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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Doin' the Crazy Walk
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| 2. | Baby
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| 3. | Magnolia's Wedding Day
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| 4. | Dixie Cinderella
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| 5. | New St. Louis Blues
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| 6. | Here Comes My Blackbird
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| 7. | Can't We Get Together
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| 8. | I Can't Give You Anything But Love
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| 9. | Sweet Savannah Sue
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| 10. | Porgy
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| 11. | Diga Diga Doo
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Bourbon Street Parade
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| 2. | New Blues
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| 3. | Willy the Weeper
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| 4. | Mean Mistreater
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| 5. | Yama Yama Man
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| 6. | Old Man Mose
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| 7. | Mood Indigo
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| 8. | Bearcat Crawl
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| 9. | Lowland Blues
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| 10. | Panama Rag
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| 11. | Finale: Bourbon Street Parade/When the Saints Go Marching In
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| 3. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Bourbon Street Parade
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| 2. | Savoy Blues
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| 3. | Lonesome Road
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| 4. | The Sheik of Araby
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| 5. | Bill Bailey
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| 6. | You Took Advantage of Me
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| 7. | Sweet Sue
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| 8. | Moonshine Man
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| 9. | You Rascal You
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| 4. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Bugle Boy March
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| 2. | Pretty Baby
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| 3. | Majorca
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| 4. | Gerogia Grind
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| 5. | Rockin' in Rhythm
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| 6. | My Old Kentucky Home
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| 7. | Careless Love
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| 8. | Strange Things Happen Every Day
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| 9. | Mama Don't Allow It
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| 5. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | You Don't Understand
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| 2. | Tishomingo
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| 3. | Wild Cat Blues
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| 4. | Ugly Child
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| 5. | Everybody Loves My Baby
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| 6. | Careless Love
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| 7. | Papa de da Da
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| 8. | High Society
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| 9. | Whistlin' Rufus
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| 10. | Big House Blues
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| 11. | April Showers
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| 12. | One Sweet Letter from You
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| 13. | Hushabye
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| 14. | We Shall Walk Through the Valley
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| 6. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Thriller Rag
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| 2. | Texas Moaner
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| 3. | Sweet Georgia Brown
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| 4. | Bugle Call Rag
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| 5. | Petite Fleur
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| 6. | Wabash Bues
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| 7. | When the Saints Go Marching In
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| 8. | Olga
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| 9. | Old Rugged Cross
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| 10. | Bye and Bye
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| 11. | Pound of Blues
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| 12. | When You and I Were Young Maggie
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| 13. | Just a Closer Walk With Thee
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Jazz / Dixieland, Trad Jazz
Chris Barber - Bass, Arranger, Trombone, Personnel
Brian Rust Liner Notes
C. Williams Arranger
Denis Preston Engineer, Supervisor
Dickie Bishop Guitar, Banjo, Personnel
Eddie Smith Banjo, Personnel
Eric Tomlinson Balance Engineer
Graham Burbridge Drums, Personnel
Jim Bray Bass, Personnel
Lonnie Donegan Personnel, Banjo
Micky Ashman Bass, Personnel
Monty Sunshine Personnel, Clarinet
Ottilie Patterson Personnel, Vocals
Patrick Halcox Personnel, Trumpet
Paul Bevoir Design, Artwork
Ron Bowden Personnel, Drums
Spencer Leigh Liner Notes, Annotation
Steve Hammonds Project Coordinator
