Keep the Customer Satisfied (album)

Keep the Customer Satisfied is a 1970 live album by the Buddy Rich Big Band, recorded at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.[1]

Keep the Customer Satisfied
Live album by
Released1970
RecordedMarch 30-April 1, 1970
VenueTropicana Resort & Casino, Las Vegas
GenreJazz
Length43:36 (LP) 71:30 (CD)
LabelPacific Jazz
ProducerRichard Bock
Buddy Rich chronology
Buddy & Soul
(1969)
Keep the Customer Satisfied
(1970)
A Different Drummer
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Track listing edit

LP side A

  1. "Keep the Customer Satisfied" (Paul Simon) – 6:40
  2. "Long Day's Journey" (Don Piestrup) – 4:42
  3. Midnight Cowboy Medley: "He Quit Me Man"/"Everybody's Talkin'"/"Tears and Joys" Jeffrey Comanor) – 11:12

LP side B

  1. "Celebration" (Don Piestrup) – 3:35
  2. "Groovin' Hard" (Don Menza) – 5:25
  3. "The Juicer Is Wild" (Neil, Roger Neuman) – 4:32
  4. "Winning the West" (Bill Holman) – 7:30

Bonus tracks on CD re-issues:

  1. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:54
  2. "Happy Time" (Mike Hughes) – 3:57
  3. "The Nitty Gritty" (Lincoln Chase) – 4:07
  4. "Straight and Narrow" (Don Piestrup) – 4:17
  5. "Groovin' Hard" (Don Menza) – 5:54
  6. "Cornerstone" (Ted Pease) – 4:45

Personnel edit

The Buddy Rich big band
Production
  • Ron Wolin - cover design
  • Reice Hamel - engineer
  • Paul Wertheimer - liner notes
  • Joel Moss - mixing
  • Ron Waller - photography
  • Richard Bock - producer
  • Bob Belden - reissue producer, mixing
  • Dean Pratt - reissue producer

References edit

  1. ^ a b Keep the Customer Satisfied at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  • Liberty / Pacific Jazz LST 11006
  • Liberty LBS 83334
  • Blue Note 23999