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| 1. | Bourbon Street Parade
Vocals: Chris Barber and Pat Halcox
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| 2. | Maple Leaf Rag
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| 3. | Alligator Hop
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| 4. | Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses
Vocals: Chris Barber and Pat Halcox
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| 5. | Mood Indigo
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| 6. | Isle of Capri
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| 7. | South Rampart Street Parade
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| 8. | Big Noise from Winnetka/Pitt's Extract
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| 9. | St. Louis Blues/Sax 'A' Bone
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| 10. | Immigration Blues
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| 11. | Wild Cat Blues
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| 12. | Tight Like That
Vocal: Chris Barber
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| 13. | High Society
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Jazz / Dixieland, Trad Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Trombone Jazz
Recorded:
Tracks 5 and 12: Whitley Bay (Playhouse), 2 December 1998
Tracks 1, 4 and 8: Warrington (Parr Hall), 3 December 1998
All other tracks: Croydon (Fairfield Hall), 11 December 1998
Chris Barber - trombone, bass, vocals;
Pat Halcox - trumpet, cornet, vocals;
John Crocker - clarinet, alto & tenor saxophone;
John Defferary - clarinet, tenor saxophone;
John Slaughter - guitar;
Paul Sealey - banjo, guitar;
Vic Pitt - bass;
Colin Miller - drums
Recorded by: Paul Adams
Produced by: Paul Adams, Chris Barber and Wim Wigt
Recording, Mixing and Production Master by: Paul Adams
Assistant Engineer: Richard Adams and Graham Bell
Grateful Thanks for technical assistance to Barry Walker
Art Direction/Design: Dolphin Design
Photography: Norbert Schinner, Joost Leijen
Liner Notes by: Gerard Bielderman and Chris Barber
From the CD booklet:
"Same procedure as every year" - December 1998. Touring in Britain as usual approaching Christmas. We were now introducing the newest members of the band, who had joined in August but had played with us on the Continent until mid-November. Our two new musicians are perhaps no stranger to many listeners as both have been playing 30-40 years. Drummer Colin Miller travelled the European scene until the middle sixties and then took up a position with Sony Music, returning to full time playing in 1995. Recently featured with the excellent "Muggsy Remembered" band he has a wealth of experience in our sort of jazz. Clarinet-tenor saxophonist John Defferary spent more of his playing life on the Continent (first with Trevor Richards and later with Papa Bue) than in England. He is a great enthusiast and always entertaining. Paul Adams, the enthusiastic drummer and head of Lake Records (UK), was keen to record the new personnel live just as he did during our tour with Acker Bilk in 1996. We hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as we all did recording it. - Chris Barber
A strong point of the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band has always been the steady personnel. For instance, between 1956 and 1964 there was only one change when Monty Sunshine left at the end of 1960 to be replaced by Ian Wheeler. The current line-up has been together since the summer of 1998 but before that there were no changes from mid-1994.
Chris Barber (trombone, string bass, baritone horn and vocals) started the band on 31 May 1954. His trumpeter-cornettist then was Pat Halcox who still is with the band in 1999! The rest of the band's current personnel now consists of John Crocker (clarinet, alto and tenor saxophones, who joined in June 1968), John Defferary (clarinet, tenor saxophone, who replaced Ian Wheeler in August 1998; before that time he did a 12-year stint with the famous Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band from Denmark); John Slaughter, who first was with the band between 1964 and 1978 and rejoined in August 1986; Paul Sealey (banjo, guitar; he replaced long-time member Johnny McCallum in the summer of 1994; bass player Vic Pitt (a member of Kenny Ball's Jazzmen between 1959 and 1977, then joined Chris Barber and never left); and drummer Colin Miller (he played for several years with Brian White's Magna Jazz Band before joining the Chris Barber Band in the summer of 1998).
On this CD one can hear the new line-up with their current repertoire. That means something old and something new. Of course the band opens the concert with their signature tune Bourbon Street Parade, followed by a very old ragtime number by Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag, which the band first played during 1962, then forgot until 1998. Alligator Hop goes back to King Oliver, whose band was the first inspiration for Chris Barber. Here the title is a feature for two clarinets. Cornbread, Peas And Black Molasses brings back memories of the time when Chris Barber brought the famous blues duo Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee to England (1958). The vocals here are done by Chris and Pat.
Mood Indigo and further in the programme Immigration Blues remind us once again of Barber's admiration for the old Duke Ellington Orchestra and the famous compositions from the twenties and thirties. As always Chris succeeds in bringing new life to Ellington titles as is especially well demonstrated in Immigration Blues. Isle Of Capri goes back to the days when Chris Barber was a member of Ken Colyer's Jazzmen (1953/1954) but which also proved to be a success at the concerts of the Chris Barber 1954 Reunion Band in 1994/1995. South Rampart Street Parade, made famous by Bob Crosby's Bob Cats in the late thirties, is played here completely as a collective improvisation without solos.
A show stopper at the band's concerts for some years now is Big Noise From Winnetka. This number originated 61 years ago in the Bob Crosby band. For Vic Pitt this title is a piece of cake: he played it way back in 1960 with Kenny Ball! The rest of the concert is filled with some titles which are already in the band's repertoire from nearly the beginning. St. Louis Blues is played here up-tempo and is a feature number for the three Johns in the band: a duet between the tenor saxophones of Crocker and Defferary plus some inspired blues guitar by Slaughter. Wild Cat Blues has always been in the band's repertoire since 1955 when it first was recorded by Monty Sunshine (cl), Chris Barber (b), and Lonnie Donegan (bj). These days it is a feature for two clarinets while Chris Barber plays Vic Pitt's string bass in the first half of the number.
The band ends the concert here with two of their old hits from the early days: Tight Like That, sung by Chris, and High Society, the famous test number for clarinetists, in this case for John Defferary. With these nearly 70 minutes of music you have an excellent reminder of a typical Chris Barber concert - Gerard Bielderman
This strong jazz-oriented date (which just has a touch of the blues in the title cut) is taken from a series of concerts by trombonist Chris Barber's band that took place in December 1998. The trad music includes such warhorses as "Bourbon Street Parade," "Mood Indigo," "Isle of Capri," "Wild Cat Blues," and "High Society." Barber, his longtime trumpeter Pat Halcox, and John Crocker and John Defferary on reeds have plenty of solo space and the pianoless octet is in typically spirited form. An excellent example of how Chris Barber's band sounded in the late '90s. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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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