Catalogue: JASMCD 3007
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/03/2002
Bar Code: 604988 30072 7
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Big Bill BROONZY w. GRAEME BELLIn Concert, Germany 1951

"Get Out Of Here" was the Bell band’s opener.The
rest of the first set includes two tunes from the classic jazz period in
"Muskrat Ramble" and "High Society", together with "Big Chief Battle Axe" which
is associated with Bunk Johnson. "Kansas City Stomps" is a Jelly Roll Morton
tune and is given a fine rolling treatment. To complete the set we have Graeme
Bell’s original composition, "Bull Ant Blues". "High Society" with which the set
finished is, of course, a march and the mobile members of the band performed it
while marching round the stage. Big Bill opens with "John Henry". Leroy Carr’s
"In The Evening" is a song that demands and gets an evocative performance in
contrast to the joyful tunes that finished the set, "I Feel So Good" and the
popular song "Who’s Sorry Now".On his second set, Big Bill returned to the
classic blues with "Trouble In Mind" and then the folk/blues standard "Keep Your
Hands Off Her" extolling the virtues of his lady and warning off any predatory
males. His set is completed by the arrival of the Bell band for the novelty
number "Mama Don’t Allow". Graeme Bell shows his ragtime skills on "Black And
White Rag" in a nicely paced version before the band’s drummer is featured on
cornet with the Ellington favourite "It Don’t Mean A Thing".The concert closed
with "When The Saints" on which the vocal is shared between Lazy Ade and Big
Bill.
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