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Robert Jenkins: Puncturing bankers' myths
September 26th, 2012
[Ian Fraser's introduction] In this speech, Robert Jenkins blows apart the self-serving myths that bankers and their lobbyists have been peddling since the financial crisis ripped the financial system apart in 2007-. He also explains that 'captured' regulators and politicians have swallowed the myths whole. As a result, post-crisis regulatory reform is a mess that has little chance of ensuring a sustainable system. In exposing the bankers' three big lies, Jenkins, a member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee and a former chairman of F&C Asset Management, is performing a vital service. Hopefully, he's also charting a path towards towards saner reform.
[Robert Jenkins' speech: 'A Debate Framed by Fallacies'] The regulatory reform debate has suffered needlessly for having been framed by a series of false choices advanced by lobbyists and accepted as given. This is true at both the domestic and international level. One result is suboptimum regulation; another is to make global coordination more difficult than it need be. Remove these myths and one might more quickly agree than one fears. Perhaps that was precisely the worry of those who advanced the myths to begin with. Here are three such myths which lead to false choices which in turn create tensions both domestic and international.
(1) Myth one: "We must choose between safety and growth"
The banking lobby would have us believe that higher capital requirements and lower leverage will damage economic growth and retard the recovery. "Increase our capital requirements and we will reduce our lending!" You have heard it before. I can hear now.
But take a minute to do the math. Bank "A" has a one trillion euro balance sheet supported by €50 billion of equity. Now, let's double the equity required to €100 billion and retire €50 billion of bank debt. Has the balance sheet shrunk? No. Has the bank had to cut credit? No. Does more capital necessarily lead to less lending? No. So does society have to choose between safety and growth? No. So much for myth number one.*
But if you fall for this fallacy you will agonize between doing what is right for the economy short term and what is right for stability and your country long term. Bankers have exploited this fear. Depending on their political weight, the degree of banking recapitalization required, and the prospects for domestic growth, different nations will automatically have different views as to the appropriate levels of capital and the timing with which to reach them.
To the exposure of myth number one, bankers retort: "How dumb can you be?" "Equity is expensive. Make us double our equity and you will lower our Return on Equity, damage shareholder value and discourage the supply of bank capital."
(2) Myth two: "We must choose between safer banks and profitable banking"
It is in two parts. First, short-term return-on-equity (RoE) is a poor proxy for medium-term profitability much less shareholder value. Just ask yourself: has this fixation on double digit RoE achieved it over time? No. Did the annual emphasis on RoE produce attractive and sustainable shareholder returns? No. So, does a short-term focus on RoE equate to medium term profitability and long term shareholder value? No. Why? Because it does not adjust for risk. The returns may come short term, but the risks come later. (Later came recently.)
Second, the prospective investor is no longer interested in promises of short-term RoE; he is interested in achieving attractive risk-adjusted returns. The higher the perceived risk, the higher the return required; the lower the perceived risk, the lower the return expected. Capital will flow in either combination but its price will be different. Banks with little equity and lots of leverage are more risky than those with less leverage and more equity.
Investors in both bank equity and bank debt will charge accordingly. That "charge" is the bank's cost of capital. And given that markets reward more predictable earnings with higher multiples, even lower earnings need not lower the market cap, dividends or shareholder returns. Not convinced? Look at bank share prices. The market is attaching relatively higher valuations to the relatively less leveraged.
(3) Myth three: "We must choose between a stronger banking system and one that can compete"
The third myth is that governments must choose between domestic financial stability and the competitiveness of their domestic financial centers. Clearly, if you believe that higher capital requirements damage bank profitability and shareholder returns then you must also fear for the competitiveness of your domestic banking champions, the attractiveness of your country as a global finanz platz and the tax take for your treasury. But as we have seen, one need not choose between safer banks and profitable banking. PWC underscores this point in its recent report entitled "Banking Industry Reform: a New Equilibrium".
Less leverage will not only be rewarded with a lower cost of capital but also in lower costs for most sources of funding – from bank debt to wholesale deposits. And in terms of market share, the strongest banks are growing their clientele (e.g. revenue) at the expense of weaker competitors. In a world of increased risk awareness, letting your banks off the capital hook will likely damage not enhance their ability to compete.
