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The BIG Chris Barber Band,
Chris Barber & Bob Hunt (trombones)
Pat Halcox & Mike Henry (trumpets)
John Defferary (clarinet, bassett horn & tenor sax)
Tony Carter (clarinet, alto & baritone saxes and flute)
Trevor Whiting (clarinet, alto & tenor sax)
Vic Pitt (bass)
John Slaughter (guitar)
Paul Sealey (banjo & guitar)
Colin Miller (drums)
alto sax on "Battersea Rain Dance" by John Crocker
The Chris Barber Band & the new six-piece version:
Chris Barber (trombone)
Pat Halcox (trumpet)
John Defferary (clarinet)
Vic Pitt (bass)
Paul Sealey (banjo)
Colin Miller (drums)
Track Listing:
1. Blue Blood Blues 1:45 (Morton) Southern Music - spoken intro by Ken Colyer
to:
2. Slow Drag Blues 3:33 (Sunshine) Carlin
3. Merrydown Rag 3:18 (Barber) Music Box Publications/Paul Rodriguez Music
4. Chimes Blues 3:43 (Oliver arr. Barber) Music Box Publications/Paul Rodriguez
Music
5. Carolina Moon 3:39 (Burke/Davis) L. Wright
6. Misty Morning & Jungle Nights In Harlem 5:29 (Ellington/Whetsol) Belwin
Mills & (Ellington) EMI Harmonies Ltd. medley arr. Bob Hunt
7. The Spell Of The Blues 3:06 (Johnston/Dreyer/Ruby) Francis Day & Hunter;
Redwood arr. Bob Hunt
8. Freeze And Melt 2:40 (Fields/McHugh) Lawrence Wright; EMI Music Publishing
arr. Bob Hunt
9. All Blues 6:17 (Davis) Sony ATV arr. Bob Hunt
10. Battersea Rain Dance 5:28 (Barber) Radio Music (Britain) Ltd/MCA arr. Bob
Hunt
11. Devaluation Blues 5:36 (Barber) Music Box Publications/Paul Rodriguez Music
arr. Bob Hunt
12. Jubilee Stomp 2:32 (Ellington) EMI Harmonies
13. Black & Tan Fantasy & The Mooche 7:33 (Ellington/Miley) L Wright
& (Ellington/Mills) J R Lafleur medley arr. Bob Hunt
14. The Martinique 4:08 (De Paris) TRO Essex Music
15. Lead Me On 5:02 (trad arr Barber) Music Box Publications/Paul Rodriguez
Music
Total Time 63:58
The Sunshine/Colyer/Barber Band 1953/4
1.Blue Blood Blues
Broadcast Feb. 1953
Monty Sunshine (cl),
Chris Barber(bass),
Len Page (bjo)
2.Slow Drag Blues
Broadcast Feb. 1953
Monty Sunshine (cl),
Chris Barber(tb) Len Page (bjo),
Jim Bray (bs), Ron Bowden (dms)
and probably Ken Colyer (tp)
(may be Pat Halcox)
3.Merrydown Rag
Broadcast Apr. 1954
Ken Colyer (tp),
Monty Sunshine (cl),
Chris Barber(tb), Jim Bray(bs),
Lonnie Donegan (bjo),
Ron Bowden (dms)
4.Chimes Blues
Broadcast Apr. 1954
Ken Colyer (tp),
Monty Sunshine (cl),
Chris Barber (tb), Jim Bray (bs),
Lonnie Donegan (bjo),
Ron Bowden (dms)
5.Carolina Moon
Broadcast Apr. 1954
Ken Colyer (tp),
Monty Sunshine (cl),
Chris Barber (tb), Jim Bray (bs),
Lonnie Donegan (bjo),
Ron Bowden (dms)
THE BIG CHRIS BARBER BAND 2002-2003
Recorded at Jools Holland's
Studio, London, 2003
except for title 10,
recorded at Porsche Jazz Festival,
Rust, Germany, 2002
6.Misty Morning/Jungle Nights in Harlem
7.The Spell of the Blues
8.Freeze & Melt
9.All Blues
10.Battersea Rain Dance
11.Devaluation Blues
12.Jubilee Stomp
13.Black & Tan Fantasy/
The Mooche
THE CHRIS BARBER BAND
the new 6-piece version
14.The Martinique
15.Lead Me On
When Monty Sunshine and I formed a band in August 1952 our intention was simple...
to have a band which did nothing but play jazz... that is to say a Professional
Band... at the time seeming to be something of a leap in the dark from a financial
point of view... when we heard the results after discovering Pat Halcox (we
had started without a trumpeter!) we began to feel that the future might be
possible!... when Pat changed his mind initially about joining up for this crazy
leap we were fortunate enough to find Ken Colyer returning from New Orleans
and we carried on as we had intended... by May 1954 disagreements meant that
the association with Ken could go no further but luckily Pat had by that time
had enough of Research Chemistry so we were able to get on with the process
of finding out how really to play this wonderful music... The band had already
developed from 3 to 5 to 6 - piece by that time and of course eventually enlarged
itself to include the Skiffle group (adding Dickie Bishop) which was discarded
when we felt that Skiffle music was not going the way we felt...thereafter changes
were quite rare but the band increased from 6 to 7 (John Slaughter, 1964) and
from 7 to 8 (Ian Wheeler, 1979)... It stayed at that size until 2001... Having
had the opportunity to play with a slightly larger ensemble in a few concerts
in 1999, 2000 and 2001 we found the experience so exciting that it was inevitable
that we would find the chance to make the new 11- piece line-up permanent and
that is how the band is and will stay... Shortly before his death our old friend
Sonny Morris found some studio tapes of broadcasts with Monty, Ken and myself
from 1953 and 1954 and we felt this would be a good time to share that discovery.
On the occasion of this ?Jubilee? tour we have now recorded our newest 11-piece
material and last of all we played two pieces with the original 6-piece instumentation
? it was a pleasure! We are now looking forward to the next 50 years! Chris
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