Bobby Shaftoe/Rock Island Line/New Orleans Blues/John Henry/Stevedore Stomp/Merrydown Blues/I’d Love It/Storyville Blues/The Girls Go Crazy About The Way I Walk/I Hate A Man Like You/Salutation March/Weeping Willow Blues
Compilation album of tracks recorded by British jazz stalwart Chris Barber in the early 1950s. Includes Rock Island Line, featuring Lonnie Donegan, which kick started the 1950s British skiffle craze. (UK:17)
“Includes some of the first records made by the band and reveal it to be a very polished, assured unit even at that early stage. As an aside two tracks were cut at that first session by the band's banjo player, Lonnie Donegan. Two years later they were issued at a single and Rock Island Line sparked the whole skiffle craze.”
“Barber and his band's specialty is what I suppose is called 'roots' jazz. That is, heavily blues oriented and leaning towards songs that were popular when jazz was first taking off in the roaring 20s.”
“Full of foot tapping, swinging trad jazz, with skiffle, blues and gospel. It shows just what an innovator Barber was, and the variety of styles he embraced.”
“Barber plays his trademark trombone, with an insouciant ease that makes it look so very easy. This is an album full of happy music played with such verve and joi-de-vivre that it really entertains and gets the feet tapping.”
“Chris Barber's take on jazz was at the blues, folk and gospel end which had influenced the earliest New Orleans model and, via Lonnie Donegan, he was in at the ground floor of the skiffle movement.”
“Chris Barber has been one of the giants of the British jazz scene. Without compromising his high musical standards, or the precision of his trombone playing, he demonstrated the ability to adapt to seismic changes in jazz music, earning admiration well beyond these shores. His band has embraced traditional jazz, blues, R & B, skiffle and gospel.”
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