Extend the analogy to your country as financial centre: where would clients and counterparties like best to do business? In a stable, well regulated regime? Or in one burying problems and ducking issues because regulators fear their banking system too fragile to fix? Needless to say, the tried and booed alternative – light touch/highly leveraged regimes proved devastating to gross domestic product, the taxman's take and to public confidence in banking and its regulation.
It seems bankers are sorely deluded
Now at this juncture you will be asking: if these are in fact myths, why do bankers propagate them? Are they not working for their shareholders? Do they not have a paramount interest in financial stability? Do they not want their respective financial centres to be strong and confidence inspiring? Surely they would never dream of putting their personal interests ahead of those of society and their owners? I let you be the judge.
But I can think of a few possible explanations. First, it is conceivable that many bankers simply do not understand the basics. Have you met a single senior banker who understands his cost of capital? I have not — though I should probably get out more. Second, many do not understand fully the notion of risk-adjusted returns – witness their recent quest gone wrong of chasing returns without adequate understanding of risk. Third, many managements remain transfixed by the notion of RoE as the primary measure of profitability. They have promised it to their boards and to their shareholders. The targets were written into their remuneration plans. Results fed their bonuses. And there is no doubt about it, all else being equal, higher equity reduces the measure of short term RoE. Never mind that it is the wrong measure and therefore the wrong target.
Finally, it is possible that some bankers and boards actually wish they had more capital — but dare not admit it without putting their jobs at risk. This is partly because many have insisted throughout that they were "well capitalized" and partly because they demonstrably failed to tap the market for equity each time it could have been had more cheaply. Now on these points I have both good news and bad.
The good news is that there is progress to report. First, RoE targets are being revised downwards or de-emphasized. Two banking behemoths have done so in the recent weeks. More will follow – partly because their managements cannot achieve the old (non-risk adjusted) RoE targets and partly because the market would not reward their share and bond prices if they tried to do so.
Second, the structure of bank compensation is changing. The tilt towards shares, longer vesting periods plus the introduction of claw backs means that executive pay will be better tied to the risks that they take as well as the rewards that they claim. Third, balance sheet strength is increasingly understood to be a source of competitive advantage – by clients if not yet completely by bank management. And fourth, the change of leadership at the top of many financial institutions offers the new management a one time window to do what the market is demanding.
The bad news is that the old guard did such a good job of scaring the bejezzus out of politicians that the regulatory landscape still reflects the shibboleths of the last five years. Secondly, a few of the high-profile survivors of the trauma still believe in these fantasies – or at least want you to believe. Naturally these titans must be the smartest of us all right – subsequent scandals not-withstanding?
Last but not least is the fact that many western financial institutions have yet to come clean because to do so would reveal their fragility and trigger the very equity issuance which they maintain to be unnecessary. And here you would be right to ask: in such cases would the capital be available? Answer: for the viable firm yes — perhaps not at the price that current shareholders would like to see but most certainly at a price which new shareholders would embrace. At the right price, the money would come — although the management might have to go. If the equity is not available at any price then the institution should go as well. And there's the rub.
In summary, governments and their regulators have been operating on the basis of a series of myths and false choices. This has produced suboptimum reform and complicated international coordination. In reality, one need not choose between better-capitalized banks and economic growth. One need not choose between safer banks and profitable banking. And one need not choose between a stronger banking system and one that can compete — on the contrary.
But as long as such fallacies frame the regulatory debate, decision-makers will think in terms of trade-offs both domestic and international. Trade-offs in turn imply winners and losers. And given the primacy of national interest and continued (albeit reduced) influence of the banking lobby, international cooperation will suffer – producing agreements at the level of the lowest common denominator and woefully insufficient to resolve the greatest regulatory challenge of our time. Remove the myths and better regulation and coordination will follow. It's not too late.
One final observation: the degree to which the banking system is sufficiently capitalized is the degree to which we can absorb bank failures safely. The degree to which we can let banks fail safely is the degree to which we can reduce the ever-expanding rule book aimed partly at preventing the failure of banks.
In an earlier speech entitled "Let's Make a Deal" I offered, not entirely tongue-in-cheek, to roll back the regulatory rulebook in return for sharply higher capital levels. And in his recent address [The Dog And The Frisbee, given at Jackson Hole on August 31st, 2012] Andy Haldane suggested that increasing the number and complexity of rules could well prove less effective than simply lowering levels of leverage. Needless to say, global regulators would have less to argue about if there were fewer rules to coordinate and fewer regulations to enforce.
