Buddyrich

Flip Phillips and his Orchestra, featuring: Charlie Shavers, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Barney Kessel, Buddy Rich, Max Roach.
It is interesting that one of the selections in this “Swinging With Flip” album is entitled “Salute to Pres”. Although Flip Phillips is not at all similar to Lester “Pres” Young in style or concept he certainly is aware of the debt all modern saxophonists owe to “Pres” - hence the title; it’s an original, of course, by Flip himself, one of two in this collection.
The other Phillips original is “Blues for the Midgets” (and just where this title came from no one is quite sure). There is in the playing of Flip Phillips a genuine puckishess which might well be expressed in writing a blues for midgets (whose blues are no different than anyone else’s)…