[Dixielandjazz] More on Chris

[Marek Boym]

Sorry to hear of Barber's predicament and retirement.  Despite my
preference for rhythm sections with a piano, Barber's band has been a
favourite of mine ever since my  dad brought me a Barber EP back in the
early '60's.  The addition of that terrible wailing "blues" guitar rendered
some of its records unlistenable.  When the Barber band played in Cesarea,
my friends were greatly disappointed by that guitar, even those who liked
"modern" jazz.  I was not - I knew what to expect.
The recordings of the Ben Cohen and Alex Revell band were reissued on a
Black Lion double LP; wonderful music (and very different from the later
band), but I do not recall as second trumpet.
Cheers

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 01:18, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>
> > Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote [in part]:
>
> > This piece is from the current Jazz Journal on lne.
> > My memory of first hearing a Barber band would be that it was in 1949,
> but the reference books suggest it must have been 1950.  Whenever it was,
> there were two trumpets – were they Dickie Hawden and Ben Cohen? And Alex
> Revell was on clarinet. The music was far more wide-ranging than it later
> became...
>
> Dear Steve,
> In my tribute to pianist David Stevens (to be published in the September
> 2019 'Just Jazz' magazine) I included the following, based on biog
> information given to me by David some years ago:
>
> "David joined and recorded with John Haim's Jelly Roll Kings, where he met
> and befriended clarinetist Paul Simpson. Haim died far too young in January
> 1949 and David began rehearsing with Chris Barber's King Oliver-styled
> group. It was shambolic and he gave up and worked and recorded with the
> visiting French Rene Franc and his quartet. A year later the piano-less
> Barber Jazz Band (the one the public knows) successfully launched itself
> full blast onto the London scene."
>
> 'Jazz. The Rough Guide' (Carr, Fairweather,Priestley) confirms Ben Cohen
> and John Chilton ('Who's Who') confirms Alex Revell.
> Congratulations on your excellent memory.
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
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