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| 1. | Double Check Stomp
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| 2. | Here Comes My Blackbird
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| 3. | I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
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| 4. | Over the Waves
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| 5. | Everybody Loves My Baby
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| 6. | Whistlin' Rufus
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| 7. | Can't We Get Together
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| 8. | Good Time Tonight
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| 9. | High Society
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| 10. | Bobby Shaftoe
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| 11. | Just a Little While to Stay Here
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| 12. | Oration by Chris Barber
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| 13. | Just a Closer Walk With Thee
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| 14. | When the Saints Go Marching In
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| 15. | At the Jazzband Ball
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| 16. | Good Queen Bess
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| 17. | Easter Parade
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| 18. | The Isle of Capri
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| 19. | Wabash Blues
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| 20. | The Sheik of Araby
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| 21. | Goin' Home
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| 22. | The Old Rugged Cross
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| 23. | Too Busy
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Jazz / Dixieland, Trad Jazz
TTD 517
Tracks 1-10: Side 1: Soundtrack film "Holiday"
Recorded: 29/31 December, 1956, London
Patrick Halcox Trumpet
Chris Barber Trombone
Monty Sunshine Clarinet
Eddie Smith Banjo
Dick Smith Bass
Ron Bowden Drums
Tracks 11-14: Side 2: New Orleans Ceremony
Recorded: 8 May, 1984, London
Patrick Halcox Trumpet
Chris Barber Trombone
John Crocker Sax (Tenor)
Ian Wheeler Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
Vic Pitt Tuba
Johnny McCallum Drums (Snare)
Norman Emberson Drums (Bass), Drums
Track 15
Recorded: 30 October, 1984, London
Patrick Halcox Trumpet
Chris Barber Horn (Baritone), Trombone, Trumpet
John Crocker Sax (Tenor)
Ian Wheeler Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
Johnny McCallum Banjo, Guitar
Roger Hill Guitar
Vic Pitt Bass
Norman Emberson Drums
Track 16
Recorded: 28 November, 1954, Civic Hall, Lichfield
As track 15 with dr. John - piano added.
TTD 518
Tracks 17-20: Side 3
Tracks 21-23: Side 4
Recorded: 23 April, 1984, The Dome, Brighton
except track 18 & 19: 8 March, 1984, Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Ken Colyer Vocals, Trumpet
Chris Barber Trombone
Monty Sunshine Clarinet
Johnny McCallum Banjo
Roger Hill Guitar
Vic Pitt Bass
Norman Emberson Drums
Wim Wigt Producer
Music: Wabash Blues, featuring solos by Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine, and a short excerpt from Goodtime Tonight, vocal by Ottilie Patterson
The music on this double album spans approximately thirty years, although it is a sampling of material recorded more or less at two separate points in the Barber Band's history rather than a continuous snapshot of music over a three-decade period.
The first part, recorded in the last days of 1956, shortly after Eddie Smith joined the band on banjo, is made up of the soundtrack from a publicity film, Holiday, complete with narration by the actor Robert Shaw. There are ten short tunes, all but one being re-recordings of tracks recorded and commercially released by the band over the preceding two years. The exception is a lovely song by Ottilie Patterson and the band, "Goodtime Tonight". This deleted double-LP, or the slightly different CD version, is worth searching for if only for this one track.
But that's not all, by any means. We also have a number of studio recordings by the 1984 band, with fresh approaches to old standards ("Just A Little While To Stay Here" and "Just A Closer Walk With Thee"), plus a couple of concert recordings by the same lineup at roughly the same time, with Dr. John guesting on "Good Queen Bess."
Sides 3 and 4 of the LP consist of seven tracks (unfortunately, not all of them on the CD) recorded in concert in Brighton and Croydon during the early months of 1984. Here, the front-line is a reunion of the Ken Colyer Jazzmen of 1953-54, with Colyer on trumpet and vocals, Barber on trombone, and Monty Sunshine on clarinet. It's wonderful to hear these seasoned musicians playing together once again with such joy and enthusiasm, backed by the "new" rhythm section of Johnny McCallum (banjo), Roger Hill (guitar), Vic Pitt (bass), and Norman Emberson (drums).
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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