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| 1. | Whistling Rufus
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| 2. | Big House Blues
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| 3. | April Showers
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| 4. | One Sweet Letter From You
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| 5. | Hushabye
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| 6. | We Shall Walk Through The Valley
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| 7. | Thriller Rag
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| 8. | Texas Moaner
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| 9. | Sweet Georgia Brown
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| 10. | Bugle Call Rag
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| 11. | Petite Fleur
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| 12. | Wabash Blues
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| 13. | A Smooth One
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| 14. | Railroad Bill
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| 15. | The Ballad Of Jesse James
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| 16. | Ol' Riley
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| 17. | Lost John
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| 18. | Stewball
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| 19. | Stackalee
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| 20. | Doin' My Time
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| 21. | Where Could I Go?
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| 22. | Can't You Line 'Em?
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| 1. | Bourbon Street Parade
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| 2. | New Blues
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| 3. | Willie The Weeper
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| 4. | Mean Mistreater
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| 5. | Yama Yama Man
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| 6. | Ol' 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. | Bourbon Street/When The Saints
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Jazz
CD1
Tracks 1-13: Chris Barber's Jazz Band
Tracks 14-19: Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group
Tracks 20-23: The Chris Barber Skiffle Group
CD 2: Chris Barber's Jazz Band
Chris Barber
Featuring
Monty Sunshine
Pat Halcox
Ottilie Patterson
Dickie Bishop
Lonnie Donegan
Johnny Duncan
DOUBLE CD FOR THE PRICE OF ONE Complete recordings featuring Chris Barber from 1956 in one collection (Ottilie Patterson's under her own name are on LACD244). Jazz & Skiffle featuring Monty Sunshine, Lonnie Donegan, Dickie Bishop, Johnny Duncan
LPs and EPs recorded in 1956; Reissued on a double-CD in June 2007 on Lake Records LACD 246.
Chris Barber 1956 is the second CD in a (so far) two-part series of re-issue discs from Lake Records, each charting a year in the band’s early recording history (the previous CD was Chris Barber 1955).
In actuality, I suppose one should say these are the second and third in the series, because Chris Barber 1956 is a 2-CD set (for the price of one!) that contains the entire recorded output of the Barber Band on the Pye/Nixa label in 1956, with the exception of some Ottilie Patterson tracks, which have also recently been re-released by Lake (That Patterson Girl).
Going by the personnel, there are essentially three sets of recordings in the set: 24 by Chris Barber's Jazz Band, six by Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group, and four by the Chris Barber Skiffle Group. The band pieces originally appeared on three LPs: Chris Barber Plays, Volumes 2 and 3, and the first of the Chris Barber In Concert series. Most of the skiffle sessions were released on "feature" EPs.
All of the tracks have been previously re-released on one CD or another, but it’s nice to have this more or less chronological package of recordings from a single year, not least because it gives a clear picture of changes in the rhythm section over this short period. Bass player Micky Ashman left in April, being replaced by Dick Smith, who was to remain in the band for the next decade, while in 1956 the band had three banjo players: Lonnie Donegan to begin with but who left to take advantage of his growing fame from the success of Rock Island Line, then Dick Bishop for a few months, and finally Eddie Smith who, like Dick, stayed around until the mid-1960s.
I seem to say this with each successive new CD from Lake Records, but as usual the packaging is superb, with detailed personnel lists and recording dates, informative notes by producer Paul Adams, and several contemporary photographs.
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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