Chris Barber's Jazz & Blues Band - The Class of '78 (2016)

Tracklist

01. At the Darktown Strutters Ball
02. Texas Moaner Blues
03. Stevedore Stomp
04. Immigration Blues
05. Extension 345
06. Heavy Henry
07. St Louis Blues
08. We Sure Do Need Him Now
09. Over the Waves
10. Sideways
11. Ain't Misbehavin'
12. Aint Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll
13. On the Sunny Side of the Street
14. Petite Fleur
15. Sweet Georgia Brown
16. Down by the Riverside

Chris Barber had been at the forefront of the Trad Jazz Revival during the 1950s and 1960s. When it all fell apart in the mid-60s Chris Barber managed to keep the music alive and fresh which he continues to do today. In the late 1960s he added a Blues guitarist and in 1978 he added a second reed player to the front line which enabled the band to be more flexible and have a bigger sound. The well known Rock drummer, Pete York, also joined the band. The repertoire on these CDs ranges from Trad Jazz standards, to Duke Ellington tunes, to Jazz/Rock tunes like Dick Morrissey's Heavy Henry, to Pete York's drum feature, Extension 345. This collection is a double-CD-for-the-price-of-one set based on a triple LP release which was one of the classic Barber releases of the 1970s.

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