Although Chris Barber and his band had done some recording prior to moving to Pye Records, the period between 1955 and 1958 saw them record prolifically for the label both live and in the studio, as the popularity of both trad jazz and Barber specifically took off in the U.K. This six-CD box set contains everything Barber and his group did for Pye between 1955-1958, including no less than eight albums in their entirety. As a wrap-up package of an important part of Barber's career, it's definitive, with some newly penned historical liner notes by Spencer Leigh. For the record, four of these LPs -- Echoes of Harlem, Chris Barber in Concert, Chris Barber in Concert, Vol. 2, and Chris Barber in Concert, Vol. 3 -- are represented by one CD each (complete with original sleeve and liner notes) in this collection, while the four shorter 10" albums Barber cut for Pye are combined onto the final two discs. Like a good many box sets, it's way too much at once for many general fans, particularly as Barber's studied revivalism of early-20th century dixieland-style new orleans jazz didn't vary a whole lot during this period. It does, however, allow one to trace a slight evolution from the stiffer re-creations of the earliest studio recordings here through more swinging, energetic interpretations in the late '50s, particularly on the three live albums. "Petite Fleur," the Sidney Bechet tune that became Barber's only big British single (despite Barber himself not playing on the track), is here, though it didn't become a hit until more than two years after it was recorded as part of the Chris Barber Plays, Vol. 3 album. Lonnie Donegan, incidentally, only appears on the earlier of these sides (his last session with Barber was in March 1956), and then only on banjo, not on vocals. Also, Barber's future wife Ottilie Patterson only takes occasional vocal spots; most of the material's instrumental, though Barber himself takes a vocal now and then. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Chris Barber
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Apr 17, 1930 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Dixieland, Trad Jazz, Dixieland Revival
Trombonist and bandleader Chris Barber spearheaded the Anglo-European trad jazz movement during the late '50s and early '60s and devoted 60 years to the endless celebration of old-fashioned music. But that's only part of his story. Even as he presided over that transatlantic response to the Dixieland revival, Barber went out of his way to make music with U.S. blues legends Big Bill Broonzy, Brother John Sellers, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, James Cotton, and Sonny Boy Williamson II. This cross-pollination dramatically affected the lives and careers of budding British rockers such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Eric Burdon, Jimmy Page, and John Mayall.
Donald Christopher "Chris" Barber was born on April 17, 1930, in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, just north of London, England. After studying double bass and trombone at London's Guildhall School of Music, he assembled the King Oliver-inspired Barber New Orleans Band in 1949. In 1953 he co-founded a group called the Jazzmen with Ken Colyer, a cornetist who had just returned from New Orleans where he had worked with clarinetist George Lewis. In 1954 the group was rechristened Chris Barber's Jazz Band. Trumpeter Pat Halcox had begun what would amount to a 59-year commitment, banjoist/guitarist Lonnie Donegan now sang songs from the jazz, blues, and folk traditions, and Barber sometimes performed on the string bass while Beryl Bryden stroked a washboard.
Donegan and Barber are credited with having ignited the mid-'50s U.K. skiffle movement with a 1955 cover of Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line" that went gold on both sides of the Atlantic. Another of the band's chart-topping hits was its interpretation of Sidney Bechet's "Petite Fleur," a feature for clarinetist Monty Sunshine that led to the eventual rise of pop instrumentalist Acker Bilk. The year 1955 also saw the arrival of Barber's future wife, vocalist Ottilie Patterson, a blues-based performer who sang duets with Sister Rosetta Tharpe when the gospel/swing star sat in with the band in 1957. Barber's often surprisingly diverse lineup also included Jamaican saxophonists Joe Harriott and Bertie King.
In 1959 Barber went cinematic by generating music for Look Back in Anger, a film noir exercise in kitchen sink realism directed by Tony Richardson and starring Richard Burton as a violently misogynistic, emotionally disturbed confection peddler and part-time Dixieland trumpeter (dubbed by Pat Halcox). Barber made the first of many U.S. tours in 1959, bringing out of the woodwork African-American jazz veterans like pianist Hank Duncan, clarinetist Edmond Hall, trumpeter Sidney DeParis, and rhythm & blues pioneer singer/saxophonist Louis Jordan. Barber's 1960s discography includes air shots from the BBC radio archives and live recordings made in Budapest and East Berlin, with gospel and folk material enriching the already fertile ground of the band's repertoire. As the years passed, a gradually renamed Chris Barber's Jazz & Blues Band regularly employed blues and rock musicians, blurring the artificially imposed delineations between genres while offering music that was accessible to a wide range of listeners.
Barber spent a lot of time performing in Europe during the 1970s, and after the passing of Duke Ellington deliberately sought out some of Duke's key soloists in organist Wild Bill Davis, saxophonist Russell Procope, and singer/trumpeter/violinist Ray Nance. Throughout the 1980s Barber stayed faithful to his traditional and progressive instincts by teaming up with Louisiana singer, philosopher, and keyboardist Dr. John. Originally from backgrounds as different as could be, the two made several records together and toured a show called Take Me Back to New Orleans. The 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century found Barber carrying the torch of trad jazz into a sixth decade of creative professional activity, often expanding his group to include 11 players while consistently delivering music of unpretentious warmth and historic depth.
--- arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide |
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