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Misty Morning
Chris Barber & Bob Hunt
holland
első megjelenés éve: 2001
74 perc
(2001)

CD
5.038 Ft 

 

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Kosaramba teszem
1.  Misty Morning
2.  Harlem Rag
3.  Isle of Capri
4.  Take the "A" Train
5.  Mood Indigo
6.  It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing
7.  Creole Love Call
8.  The Jeep is Jumping
9.  Snag it
10.  C Jam Blues
11.  When the Saints Go Marching in
Jazz / Dixieland, Traditional Jazz

Recorded: December 11, 2000, Hanley

Chris Barber, Bob Hunt (trombone)
Pat Halcox, Mike Henry (trumpet), John Crocker (clarinet, alto sax), John Defferary (clarinet, tenor sax), Nick Payton (clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax), Paul Sealey (banjo, guitar), John Slaughter (guitar), Vic Pitt (bass), Colin Miller (drums)

It's probably best to think of Misty Morning as a sort of transitional CD. It was recorded after the last of the recordings made solely by the eight-piece band (Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses: Timeless CDTTD628) but almost a year before the band permanently expanded to the eleven-piece Big Chris Barber Band (its first CD being The First Eleven). For the Misty Morning CD the regular band was augmented by three members of Bob Hunt's Ellingtonians: Bob himself on trombone, Mike "Magic" Henry on trumpet, and Nick Payton on reeds. Bob and Mike joined permanently when the Big Chris Barber Band was formed a year after this CD was recorded.

This was an exciting time for the Barber band. As Paul Adams points out in his typically interesting and informative notes, the arrangements were changing almost daily as new opportunities offered by a seven-man front line were explored. All of the tunes on the CD had been recorded at least once before -- some of them, such as "When The Saints Go Marching In", many times -- although we have to go back more than fifty years to the pre-Colyer Barber band for the only previous recording of the title track. However, all of the arrangements are fresh and there seems to be a renewed vigour in the band reflected in every tune.

All in all Misty Morning is an excellent CD foretelling some of the exciting music to come from the Big Chris Barber Band.


Accolades for an English musician don't come more exotic than a description of Chris Barber as the "Bix Beiderbecke of British-style jazz" - this, from the pen of musicologist David Boulton back in 1958.

Not that this kind of plaudit about Barber is confined to the past, nor to the jazz world: for instance, this year's UK Blues Guitarist of the Year, Stan Webb, told the BBC "My first thing I heard about anything to do with British blues? I loved Chris Barber, and have done to this day. He actually has graced the stage with me at the Marquee many years ago." And staying in the world of blues, the recently published reference work Blues-Rock Explosion emphasises how "Chris Barber, Alexis Korner, Lonnie Donegan and Cyril Davies... .these were the real founding fathers of what became the British 1960s blues-rock explosion."

Both of these quotes expose an obscured truth about Barber and his Jazz and Blues Band: namely, that without the man who next year celebrates 50 years as a pro band leader, not only would British trad jazz have taken many more years to evolve - but also the British blues and rock scene would not have exploded in the way that it did. Which partly explains why a blues-rocker such as Stan Webb (founder of Chicken Shack) has such good and vivid memories of jamming with Chris at the legendary Marquee club. Other bluesmen who have shared a stage with him include Muddy Waters, Louis Jordan, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

The Marquee's legend - to anyone aged under sixty - is linked to the rise of bands such as the Who, Rolling Stones and Sex Pistols. But here lies another overlooked truth: the Marquee started out in 1958 as a jazz club in which Barber, as a founding director, pooled his music business experience alongside the Marquee's then new owner (and seasoned jazz promoter) Harold Pendleton.

Pendleton (an accountant) and Barber (a trainee actuary) met, quite by chance, on Harold's very first day in London in 1948. As well as establishing the Marquee, in 1961 together they initiated the National Jazz & Blues Festival which eventually grew into the Reading Rock Festival.

Soon after meeting Pendleton Barber quit his job, instead to study trombone and double-bass at the Guildhall School of Music. This was an astute choice of instruments for a trad jazz devotee because in the very earliest New Orleans jazz outfits such as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band the trombone was known as a "blown bass" - its main function being to stress rhythmic accents. Chris's fate had already been sealed when he bought a second-hand trombone from Harry Brown (of theHumphrey Lyttleton Band) at London's Leicester Square Jazz Club Months later Barber formed his first band.

