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| Great Moments with... |
| Chris Barber |
első megjelenés éve: 1998
65 perc |
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| (1998)
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| 3.688 Ft
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| 1. | I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
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| 2. | Volga Boatman's Song
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| 3. | Perdido Street Blues
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| 4. | Jazz Holiday
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| 5. | Do What Ory Say
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| 6. | Dei Mir Bist du Schön
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| 7. | Bourbon Street Parade
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| 8. | Stevedore Stomp
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| 9. | Oh, Lady Be Good
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| 10. | Alligator Hop
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| 11. | Over in the Gloryland
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| 12. | We Sure Do Need Him Now
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| 13. | When the Saints Go Marching In
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| 14. | Take Me Back to New Orleans
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| 15. | Down by the Riverside
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| 16. | That's My Home
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Jazz / Dixieland, Country Comedy, Trad Jazz
Joost Leijen Photography
Like the previous CD in this covers series (Symphony Of Jazz), Great Moments with Chris Barber is a compilation of recordings rather than a set of new ones. It’s also one of a series of four “Great Moments” CDs from Timeless Records, the other three featuring Kenny Ball's Jazzmen, Acker Bilk, and Monty Sunshine’s Jazz Band.
Similar to the other CDs in the series, Great Moments With Chris Barber includes a selection of tracks (16 in all) from previous Barber CDs for the Timeless label, spanning a period of about a decade and a half, beginning with "Bourbon Street Parade" from Mardi Gras At The Marquee and ending with "That’s My Home", from the That’s It Then CD, with guest Acker Bilk.
While it might be inaccurate to label this collection “Chris Barber’s Greatest Hits”, nonetheless they do include many band favourites, some of which were recorded in concert before enthusiastic audiences, and some rare (if not unusual) tracks with the Uralsky All Stars and members of The Preservation Hall Band from New Orleans. In between you’ll find excellent versions of such Barber classics as "Stevedore Stomp", "Alligator Hop", and "Down By The Riverside".
All in all this is a very good introduction to fairly recent Barber music and should help fans new and old to choose other “full” CDs that they might wish to buy.
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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