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Jazz
Chris Barber Band - Liner Notes
Dave Travis - Compilation, Liner Notes
The long standing British love and fascination with Jazz can almost certainly be traced back to the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in London in 1919, for a tour of Variety Theatres along with a nine month residency at the Hammersmith Palais. The ODJB returned to New York in 1920 leaving behind a fire for jazz that has never been extinguished. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, countless British Bands and Orchestras featured the latest and hottest Jazz tunes coming in from the USA. Top names such as Ambrose, Roy Fox, Jack Hylton and Harry Roy featured Jazz in their Night Club Shows and during their hugely popular BBC Radio broadcasts. A number of American Jazz musicians such as Adrian Rollini and Sylvester Ahola where also ‘imported’ during this era, with their talents being exploited to the full by the local record companies and various Band leaders. Understandably, British musicians drank in all the knowledge they could from these original exponents of Jazz. During this period, the leaders of the post World War 2 British Jazz revival were born and were undoubtedly influenced in their early years by these original Jazz and Big Band musicians both British and American.
Chris Barber was born in Welwyn Garden City in 1930. His early years saw him learning to play forceful, but subtle and highly disciplined trombone, as well as very solid double bass. With a natural ability for composing and arranging, as well as a flair for leadership, Barber formed his first band in 1948, recording early on in 1951 for Carlo Krahmer’s Esquire label as Chris Barber’s Washboard Wonders. In March 1953 Ken Colyer returned from his legendary visit to New Orleans and was offered the leadership of the Barber band, which he accepted. However, this was only due to last a matter of months as Barber and Colyer had a different agenda as to how Jazz should be played and presented. Colyer left and reformed, whilst the band became Chris Barber’s Jazz Band once again, bringing in Pat Halcox on trumpet in 1954. With Monty Sunshine on clarinet, Lonnie Donegan on banjo, guitar and vocals, Jim Bray on bass and Ron Bowden on Drums, this would come to be regarded as the classic Barber Band.
This double CD, in contrast to other material on the market, is the definitive collection of Chris Barber’s best work from the immediate post war period up to 1958. Undoubtedly the greatest
Trad - Jazz period in the UK, this double set, beautifully mastered, will appeal not only to the jazz aficionados, but also to the broader public who still remember the post war years with a nostalgic gleam in their eyes. |
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