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| 1. | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
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| 2. | My Gal Sal
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| 3. | Blues
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| 4. | Alexander's Ragtime Band
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| 5. | Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
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| 6. | Bogalusa Strut
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| 7. | See See Rider
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| 8. | Ti-Pi-Tin
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Jazz / New Orleans Jazz
Ken Colyer - Cornet
Goran Eriksson - Clarinet
Holger Gross - Banjo
Jens Lindgren - Trombone
Christer Landergren - Photography
This was Ken Colyer's final recording. By 1986 he no longer had his own regular group and his health was gradually declining (he would pass away less than two years later) but, when he was invited to play a jazz festival in Stockholm, the English trad trumpeter got along well musically and personally with the members of The Classic Jazz Band. A few months later he returned to Stockholm and privately taped one of their joint concerts. The balance of the instruments is a bit off with the horns generally low in the mix but the music is quite listenable. Ken Colyer's sparse lead (mostly short notes) leaves a lot of space in the ensembles and, although clarinetist Goran Erikson and trombonist Jens Lindgren are fine, the most impressive voice is actually drummer Cacka Ekhe whose colorful percussive sounds recall Baby Dodds. The pianoless sextet performs a variety of old standards and even if the music is not flawless and is occasionally rather aimless, New Orleans jazz fans should appreciate this historically significant music. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Ken Colyer
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Apr 18, 1928 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Died: Mar 08, 1988 in France
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Skiffle, Trad Jazz
As one of England's leading trad jazz exponents, Ken Colyer's influence would have been confined to his own country were it not for a spin-off that would inadvertently lead to great changes in the music world at large. Self-taught on trumpet and guitar, Colyer was a founding member of the Crane River Jazz Band (1949-1953), a New Orleans-styled band that he left in late 1951 in order to join the Merchant Marines with the intention of shipping out to New Orleans itself and jamming with local legends. Upon his return to England in March 1953, Colyer joined a group founded by Monty Sunshine and Chris Barber that soon became Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. As in the Crane River group, Colyer's shows included a "band within a band" segment that purported to educate audiences about the roots of jazz, playing a guitar-based, highly rhythmic mutation of American folk music that became known as skiffle. When Colyer left the Jazzmen in 1954, the group coalesced around Barber and its banjo player, Lonnie Donegan, who went on to have a hit skiffle record "Rock Island Line" that caught the imagination of a Liverpool youngster named John Lennon...and you know the rest of that story. Beginning in 1954, Colyer split his time between leading trad jazz groups as a trumpeter and skiffle groups as a guitarist, recording frequently for English Decca. Colyer's melodic Bunk Johnson-influenced lead trumpet gave his jazz bands a distinctive flavor of their own, while his skiffle groups had a "blacker" sound than those of most English skifflers, grounded in the Leadbelly 78s that Colyer brought back from New York when he was 19. Colyer's jazz band of the mid-'50s rivaled Barber's group as the leading British trad band of the day, featuring such sidemen as Acker Bilk, Ian Wheeler, and Mac Duncan. Colyer would lead bands in the '60s and '70s with time out for bouts with illness, running his own KC record label, appearing at his own club Studio 11, and returning in the early '80s at the helm of the All-Star Jazzmen.
--- Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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