Robert Jenkins gave his speech, A Debate Framed by Fallacies at the International Centre for Financial Regulation's 3rd Annual Regulatory Summit in London on September 25th 2012. Image: WilliamBanzai7
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There is nothing more fundamental to our Republic than free elections, equal justice under the law, and honest government. Any threat to them can shake the foundations of our Constitution.
Recently, some very disturbing information about the actions of a few high- ranking officials at the FBI and Justice Department has come to light. This information describes an effort to use the most sensitive law enforcement techniques to discredit and potentially nullify the 2016 election.
We've all heard by now about the shady Steele dossier. We are learning the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and possibly even some officials at the FBI were behind the dossier. Then that same unreliable information was used by the FBI to get a secretive surveillance warrant to spy on the Trump campaign – or in other words, a warrant to spy on fellow Americans for political purposes.
We have also learned of a small group of senior FBI officials seemingly scheming to get Donald Trump. Talks of an "insurance plan" against Mr. Trump, of secret "offsite" meetings and over 50,000 texts over 50,000 missing text messages many of which highlighted these efforts. And remember one week we are told the 50,000 texts were forever lost due to a technical error and the next week we are told the FBI Inspector General was able to recover them. Sounds a lot like missing emails doesn't it?
There is growing interest in the public release of a four-page document written by my colleague, Congressman Devin Nunes (CA) who serves as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee that outlines many of these suspicious actions. Especially the potentially illegal use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on President Trump.
This document, which I had the opportunity to read in secured area in the U.S. Capitol, was very troubling to me.
The memo must be released to the public. The American people have the right to know the truth.
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Congratulations, Dr. Rugg! Brandon Rugg's thesis, "Quantum Teleportation via Electron Transfer in a Molecular System", was successfully defended on March 25th.
The 2nd Annual Mark A. Ratner Series of Scholars lecture series will be held on March 20th, 2019 with this year's honored scholar, Kate Nichols.
Dr. Yuri Berlin has been awarded the Maria Sklodowska-Cure Medal by the General Council of the Polish Radiation Research Society in recognition of distinguished achievements in the field of radiation research and cooperation with Polish scientists. Congratulations, Yuri!
Dr. Bo Fu has successfully defended his thesis and accepted a postdoctoral position in Gregory Scholes' research group at Princeton. Congratulations, Bo!
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Former group member Prof. Emily Weiss is named the inaugural Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor. Click here to read more: Northwestern News
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Leighton Jones joins the Ratner group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Leighton!
Jonathan Schultz joins the Ratner group as a joint graduate student with the Wasielewski group. Welcome, Jonathan!
Jia Wang joins the Ratner group as a visiting scholar. Welcome, Jia!
Nicholas Jackson wins the 2015 Northwestern Presidential Fellowship. The Presidential Fellowship is the university's most prestigious award given to only the top students for their outstanding intellectual and creative ability.
Professor Ratner has agreed to serve as the interim Dean of Weinberg College for the 2014-15 academic year. During his 44 years at Northwestern, Mark has achieved a remarkable record of service, serving two terms as chair of the chemistry department, as associate dean in Weinberg College and currently as co-director of the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN). Mark is a true "university citizen," and will be an excellent leader of Weinberg College.
Shane Paker has succesfully defended his thesis. Dr. Parker will be joining the Shiozaki Group here at Northwestern to work on several summer projects.
Professor Ratner was honored at the 2014 annual Northwestern Alumni Association Awards. He was presented the Alumni Merit Award in recognition of his achievements as a professor and acclaimed theoretical materials chemist.
Brett Savoie has succesfully defended his thesis. Dr. Savoie will be staying on with the Ratner group for several months to finish several projects before moving on.
Forty years of molecular electronics: Non-equilibrium heat and charge transport at the nanoscale, published by Justin Bergfield and Mark Ratner is the feature Cover article in the November 2013 issue of Physica Status Solidi B.
Zixuan (Andrew) Hu successfully defends his thesis. Andrew has decided to stay with the group to finish working on several projects while he searches for his next position.
Lindsey Madison and Nicholas Jackson have been awarded a prestigious fellowship by the Nation Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the GRFP has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers. Congratulations Lindsey and Nick on a well deserved honor.
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Group member Chris George has successfully defended his dissertation. He has taken a position as a Software Engineer at Intel. Congratulations Dr. George.
