Monty Sunshine - Remembering Monty Sunshine (2016)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Wild Cat Blues
02. Slow Drag Blues
03. Blue Blood Blues
04. That Eccentric Rag
05. St Philip Street Breakdown
06. Careless Love
07. Old Stackolee
08. Original Tuxedo Rag
09. Saturday Night Function
10. South
11. Jacquline
12. The Sunshine of Your Blues
13. Gimme a Pigfoot & a Bottle of Beer
14. Sobbin' & Cryin'
15. Creole Love Call
16. 1919 March
17. Coney Island Washboard
18. Sunstroke
19. Down Home Rag
20. Young Woman Blues
21. Cakewalkin' Babies from You
22. I Keep Calling Your Name
23. Saratoga Shout
24. Seven of Hearts
25. Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet

CD2
01. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
02. Monty's Blues
03. Gonna Build a Mountain
04. Hushabye
05. Spain
06. Ole Miss Rag
07. I Want a Big Butter & Egg Man
08. Up a Lazy River
09. Muskrat Ramble
10. At the Jazz Band Ball
11. Squeeze Me
12. Riverboat Shuffle
13. Too Busy
14. Goin' Home



Clarinettist Monty Sunshine was one of the key figures in British Jazz. He was part of the legendary and pioneering Crane river Jazz Band in the late 1940s. Along with Chris Barber and Lonnie Donegan he joined with Ken Colyer to form Ken Colyer's Jazzmen and when the rest of the band parted company with Colyer he was in the first Chris Barber band. Barber's meteoric rise to fame coupled with the burgeoning popularity of Trad Jazz put him at the forefront of that movement. The Barber band reigned supreme throughout the 1950s and Monty Sunshine firmly established himself and secured his place in UK Jazz history when the clarinet led Petite Fleur became a hit record for the Barber band. This paved the way for a series of clarinet hit records and the rise of Acker Bilk. Monty left the Barber band in 1960 to form his own band in 1960. This band continued until Monty suffered a heart attack in 2003. His band was particularly popular on the Continent. Petite Fleur has never been unavailable and continues to be reissued year after year. This double-for-the-price-of-one compilation contains many rare and previously unissued tracks and serves as useful over view of Monty Sunshine's career.

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