  |
|
|
 |
|
CD |
| 5.075 Ft
|
|
| 1. | Chasing the Ace
|
| 2. | Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
|
| 3. | Tiger Rag
|
| 4. | Some of These Days
|
| 5. | 1919 Rag
|
| 6. | Blues Down South
|
| 7. | Milenbury Joys
|
| 8. | Creole Belles
|
| 9. | Sensation Rag
|
| 10. | The Onions
|
| 11. | London Blues
|
| 12. | I Want a Girl
|
| 13. | Hiawatha
|
| 14. | Maryland My Maryland
|
| 15. | Just a Little While
|
| 16. | The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
|
Jazz
Erik Silk (bjo)
Dennis Field, Alan Little John (tp)
Ken Shepherd (tb)
Don Simmons (cl)
Peter Rees (pno)
Lester Roberts (bs)
Tony Budd (dms)
Harry Lock (cl)
Ron Weatherburn (pno)
Colin Thompson (bs)
Pete Strange (tb)
Teddy Layton (cl)
Stan Lewis (dms)
This is the second of our CDs of recordings by Eric Silk & His Southern Jazz Band for the Esquire label. The details of the Eric Silk Story can be found on the previous release. This issue concludes the set. The Silk band recorded thirty-two titles for Esquire and the sixteen on LACD98 are completed by the sixteen here. LACD 98 started half way through (effectively titles 17 to 32). This one goes from the very first recordings in 1955 and covers just over a twelve month period.
Eric Silk & His Southern Jazz Band
Eric Silk formed his Southern Jazz Band in 1949 having previously played with John Haims'' Jelly Roll Kings. In 1951 they took up a residency at the Masonic Hall in Leytonstone which they called the Southern Jazz Club. (They later moved to the Ex-Servicemen''s Club next door) until 1973. Eric died from a heart attack on the 17th April 1982 at the age of 55. Eric Silk possessed a fanaticism of the kind found in other British Jazz musicians such as Ken Colyer. It was a pursuit of New Orleans music but, curiously, did not seem to be the same New Orleans music Colyer was striving for. Certainly there is an emphasis on collective ensemble playing rather than a showcase for individual prowess, but where Colyer based a lot of his music to the rougher quality of Bunk Johnson/George Lewis, Silk''s music was much more clean-cut, well drilled and to a large extent lacking surprise and "emotional" playing. What it does possess is a highly infectious, light, beat. There are probably no great stylists (although some were to go on to be as they matured as musicians) but it is the sum of the parts which has bestowed upon Eric Silk''s band a sort of cult following. Eric was a determined amateur: his view was that he would have to compromise (commercialise!) to turn professional. Because his musicians also had day jobs he turned down a lot of tours and work on the continent because he felt that if he put deps in "it wouldn''t be the same band". A far cry from the plethora of so called "telephone bands" which abound today. The band left behind a string of records from 1955 to 1966 mostly for the Esquire label. Today they can change hands for quite considerable sums of money. Throughout its life the band had some first rate musicians pass through its ranks. Most notably were pianist Ron Weatherburn (later with Kenny Ball) and Pete Strange (then only 18 years old, but now a member of Humphrey Lyttelton''s Band and one of the UK''s most accomplished jazz trombonists and arrangers). Trumpeter Dennis Field was with the band for most of its like, replaced by Phil Mason in the latter stages of the band. Dennis is still playing some fine trumpet, Phil Mason went on to join Max Collie and now runs one of the most successful bands in the UK (LAKE Records'' best selling band!). Another fine musician still going strong in Teddy Layton. One musician went the other way - drummer George Hopkinson had made his name with the early Humphrey Lyttelton band before joining Eric. George has recently emerged again. Eric himself had some varied interests: Bharata Natyam (Hindu temple dancing), Spanish Folk Music, Chinese Vases, Indian temple sculpture and Hungarian food. He eschewed anything modern: art, jazz, symphony music, (Ravel was too way out for him). In Jazz he cited Bechet and Jelly Roll Morton as particular favourites. How he defined New Orleans Jazz remains a bit vague to those of us listeng to his music. What is important is that he knew what he wanted, stuck to his principles and the results are remarkably consistent. - Paul Adams |
|
CD bolt, zenei DVD, SACD, BLU-RAY lemez vásárlás és rendelés - Klasszikus zenei CD-k és DVD-különlegességek |  | | Webdesign - Forfour Design |
|
|
