording session with the Oscar Peterson Trio.

Track listing

Buddy Rich in Miami

"Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg)

"Topsy" (Edgar Battle, Eddie Durham)

"Undecided" (Leo Robin, Charlie Shavers)

"Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode)

"Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Basie) – 10:11

Live in Miami with Flip Phillips re-issue

"Lover, Come Back to Me"

"Topsy"

"Undecided"

"Broadway"

"Jumpin' at the Woodside

"Lemon Aid 21"

"I'll Never Be The Same"

"All of Me"

"I've Got the World on a String"

"Almost Like Being in Love"

"The Lady's in Love with You"

"Singing the Blues"

"Birth of the Blues"

Personnel

Buddy Rich in Miami / Live in Miami... (tracks 1–5)

Buddy Rich - drums

Flip Phillips - tenor saxophone

Ronnie Ball - piano

Peter Ind - double bass

Live in Miami...

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Buddy Rich in Miami” as 1958 live album by Buddy Rich. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1957, 1954—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958. The account is most persuasive where Buddy, Rich and Miami can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1958 live album by Buddy Rich. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16245012. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1957 and 1954.

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This entry incorporates text from “Buddy Rich in Miami” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.