A Trailblazer's Legacy (4CD)

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Cat No: LMCD227

Format Details: 4CD

Release Date: 23 July 2021

Label: The Last Music Company

Packaging Type: Box Set

No of Units: 4

Barcode: 5052442019107

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Description

Fully authorized by Chris Barber and running at approximately five hours playing time, this set of four CDs and book set is testament to Chris' remarkable career.
It includes eighteen-thousand-words of discography and biography by Alyn Shipton and an insider's view of Barber's motor racing career by Dave Brodie. The music spans the seven decades from his first studio recordings in 1951 to a final session in 2018, made just four months before his 89th birthday. It includes collaborations with many other internationally renowned musicians. Leading a jazz band for over seventy years would be a remarkable achievement in itself, but also to have been at the forefront of the blues revival in Britain, and to have first brought such pioneer musicians as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, Louis Jordan and Professor Alex Bradford and many more to the UK is equally significant. The book section is fully illustrated with one hundred and fifty photographs and images from Chris Barber's private collection and elsewhere and is a fitting tribute to his extraordinary life.

Disc 1
1. Chris Barber's New Orleans Jazz Band. - Stomp Off Let's Go (Schoebel) 2. Chris Barber's New Orleans Jazz Band. - Misty Morning (Whetsol / Ellington) 3. Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. - The Isle of Capri (Grosz / Kennedy) 4. Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. - La Harpe St Blues (Colyer) 5. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Stevedore Stomp (Ellington / Mills) 6. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - The Martinique (de Paris) 7. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Chimes Blues (Oliver arr. Barber) 8. Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group. - Rock Island Line (trad. arr. Barber / Donegan) 9. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Cox) 10. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Ice Cream (Johnson / Moll / King) 11. Bertie King with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Skokiaan (Msarurgwa / Glazer) 12. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - St Louis Blues (Handy) 13. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Goin' To Town (Ellington / Miley) 14. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Papa De Da Da (C and S Williams / Todd) 15. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - Careless Love (trad. arr. Barber) 16. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Doin' The Crazy Walk (Ellington / Mills) 17. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Petite Fleur (Bechet) 18. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Bourbon St Parade (Barbarin) 19. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - Kay Cee Rider (trad. arr. Patterson) 20. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Bye and Bye (trad. arr. Barber) 21. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - When the Saints Go Marching In (Black / Purvis arr. Barber)
Disc 2
1. Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Every time I Feel The Spirit (trad. arr. Barber) 2. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - The Sheik of Araby (Snyder / Smith / Wheeler) 3. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - Moonshine Man (Clayton) 4. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Majorca (de Paris) 5. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Rent Party Blues (Ellington / Hodges) 6. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson. - Do Lord Do Remember Me (trad.) 7. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Betty and Dupree (trad. / McGhee) 8. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Give Me Your Telephone Number (Higginbotham) 9. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Golden Striker (Lewis) 10. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - Well Alright, OK, You Win (Watts / Wyche) 11. Chris Barber Presents Harlem Washboard. - X Marks The Spot (Scott) 12. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Swipesy Cakewalk (Joplin/Marshall arr. Barber) 13. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - The Entertainer (Joplin arr. Barber) 14. Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Beautiful Dreamer (Foster arr. Barber) 15. Chris Barber's American Jazz Band. - You Tell Me Your Dream (Daniels)
Disc 3
1. Chris Barber's American Jazz Band. - Lil Liza Jane (trad.) 2. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Just a Little While To Stay Here (trad. arr. Barber) 3. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - Too Many Drivers (Broonzy) 4. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Revival (Harriott) 5. James Cotton. - Love Me Or Leave Me (Kahn / Donaldson) 6. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Trad Tavern (Barber) 7. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Gonna Build a Mountain (Bricusse / Newley) 8. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Chiquita (Jefferson/Hardwick/Washington) 9. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - The Mountains of Mourne (Percy French, Houston Collison) 10. Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson. - Lonesome Road (Shilkret/Austin) 11. Edmond Hall with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - High Society 12. Louis Jordan with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? (Austin) 13. Louis Jordan with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Don't Worry 'Bout The Mule (Jordan) 14. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Eh La Bas! (trad) 15. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Weary Blues (Mathews) 16. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Black and Tan Fantasy (Ellington /Mills) 17. Albert Nicholas with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - C Jam Blues (Ellington) 18. Sammy Price. - Tailgate Boogie (Price)
Disc 4
1. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - I Never Shall Forget (King) 2. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Jeep's Blues (Ellington / Hodges) 3. Alex Bradford with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Couldn't Keep It To Myself (A. Bradford, K. Morris) 4. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Csikos (Barber) 5. Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Zawinul) 6. Van Morrison and Dr. John with Chris Barber's Jazz Band. - Oh Didn't He Ramble (Trad.) 7. Chris Barber's Jazz and Blues Band. - Heavy Henry (Dick Morrissey) 8. Chris Barber's Jazz and Blues Band. - Sideways (Leroy Lovett) 9. Chris Barber's Jazz and Blues Band. - Good Queen Bess (Hodges) 10. Chris Barber's Jazz and Blues Band. - The Weight / Caledonia Mission (Robertson) 11. Eddie Bo and Chis Barber. - Wake Up (Edwin Bocage) 12. Chris Barber's Jazz and Blues Band. - All The Girls Go Crazy (trad.) 13. Chris Barber's Six Piece featuring Jools Holland. - Winin' Boy Blues (Morton) 14. Big Chris Barber Band. - Merry Go Round (Ellington) 15. Chris Barber Special. - Savoy Blues (Ory)
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