Buddy Collette

Aliases: Buddy Collette and His Trio
Buddy Collette and The Poll Winners
Buddy Collette Quartet & Quintet
The Buddy Collette Quintet
Buddy Collette Quintet
Buddy Collette and The Swinging Shepherds
Real name: William Marcel Collette
Born: August 6, 1921
Died: September 19, 2010
Country: United States
IPI: 00006521813 3 works
00006522320 3 works
Affiliation: ASCAP
Comments: Tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist. Collette was a civil rights pioneer, fighting to desegregate the musician's union in Los Angeles. He was also the first African American musician to perform in a television studio band, appearing in the early 1950s on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life".
Member of: James Bond and His Sextet

Releases

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
Ad Lib	Red Norvo featuring Buddy Collette	1957	Liberty
A Tribute to Eric Dolphy	Joe Rosenberg's Affinity with Buddy Collette	1996	Music & Arts
At the Cinema!	Buddy Collette and The Swinging Shepherds	1959	Mercury
Calm, Cool & Collette	Buddy Collette and His Trio	1957	ABC-Paramount
Everybody's Buddy	Buddy Collette Quartet & Quintet	October 1958	Challenge [US1]
Flute Fraternity	Herbie Mann - Buddy Collette	1957	Mode Records
Marx Makes Broadway	Dick Marx / Buddy Collette	1958	Omega Disk
Nice Day with Buddy Collette	Buddy Collette	1957	Contemporary
Porgy and Bess	Buddy Collette and The Poll Winners	1959	Interlude Records
The Buddy Collette Quintet with Guest Vocalist Irene Kral	The Buddy Collette Quintet with Irene Kral	1990	Studio West
Warm Winds	Kynard & Collette	June 1964	World Pacific