Buddy Tate discusses Peter Appleyard.

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Buddy Tate discusses embouchure.

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Buddy Tate discusses leaving the Basie Band.

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Q: “You always hear trumpet players – even younger ones – talking about their embouchure and about how hard [it is] and ‘gee, it’s off today’ and that kind of thing. You’ll rarely hear reed men saying anything about that…”

A: “No way, but our biggest problem was finding the right reed. The good ... that's it, then he go through boxes. I don't get into that, though, too much because it's a thing like with mouthpieces. Some people change mouthpieces all the time. That's the thing, it will hang you up the most, and reeds, I'll find one if he plays it really good. I may do a little doctoring on it and just go and try to forget it because you can go through a box a night and this one sounds a little better than that one and you come back to this one. No, I can't make that.