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| 1. | Do What Ory Say
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| 2. | Black Cat On a Fence
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| 3. | Yellow Dog Blues
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| 4. | Dr. Jazz
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| 5. | Sensation Rag
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| 6. | Dallas Blues
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| 7. | Hiawatha Rag
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| 8. | Blues for the Good Old Boys
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| 9. | The Girls Go Crazy
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| 10. | Silver Birches
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| 11. | Joy Avery's Piece
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| 12. | In the Gloaming
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| 13. | Trombonium
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Jazz
Sonny Morris (tp,vc (trk9))
Terry Giles (cl)
Bob Ward (tm,vc (trk 4,6,8,12))
Eric Webster (bj,gtr)
John Clark (pn)
John Sirett (bs)
Colin Bowden (dm)
On their previous album (LACD46) the Delta Jazz Band professed its aim to play in the spirit of the New Orleans musicians of the 1940s, 50s and early 60s whose music was encapsulated in "thin flat plastic". That theme is continued on this present album with respectful nods in the direction of several of the 'good old boys". That mainstay of jazz from its early days in New Orleans, Edward "Kid" Ory, Joe "King" Oliver, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis and others. Those then are the inspirations. Not slavish copies transcribed from the recordings of the records mentioned, but "tunes associated with" played in its own inimitable way by the Delta Jazz Band.
Sonny Morris & The Delta Jazz Band
Sonny Morris (trumpet, bandleader; born: November 16, 1928 in Hillingdon, Middlesex - Died: February 13, 2001 in Middlesex) was one of the pioneering figures in the New Orleans and Dixieland jazz revival movement. He was a founder member of the celebrated Crane River Jazz Band in 1949, which adopted its name from a modest river in Middlesex. He shared trumpet and cornet duties in the band with the doyen of New Orleans revivalism in Britain, Ken Colyer. He was born Leo Morris, and took up violin at seven. He played drums and bugle in the Boys Brigade, and joined the Household Cavalry at 18. He took up trumpet at the behest of his friend, banjo player and fellow Crane River band member Ben Marshall, who talked him into buying the instrument from a friend who had given up on jazz. He taught himself to play by ear, aided by Ken Colyer's wind-up gramophone and collection of 78s by Bunk Johnson, the raw, robust New Orleans trumpeter who had been rediscovered and enthroned as the figurehead of the New Orleansrevival on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Crane River group did not toe the strict New Orleans line quite rigidly enough for Colyer's purist taste, and he left the group in 1951 (eventually to make his way to New Orleans itself as a sailor in he merchant navy), leaving Morris as the principal trumpet in the band. He took over leadership of the group, and remained in that position until October, 1952, when he left for a short time. He reformed the band in 1953, and led it until 1956.
He worked with several other bands in the late 1950s, including those led by Cy Laurie and Terry Lightfoot, then reformed the Crane River band in 1961. The Crane River luminaries also included clarinetist Monty Sunshine and the Davies brothers, John R. T. and Julian, all of whom were notable contributors to traditional jazz in the UK.
The band ran more or less continuously until the late-1970s, including a reunion with the original members in 1972, which reconvened the twin-trumpet/cornet pairing of Morris and Colyer, and led to bookings in Europe throughout the decade.
Morris also played with Colyer in the latter's Omega Brass Band, which was said to be the first band outside Louisiana to recreate the authentic sound of a New Orleans marching band. The group achieved notoriety on many CND (Campiagn for Nuclear Disarmament) anti-war marches from Aldermaston in the late 1950s, although Morris always maintained they were not politically-motivated, but simply relished the chance to play.
Morris led a successor to the Crane River band, his Delta Jazzmen, in the 1980s and 1990s, and established the group as one of the country's best-known revival bands. |
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