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This is a story worth getting to the bottom of, and nobody's there yet, but even the suggestion is outrageous: Eater brings word of a receipt posted on Reddit by a user claiming to have gotten it from a friend who works at a London restaurant where 15 Olympics "bosses" (in the Redditor's words) ran up a £44,660 lunch bill, which included a £19,000 bottle of Hennessy 1853. That converts to $69,469 for lunch and $29,555 for the bottle of booze. To get an idea of what kind of mark-up that would be, a bottle of Hennessy 1853 sold for £956 at Christie's in 2004.
But there's a lot of information missing from this story, so it's too early to start pointing fingers at any Olympics officials. First of all, we have no way of immediately verifying the original Reddit poster's claim. The restaurant is not identified and the Redditor has already deleted his or her account. Also, the picture doesn't show the whole receipt, so we don't know what other booze they might have ordered, or much of the other food. The individual dishes that are sho shown seem to be pretty standard for a business lunch joint: Spiced chicken for £15, veggie fried rice for £5, "exotic fruit" (whatever that means) for £15. A $30,000 bottle of booze is outrageous in pretty much any context, but it just doesn't paint the full picture, especially given the disparity with the normally priced food. Also, Redditors on the thread questioned why the bottle of Hennessy didn't appear to have the same format on the receipt as the other items, with an @ sign followed by the unit price under it.
The Olympics are funded both privately and publicly, and we don't know who was picking up the tab for this supposed lunch—if it even happened. Of the estimated 20,000 journalists said to be in London covering the games right now, we're really hoping at least one will pick up this story and follow the money.
Update: Gawker's Max Read makes the case that the restaurant is China Tang, at London's Dorchester Hotel, where the cocktail menu includes a 19,000 bottle of Hennessy 1853, and where the hostess told him Olympic officials have been dropping by. Though she couldn't remember this group exactly.
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Music: Sweet
Lorraine (1961)||
Mean Mistreater (1961)
Music: Precious
Lord (1974)||
Just a closer walk with thee (1962)
In addittion to that concert, there are 6 bonus tracks recorded
1957 and 1958 with the same line up (see tracklist below) plus
Ottilie Patterson. The CD comes with an 8 page booklet with a lot
of information about the concert as well as about the bonus
Thanks Dave Bennet and Paul Adams for your great work.
March 6, 2017 / A. Wandfluh
Music: My
Old Kentucky home || Old
Rugged Cross ||
Music: My
Old Kentucky home || Old
Rugged Cross ||
He returned to the
Chris Barber Band in 1979 and stayed till end of July 1998.
Paul Adams / Lake
Records, dedicated his newest CD production to "Remembering Ian Wheeler"
to this great musician, who played with all the great colleagues of the
British Jazz scene and many more other international musicians.
The first number on
this double CD features the Ian Wheeler Band in August 1954 (note that
month -
after the Chris Barber Band turned professional) with Pat Halcox, Lonnie
Donegan, Jim Bray, Ron Bowden plus John R.T. Davis on piano. It comes
from a session in London (August 9, 1954) and is known as the "Halcox,
Sunshine, Wheeler Band" without Chris.
The next 5 tunes
come from the period with Ken Colyer's Band.
The first stint of
Wheeler with the Barber band (1961-1968) is represented with 5 tunes;
these five versions of tunes were not known to me until now!
The next 9 tunes
were recorded in 1978: The Ian Wheeler-Sammy Rimington Band. Ian and
Sammy in best form and it is one of my rare LP's in my collection. Great
to have it here again.
I obviousely missed the CD version by Lake
(sorry Paul).
Two songs (Sweet
Lorraine and S'Wonderful;
the second one is one of my favourites of Ian
Wheeler) are from a Hefty Jazz session of 1977.
Another long missed recording is here on this double CD set: "Ian
Wheeler at Farnhalm Meltings". This recording won 1994 the Music
Retailers Association Award for Excellence in the JAZZ-CURRENT RECORDINGS category. Enjoy these great 12 tunes.
The double CD ends
up with 2 tunes with the Lake Records Jazz Band and of course with 3
tunes with the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band.
Paul Adams has
carefully remastered all recordings and is presenting here a fantastic
"Remembering Ian" Double CD set.
The sound quality is very good
and the double CD set comes with a 12 page booklet packed with
information and pictures!
Thanks Paul for your
great work.