Returning to the here and now, Barber's encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz recently was heard by Monday night listeners to BBC Radio 2's Jazz Diaries. Chris's soon-to-be-continued series each week focused on a notable year in 20th century jazz with the music of cutting-edge artists of the day. But what listeners to the weekly show may not have realised is that Barber's between-disc commentary was 'off-the-cuff '. In other words, the myriad facts and info came from his head - not a programme researcher and a word-for-word script.

Right now in March 2002, the Big Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band is out on the road in its brand-new eleven-piece form (Bob Hunt joins on trombone; Mike Henry on trumpet& Tony Carter on clarinet, alto and baritone saxes) The 'VIP's of Jazz' tour - also featuring the Dutch Swing College Band and Pasadena Roof Orchestra - has visited 22 British concert halls before the band moved on to Europe on its own. And as this tour plays to full houses, Barber already contemplates a theme for next year's 50th anniversary tour. If all goes according to plan, the year 2003 will in some ways echo that especially exciting episode back in 1958 when Chris Barber's Jazz Band backed Chicago blues legend Muddy Waters and his thunderous boogie pianist Otis Spann on Muddy's first visit to the UK in 1958. The link between then and now is expected to be Big Bill Morganfield - son of the late Muddy Waters and a consummate blues performer himself. Chris hopes that Big Bill will join him for the anniversary tour.

Another subtext to that 50th Anniversary tour will be that Barber has been around and making music for over half of the entire history of recorded jazz. His kind of jazz, he once explained to Philip Clark, is as follows: "The technical name for what we play is 'revived archaic jazz'. We have been accused of cleaning the music up, but we simply play it with right notes and chords."

Maybe there is some modesty at work here because already back in 1958 David Boulton, for one, regarded Barber as more than just a revivalist or imitator of music from "the Crescent City". One reason why Boulton drew a comparison with Bix Beiderbecke was because he felt that in less than ten years as a band leader Barber's "imitation developed until it could exist in its own right. Whether or not this British style will eventually be considered of any permanent value is for a later generation to decide."

Over forty years on, it looks like they have decided - at least judging by ticket sales on the 'VIP's of Jazz' tour.

Positively dripping with 1950s' jingoism, Boulton then concludes: "The Englishness which permeates the music of Purcell, Boyd, Sullivan, Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams will find its way into jazz, do what we can to prevent it. And Britons never shall be squares."

During the 1940s, the British jazz movement split into three: New Orleans revivalists such as pianist George Webb and trumpeter Humphrey Lyttleton (with Barber and Ken Colyer close behind); modern jazz players like Johnny Dankworth and Ronnie Scott, who took their lead from American bebop greats such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie; and, thirdly, more of a cult following started off by trumpeter Freddie Randall who was influenced by white Chicago-school jazzman Muggsy Spanier.

Jazz caught on very fast in Britain during the late-1940s and early-1950s. Why ? Well, for a start its presentation live on stage was energetic and entertaining compared to 1940s dance bands whose players were catatonic by comparison, being mostly sat down and hidden behind music stands.

And one of many trad bands that emerged alongside Barber's then amateur outfits (called the New Orleans Jazz Band or Chris Barber's 'Washboard Wonders' when he was playing string bass) was the Crane River Jazz Band featuring clarinettist Monty Sunshine and trumpeter Ken Colyer. Along with banjo player Lonnie Donegan, these were the musicians who teamed up with Chris Barber in 1953.

Chris now remembers taking the big step to go pro: "At the time Monty was leading the last remnants of the Crane River Jazz Band.His band,like my band was playing once a week and the trouble with that is you never learn from the mistakes you make on stage because a week later you've forgotten you made them. So we thought, this is stupid - the only way to progress was to pool our resources and play the music professionally."

With Monty Sunshine, Lonnie Donegan, and Jim Bray and Ron Bowden respectively on bass and drums, the first Barber band was born, and its instrumentation did not feature either piano or trumpet -largely because they didn't know one of either who really shared their aim of becoming professional but,as Chris explains: "Without piano and trumpet, the rhythm section is more exposed and obviously this influences not only the band's sound but also the arrangements." So as band leader, Barber was drawn to material such as George Lewis's "Ice Cream" and records by the Mezz Mezzrow-Tommy Ladnier Quintet, as well as adapting standard material by King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.

Nonetheless, early on a trumpeter was brought in. Twentythree-year old Pat Halcox - still with Barber's band to this day - joined for a short spell before having to resume his studies. His departure came right around the time that Ken Colyer returned from his infamous seaman's holiday to New Orleans. Barber wrote to Colyer inviting him to join. (Ken's trip had earned him crowd-pulling kudos - he jumped ship from the merchant navy in New Orleans and there shared the stage with American legends such as George Lewis before visa problems got him banged up in jail and then deported.) Regular appearances at hot venues such as the Bryanston Street Jazz Club near Marble Arch soon gave this outfit a big following - they were known as Ken Colyer's Jazzmen.

