20 toe-tapping tracks for only £2.98! You can't go wrong and will enjoy the best it can get!!
All the great jazz classics are on here including THE haunting "Petite Fleur" with Monty Sunshine, along with some cracking live tracks AND 6 numbers featuring the fabulous voice of Ottilie Patterson.
If "April Showers" alone doesn't get your feet a jiggin' then you must be a piece of wood........man!
There's not one bad track on this album, which all come from the mid to late 1950's and it finishes with a rousing last track of a live version of "You Rascal You"; so buy it NOW Daddio and get in the groove!
20 toe-tapping tracks for only £2.98! You can't go wrong and will enjoy the best it can get!!
All the great jazz classics are on here including THE haunting "Petite Fleur" with Monty Sunshine, along with some cracking live tracks AND 6 numbers featuring the fabulous voice of Ottilie Patterson.
If "April Showers" alone doesn't get your feet a jiggin' then you must be a piece of wood........man!
There's not one bad track on this album, which all come from the mid to late 1950's and it finishes with a rousing last track of a live version of "You Rascal You"; so buy it NOW Daddio and get in the groove!
Castle have again raided the Pye Nixa vaults for their latest Chris Barber retrespective.
There are concert recordings from 1956 and 1958; and studio tracks from the same period.
For the first time Castle have included 2 Skiffle numbers with Dickie Bishop and Johnny Duncan; and many with the Band's Blues Singer Ottilie Patterson; and one track with American Blues men Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
The records show the Band's full repetoire, and is excellent value with 38 tracks.
Castle Still have more tracks from Pye Nixa as yet unisssued, so there should be more to come!
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Castle have again raided the Pye Nixa vaults for their latest Chris Barber retrespective.
There are concert recordings from 1956 and 1958; and studio tracks from the same period.
For the first time Castle have included 2 Skiffle numbers with Dickie Bishop and Johnny Duncan; and many with the Band's Blues Singer Ottilie Patterson; and one track with American Blues men Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
The records show the Band's full repetoire, and is excellent value with 38 tracks.
Castle Still have more tracks from Pye Nixa as yet unisssued, so there should be more to come!
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I agree entirely with the previous reviewer in his praise of this CD. As a Barber fan from the band's beginning in the mid fifties, I bought almost every record they released (without listening first!) including the three concert LPs making up the CD. I bought mono versions,not owning stereo equipment at the time. They are given a new lease of life in clear digital stereo sound which is a great achievment by the engineers, given the relatively "primitive" recording conditions. My favourite (and I suspect most other people's) has to be the German concert especially when the original sleeve notes tell of the recording difficulties encountered!
The band, as always, was in superb form on all the tracks, but my favourite is "Gotta Travel On" ... Read More:
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I bought this CD after being impressed by the Naxos disc of `John Rutter's Requiem. That was something of a revelation, and probably the strongest recording of that work available. This disc is far less impressive.
The Mass of the Children is a fine work. As when recording the Requiem, this Naxos version uses the chamber ensemble version of the work rather than the full orchestral version. As with the Requiem the performance is top notch, both musicians and voices. No one should expect a piece called `Mass of the Children' to be as deep or searching as a Requiem and this is indeed a lighter work. John Rutter was inspired by his experience of singing in Benjamin Britten's War requiem in 1963, but it is a lighter side of Britten's choral ... Read More:
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I bought this CD after being impressed by the Naxos disc of `John Rutter's Requiem. That was something of a revelation, and probably the strongest recording of that work available. This disc is far less impressive.
The Mass of the Children is a fine work. As when recording the Requiem, this Naxos version uses the chamber ensemble version of the work rather than the full orchestral version. As with the Requiem the performance is top notch, both musicians and voices. No one should expect a piece called `Mass of the Children' to be as deep or searching as a Requiem and this is indeed a lighter work. John Rutter was inspired by his experience of singing in Benjamin Britten's War requiem in 1963, but it is a lighter side of Britten's choral ... Read More:
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I bought this CD after being impressed by the Naxos disc of `John Rutter's Requiem. That was something of a revelation, and probably the strongest recording of that work available. This disc is far less impressive.
The Mass of the Children is a fine work. As when recording the Requiem, this Naxos version uses the chamber ensemble version of the work rather than the full orchestral version. As with the Requiem the performance is top notch, both musicians and voices. No one should expect a piece called `Mass of the Children' to be as deep or searching as a Requiem and this is indeed a lighter work. John Rutter was inspired by his experience of singing in Benjamin Britten's War requiem in 1963, but it is a lighter side of Britten's choral ... Read More:
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There are some concert performances that can claim to be historic - This is one of them. I have a confession to make. This recently reissued CD is a compilation of two live recordings - Jazz concerts played at the Royal Festival Hall, London on October 30th 1954 {A} and January 9th 1955 {B}. All right, so I wasn't there in the flesh at the time - I wasn't (quite!) old enough - but listening to the live (October) broadcast on steam radio is one of my earliest musical memories. I subsequently owned the original Decca EP release which featured tracks 4,5,6 and 8 below.
The CD starts with the announcement '...And now we come to the top of the bill, Chris Barber'. And what a billing it is. Chris Barber was a legend in his own time (still is) - but ... Read More:
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