Above: Bud Gordon’s Unconventional Wisdom Sextet performs at Limbach Park in Monument. The song is ““Nam-myoho-renge–kyo” a funky blues written by Leonard Feather. (Video courtesy of Michael Schuette.)
Recordings of the Bud Gordon Quartet can be found here.
Below is a short clip of the Bud Gordon Sextet with Lila Mori performing “Boplicity” from the Birth of the Cool.
With Phil Allen‘s Thin Air Jazz band Bud has a flügelhorn solo on “Sneakin’ Up On Spring” HERE.
On Kim Ciara‘s The Somniloquist CD here.
With his Jazz/Funk/Latin Sextet Bud has performed at the Pikes Peak Jazz summer concerts the past 4 years in Cordera and at the Monument Summer Concert series at Limbach Park, and at the Salida Steam Plant’s Jazz on the Plaza series.
Here’s “Close Your Eyes” as arranged by Phil Allen:
Here’s some more from the Ray Charles tour of 1979 with the last few minutes of Austin City Limits, including a fun version of “Deep In The Heart Of Texas” and the quick version of “What’d I Say?”