But not for long. Within a year Colyer's drinking and volatile temperament brought tensions within the band to busting point; a bid by Ken to sack the rhythm section backfired - because the band was run as a co-operative - and instead it was the hapless trumpeter who found himself left out in the cold and without a gig. ( Colyer soon formed a band that included future trad jazz pop star Acker Bilk).

Pat Halcox re-joined - this time for good - and the distinctive sound and musicianship of this, the original Chris Barber Jazz Band, is best heard on the 1955 album Echoes of Harlem (reissued on Lake LACD87). It opens with a rare Ellington composition and goes on to be a fascinating retrospective of the musical life of Harlem in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

It was this early version of the band that catapulted banjo and guitar player Lonnie Donegan to stardom as a solo artist: Donegan recorded his first version of 'Rock Island Line' with Chris's band a couple of years before it was released as a single in 1956 and then became the hit that augured the skiffle craze. Skiffle was mostly mocked by trad jazz purists, but this never deterred Barber from giving it a slot in his show.

Donegan was replaced by Dickie Bishop on banjo. Vocalist Ottilie Patterson also proved to be a big asset to Barber's show, especially so her engaging duets performed with visiting American gospel blues diva, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, in the late 1950s.

In the early-1960s skiffle and trad jazz were eclipsed by the beat group boom - which skiffle had helped to bring about in the first place. Barber remained unshaken: his own BBC programme 'Trad Tavern' kept up his profile and meant he played along with a wide range of guests such as Joe Harriot, Archie Semple, and Tony Coe. Ian Wheeler - who replaced Monty Sunshine - and electric guitarist John Slaughter updated Barber's sound. The band continued to tour America and impress their counterparts in the home of jazz.

By the 1970s - as jazz musicians such as Miles Davis enjoyed popularity amongst rock audiences - Chris too incorporated rock influences into his band's sound. Proof of this can be found on the three-CD set The Outstanding Album (Bell Records BLR 89 300).

One track could have come from Miles Davis's canon and nevertheless sat comfortably alongside re-working of Barber Band favourites such as 'Ice Cream' and 'Jeep's Blues'.

It was also during the 1970s that Chris explored Balkan folk music with its lilting and asymmetrical rhythms, and in his composition 'Ubava Zabava' fused it with the blues. Other 1970s shows included tours with John Lewis and Trumy Young in Swing is Here (CD BL5 17), as well as Russell Procope and Will Bill Davis. The magic of the resultant Echoes of Ellington tour is captured on two CDs (CD TTD 555 & 556).

Most notable during the 1980s was Barber's 'Take Me To New Orleans' tour with Dr John, as well as a collaboration with the East German State Radio Concert Orchestra in Berlin that featured orchestrations of New Orleans' classics (New Orleans Overture andConcerto for Jazz Trombone and Orchestra - TTD 610). In 1995 Barber staged a skiffle reunion UK tour with Lonnie Donegan and Dickie Bishop as special guests.

Back in the 21st century, the three recent additions to the lineup make up a big Chris Barber Band that still features Pat Halcox on trumpet, John Slaughter on guitar, Vic Pitt on bass and John Crocker on clarinet, sax and flute. Clarinettist John Defferary replaced Ian Wheeler in 1998; Paul Sealey plays banjo and guitar; and Colin Miller is on drums.

Of course, band leader Chris Barber's trombone slides on, and Dixieland jazz remains central to his work. The reason, Barber explains, is the unselfishness of the music: "I think that there is simply more to Dixieland jazz than modern. The ensembles are very complex and you have to be listening completely unselfishly all the time."

Misty Morning - a CD featuring Chris Barber and Bob Hunt (TTD 641) was recorded by the augmented band as they performed their touring presentation of Duke Ellington's music,of which Bob Hunt is an acknowledged expert... When Chris began incorporating the extra three musicians into parts of the bands normal varied repertoire, the results were so exciting that the band all felt there was no alternative to permanently becoming an 11-piece band... the most recent recording of Chris's new organisation..the "Big Chris Barber Band" is a product of their understanding of the unselfish nature of ensemble playing and contains most of the best pieces in their new repertoire..It is, of course, on Timeless and is called "the First Eleven"
---PHILIP CLARK & MARTIN CELMINS.



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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