[Dixielandjazz] 3B`s

[Marek Boym]

One man's meat, etc.,etc.
My friends and I heard BArber in Caesarea a few years ago.  Only two
of us knew what to excpect; the others were very disappointed - the
yall hated the wailing "blues" guitar!   Perhaps I should add here
that only Donna and I are somewhat mouldy - all the others are of the
erroneous opinion that Dave Brubeck, Miles DAvis or John Coltrane
played jazz!
Acclaim or not, I don't need to listen to things I don't like.  I have
only one Ball LP - his tribute to Fats, and even that one has too many
vocals.  I prefer a band with a piano - a strange thing to say by a
great Chris BArber lover.
Actually, I have later Barber, but not with the Jazz and Blues Band; I
have a CD with the DSC Band, an LP with his American band, and one
with New Orleans musicians - noe, mercifully, with that awful guitar.
Bilk is nostalgia to me - the first western band I heard as a kid (I
was 14 in 1955) was Acker Bilk (not MR. yer) and His Paramount Jazz
BAnd.  Still, at the height of his popularity jazz reords by Bilk were
a rarity - most contained a lot of non-jazz material, rvrn if hi
beautiful clarinet made "Stranger on the Shore" somewhat listenable.
The jazz content of what he played then was rather perfunctory.
Luckily, when the "trad boom" ended, Acker kept on playing and making
beautiful music (I heard his band in Edinburgh in 1992, and it was
like a dream).
Cheers

On 9 March 2013 17:19, Pat Ladd <pj.ladd at btinternet.com> wrote:
> <<I have neverbought anything by Barber's later bands,>>
>
> Hi Marek,
> you are a hard man to please.
>
> I saw Barber locally last year with his latest band. Chris said that he thought it was the best band he had ever had. Certainly it has changed since the great days of Ottilie but tastes have changed also. I don`t think that anyone could now enjoy great acclaim playing as they did in  the gutsy and frenetic days of the early 3 B`s.  Barber still swings like mad and I am looking forward to seeing him again in the near future. The tickets are already bought.
>
> Pat
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