To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

In the early fifties Rich played with Dorsey and began to perform with trumpeter Harry James an association which lasted until 1966. Well he knocked me right out.

Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30 1917 – April 2 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.