Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band- Royal Garden Blues - Featuring Sticky Wicket..!

The Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band in a somewhat more casual setting.
Subway Jazz Club.
Alan "Sticky" Wicket unleashing his potential in ever wilder growing breaks and fills.
High energy jazz...!!!
Chris Barber - trombone, leader
Pat Halcox - cornet
Ian Wheeler - clarinet
John Crocker - tenor saxophone
Johnny McCallum - banjo
John Slaughter - guitar
Vic Pitt - bass
Alan "Sticky" Wicket - drums

[@user-vh6zt7ty3b]

Chris Barber - the best
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[@markt1387]

Superb👍RIP Chris, we'll miss you x

[@z94720]

Bravo!

[@JimTancock]

Very sad to learn of Chris’s passing. R.I.P. 😥

[@johnjensen4984]

👌👏

[@Li_ana351]

Dit is pas echte muziek . Ooh ik heb mezelf zo vermaakt met jullie vrolijke muziek
Het ritme zit erin zeg .
In 1 woord geweldig 👌
Hopelijk maken jullie als band nog muziek !
Het spijt me van Chris Barber 🙏 R.I.P.
Dank Bert voor wat vrolijkheid .)

[@adamhowemusic283]

what year was this, out of interest? Looks like 90s or early 00s?

[@2ecnub2]

Tempo too fast. Remember this was dance music. Listen to Beiderbecke to hear how it should sound.

[@ABrandsma]

Ah no. This was many years later than Bix, and the bands occupation was to play fulltime theatre concerts. They did 250 a years during those days. People didn't come for dancing anymore to the Chris Barber band. They had done so in the 1950's but in this state of the career it was listening only. They needed some real spectacular material for that.

[@SAHBfan]

The song was written in 1919 - so an ‘authentic’ version might perhaps be ragtime piano. Anything after that would surely be a ‘modern’ interpretation, including Beiderbecke? I do struggle a bit with the concept of ‘traditional jazz’ - it implies a dedication a particular style, but jazz has ‘traditionally’ been a way of reinterpreting songs in a new way. “Trad jazz” almost seems like an oxymoron, leading to the idea ‘it shouldn’t go like that, it should go like this!’. 🤔