I remember having a long discussion with Ian once in Waldshut /
Germany. Ian was very keen on model aeroplanes and I'm a model
railroader - so we had a lot to chat about our hobbies, having a few
drinks. Great evening. RIP Ian.
I remember having a long discussion with Ian once in Waldshut /
Germany. Ian was very keen on model aeroplanes and I'm a model
railroader - so we had a lot to chat about our hobbies, having a few
drinks. Great evening. RIP Ian.
October 30, 2016 / A. Wandfluh
Gatemouth || Hymn
to Freedom ||
Melt down
Gatemouth || Hymn
to Freedom ||
Melt down
Heavy Henry
|| Over the
waves ||
Lake Records LACD320 "Dealing with the
Devil's Music - Bluesmen in Britain"This CD is a treasury
of American Bluesmen in Britain: The artists are
Little Brother Montgomery, Jimmy Cotton, Memphis Slim and Speckled Red.
Very important for Chris Barber collectors are the recordings with
Jimmy Cotton - as far as we know these titles have only
been issued 1961 on 2 EP's (very rare). At last they are now for the
first time on CD. Note the personnel of this Blues Group: Jimmy
Cotton (hca,voc), Keith Scott (p), Alexis Korner (g) and Chris Barber
(bass / tb)
Lake Records LACD 317 "British
Traditional Jazz - At A Tangent Vol. 2This too is a very
interesting CD - it is a supplement to the Vol 1 (Lake
Records LACD 316). The Chris Barber collector finds a live recording
from November 1, 1965 with the Eagle Brass Band (GB). They recorded the
Beatles songs "Can't buy my love / I wanna be your man". This live
recording is not identical to the French studio recordings "Chris Barber
joue les Beatles" with the same Eagle Brass Band, recorded 2 week prior
to this live performance. Musicians are: Pat Halcox / Cuff
Billet (tp), Chris Barber / Pete Dyer (tb), Ian Wheeler, (cl), Frank
Brooker (ts), Jim Young (tu), Pete Ridge (sd), Barry Kid Martin (bd)
Nov. 1, 1965
Dave Kelly -
Familiy and Friends - We had it all
HYP 13294This is a newer
recording (2012) with Dave Kelly (vocal and guitar) and Chris Barber
(trombone) in "Mr. Estes Said".Dave Kelly wrote:I
worte this song around 2001, when my wife and I decided we needed an
adventure, so we moved the Family to France for a couple of years.
I have recorded this song withThe Blues Band and in duo format with PJ.
A couple of years ago I returned to the remote spot in the Pyrenees
where the song had germinated. I had been listening to some early Bessy
Smith tracks and thought that voice and trumpet or trombone à la Joe
Smith or Charly Green would work well on it. When I got home I phoned up
that stalwart of the British Jazz & Blues Scene - without whom... and
Chris readily agreed to come into the studio and get it down.
and to end up this summary of CD releases we
would like to point out the Amazon has reissued parts pf the
1957 concert with Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Chris Barber Jazz Band.
Check Amazon for further details.
May 5, 2014 / Andreas Wandfluh / Peter Brennecke
New DVD: Das Beste aus dem
Musikladen35 Top Bands plus a Chris Barber SpecialSony
Music 88765 40994 9
The German TV station ARD (Das Erste) has had a regular and a very popular TV show called
"Musikladen" in the seventies. It was a kind of "Top of the Pops" and
featuread all the Pop Stars at that time.
Chris Barber and his band were regular guests at
these TV-shows; some video clips in good quality can be found on
Quite a few of the "Musikladen" Shows are now
available on different DVD's. DVD # 3 features 35 Top Stars like Manfred
Man, Status Quo, Blood, Sweet and Tears and many many more - plus a
Chris Barber Special:Battersea Rain Dance, Ice
Cream, New York Town Blues, Stevedore Stomp, We sure do need him now,
Whatcha gonna do, Take the "A" train, New Orleans Stomp, Midnight
Special. As far as I can remember (I watched the original
shows...!) these videos represent the complete Chris Barber shows of the
There are not many videos available from the
Seventies. This is a good opportunity to complete your collection.
Many thanks to Dr. Peter Brennecke from Germany who
informed us about this DVD.
Video TrailerLarge files - allow enought time for the download!
Note: Due to the compressed files the video quality of these trailers
does not represent the very good DVD quality!
