Time Check - Eric meets Buddy Rich - BIMHUIS, Amsterdam, 2023.

Amsterdam drummer Eric Schuijt always dreamt about playing the ‘Buddy Rich Big Band’ songs. So he studied Buddy’s music and listened in detail to songs that Buddy Rich made famous. Eric meticulously looked at the breaks and the techniques and studied for hours in his drum studio along an Amsterdam canal. After two years he formed the Eric meets Buddy Rich Big Band and gave a concert at the renowned BIMHUIS in Amsterdam. This song is Time Check. The arrangement was written by Don Menza in 1973 and recorded by the Buddy Rich Big Band for the Roar of ‘74! album. At the end there is a short drumsolo. As (another) tribute to drummer Neil Peart Eric plays -for drummers- a well known 5/4 pattern from the Rush song YYZ. Time Check: Solo’s by Werner Janssen, Nils Attermeyer, Jelle Janswaard, Loet van der Lee, Lourens van der Zwaag Drums: Eric Schuijt Musical director/conga’s, flute: Gerrit-Jan Binkhorst Piano: Tico Pierhagen Bass: Dave Breidenbach Trumpet: Loet