Ice Cream - Chris Barber band - Blues Festival Lahnstein 2013 descargar videos gratis

from the SWR TV broadcast.

The concert was actually recorded on September 28. 2013 and then broadcasted on October 20. 2013.

The band starts this number with 7 members :

Chris Barber - trombone, vocals, leader

Pete Rudeforth - trumpet, vocals

Bert Brandsma - clarinet, vocals

Richard Exall - baritone sax

Joe Farler - banjo

Jackie Flavelle - bass

Gregor Beck - drums

Joining for the final part in a huge jam session are :

Mike Henry - trumpet

Bob Hunt - trombone

Ian Killoran - alto sax

Although Chris Barber is very much associated with Ice Cream these days, it is not his biggest hit, that happened to be Petite Fleur, recorded in 1956 but which record suddenly started to sell very well in 1959.

Around that same time the Barber band was extremely succesfull in Germany and a very wellknown live version of Ice Cream was recorded in one of the really big concerts. It still had Monty Sunshine in the band.

This Ice Cream version has some of the relaxed New Orleans brass band feel that Barber likes, with Gregor Beck starting some of the great second line grooving.

The band then starts the traditional N.O. clarinet, trumpet, trombone front, but with an additional baritone sax, pumping out some marching band low lines.

The vocals are partly in three part harmony by Chris, Pete and Bert. One of the highlights is the audience singing so enthousiasticly, that for a while no band is needed!

Brandsma then pays tribute to Monty Sunshine by using the same opening phrases that you can hear on the 1950's recordings.

After the clarinet solo, gradually more and more band members join in, untill the full Big Chris Barber band is on stage.

In the 1950's Pat Halcox designed some new lyrics to this number, partly because some of the Ice flavours mentioned in the original USA version did at that time not exist over in Europe, and partly because the lyrics were simply not known.

It is in that light very interesting to note that other famous artists like Eric Clapton with Wynton Marsalis, used the Pat Halcox/Chris Barber lines, and not the originals!

With Chris Barber's big successes in the late 1950's, the big British trad jazz boom really started, soon afterwards leading to other million seller records by Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball.

It went so far that even American greats like Benny Carter started calling Barber : the inventor of Trad Jazz!.....