Wandfluh / January 9, 2013 - June 18, 2013
Goin' to Town in Carlisle '94
Lake Records LACD
319 (double CD)
This is # 3 in the new series "Diamond Jubilee
Collection" of Lake Records and it contains almost the complete concert
of the 1954 Reunion Band and the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band of 1994.
CD one covers the first part of the evening with
the Reunion Band. Monty Sunhine, Lonnie Donegan, Jim Bray, Ron Bowden,
Pat Halcox and Chris Barber - the original 1954 line-up in a fantastic
mood. It is definitely not the first CD with the Reunion Band (and the
1994 Jazz & Blues Band). But the atmosphere at this Concert Hall in
Carlisle make this CD so special. Listen to this version of "Down by the
Riverside" - a duett between Lonnie and Chris that has - to my knowledge
- never previousely been released.
Listening to the first part of this concert brings
back a lot of memories of the 1994 tours. (In 1954 is was too young to
go to a Chris Barber concert!) The first five numbers are played by the
Reunion Band: Isle of Capri, Chimes Blues, Hiawatha Rag, We sure do need
him now and It's Thight Like That. After that, Monty is featured with
Old Rugged Cross, St. Philip Street Breakdown and Hushabye, while Lonnie
with the Skiffle Group sings and plays Can't you Line 'Em, Over in the
new burying ground, Worried Man Blues and the Grand Coulee Dam.
The concert ends up with The Combined Parade band (the 1954 line up plus
the 1994 regular band members), playing Ice Cream.
CD two presents the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band
with their regular programme at that time. Bourbon Street Parade
is followed by All The Girls Go Crazy and the Ellingtonia: a combination
of Double Check Stomp, Stevedore Stomp and Goin'to Town. One of my
personal favourite is Working Man Blues and I like very much the long
duett part with Pat on trumpet and John Crocker on alto sax, accompanied
by the virtousic playing of Johnny McCallum on banjo. Listen to the
fantastic drumming work by Russel Gilbrook
St. Louis Blues and Goin'up the River, with
Chris on trombone and John Slaughter on blues guitar are the next
numbers on this CD, followed by Petite Fleur/Sweet Georgia Brown and a
very swinging and stomping Tiger Rag / Mile End Stomp.
The CD comes with a 12 page booklet with photos and
lots of information. The concert was recorded by Paul Adams and he
states in the booklet, that this "was his first experience of recording
a Chris Barber Concert". We all know from "old" recordings (issued on
the Lake Label), that Paul is a master in restoring old and historic
material. Here he proves that he too is a master in live recordings!
Thanks Paul for this CD.Andreas
Wandfluh / January 2, 2013
Chimes Blues ||
St. Philip Street Breakdown ||
Working Man Blues ||
Tiger Rag
PALLADIUM Hallmark 711652
Peter Brennecke from Germany informed us about
another reissue of a classic concert of the Chris Barber Jazz Band: The
famous London Palladium Concert of March 31, 1961, featuring Joe
Harriot, altosax.
The CD is a complete reissue of the Columbia LP of
that time. The musicians are Chris Barber, Pat Halcox, Ian Wheeler and
Joe Harriot, Dick Smith, Eddie Smith and Graham Burbidge. Ottilie
Patterson is featured in "Too Many Drivers" and "Squeeze Me".
We have more information about the original
recording elswhere on this website.
There you will find a few sound clips of that fantastic concert.
Wandfluh / January 2, 2013
SESSIONSThe 208 Rhythm Club - Volume 1
Vocalion CDNJT 5315
The producer Denis Preston was responsible for most
of the British Traditional Jazz Revival recordings, and he created two
of the most significant series: the "Jazz Today Series" for Pye and "The
Lansdowne Jazz Series" for Columbia. In early 1962 Radio Luxembourg, a
commercial radio station based in Luxembourg and broadcasting on 208
meters, began a 13-week series of 30-minute programmes entitled "The
208 Rhythm Club". The series served as a showcase for Lansdowne's
productions, which offered the opportunity each week for the featured
band to present their recent recordings.
(Source: Vocalion Records / Lake Records)
Vocalion Records have now started with the release
of a new series of "The 208 Rhytm Club" featuring British Jazzbands from
the sixties. Volume One features the Bands of Chris Barber, Ken Colyer
and Mike Cotton. All titles have were recorded in 1961 at the Lansdowne
Studios, Holland Park, London, in 1961. However, we have no exact
recording dates. Even Gerard Bielderman, who produced the Chris Barber
Discography together with the late Julian Purser, has no further
The 12 tracks of the Chris Barber Jazz Band represent
the band's repertoire of that time. Some of the titles haven been
released in other versions on LP's and
CD's. Vocalion reports that these sessions were recorded for radio
broadcast and, as such, not issued commercially and they present all
titles on CD for the first time, remastered from the original tapes. The
Chris Barber Band at that time features the "classical-lineup", but with
Ian Wheeler on clarinet and alto instead of Monty Sunshine, who had left
the band in 1960.
The CD information (see below) shows all titles and
the personnel of the bands. To me, "Room Rent Blues", has - as far as I
know - never been released before by the Chris Barber Jazz Band. Ian
plays the alto sax and the tune is played in a very swinging mood. It's
great to find songs that have never been issued before and I am pleased to
add this title to my collection.
Ottilie Patterson is featured with 3 songs: "I'm
crazy about my baby", "Basin Street Blues" and "It ain't what you do".
Nothing new, but very good versions.
One of my personal favourite is "Stevedore Stomp".
The Chris Barber Band recorded and played this title many times. It was
featured on "my" first Chris Barber recording, the Decca EP "New Orleans
Blues" from 1954. Chris played (and recorded) it regularely till the end
of the "Jazz & Blues Band Period" (and the beginning of the "Big Chris
Barber Band").
The next 7 titles are played by the Ken Colyer
Jazzmen in 1961. My personal archive does not cover all the recordings
of Ken (and of the Mike Cotton Band), so I assume that these titles are
well-known to collectors, but have never been previousely issued
commercially. I personally like "Postman's Lament" and "Too Busy" (2
takes), a title that is also on the first recording with the Ken Colyer
Jazzmen in 1953. So, it's quite interesting to compare the 1953
recording with this one.The remaining 4 titles are played by the
Mike Cotton Jazzmen. I like their fresh and swinging sound and here I
like especially "Savoy Blues" and "High Society".
This CD series is a very good documentation of the
British Jazz Scene in the early sixties and I hope that there are more CD's to
come. On the CD booklet is mentioned Vol. 2 with the bands of Humphrey
Lyttelton, and the Al Fairweather and Sandy Brown All Stars.Andreas
Wandfluh / Dec. 2012
Till we meet again ||
Room Rent Blues ||
Ken Colyer:
Postman's Lament || Mike Cotton:
Savoy Blues ||
Chris Barber & the Clarinet Kings
Lake Records LACD314 / double CD
OK, let's start by putting my biases up front: I've
been a Chris Barber fan for over 50 years, more or less since Ian
Wheeler joined the band in 1961 (I was 14, and a fan and boyhood player
of skiffle for some years before that). I own just about every track the
band ever commercially released, including copies I've made from LPs, as
well as CDs. That said, among my favourite tracks ever are those
recorded in 1962 with Edmond Hall as a guest on clarinet. I vividly
remember buying the LP "The Best of Both
Worlds" on the World Record Club label in a record store in
Birmingham's Bull Ring in 1965. The LP featured three studio tracks with
Edmond Hall recorded in London, some songs with Louis Jordan, as well as
a few of the band playing without guests. In the ensuing close to 50
years, the LP has been virtually worn out, it's been played so many
times (although I did recently manage to secure an excellent-condition
copy on eBay). And while all the tracks on that LP are standouts from
the era, the three Edmond Hall tracks are particularly memorable.
Over the years I've also managed to collect several
European LP re-issues with additional Hall tracks, ending up with, I
think, a complete collection of all the studio recordings - with which I
made a CD for my own personal enjoyment using the ripped LP files.
Imagine my delight, then, on hearing the
announcement that, at long last, all these eight tracks have been
released on a new double-CD from Lake Records, Chris Barber and the
Clarinet Kings. This is the second in a new series called "The
Diamond Jubilee Collection", the first of which (Clearing The Air in
Bern '92) has already been reviewed on this site. Not only that,
but the Clarinet Kings CDs are accompanied by four more
recorded with Hall in concert in Koln, as well as the entire 1960 LP,
Chris Barber's American Jazz Band (which has been released on
CD at least once before), plus four recordings with Louis Armstrong's
clarinetist, Joe Darensbourg.
Perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but I also have a
bootleg CD of the tunes played when Albert Nicholas guested with the
1968 band in Geneva. They, too, have taken their place among my
favourites and most frequently played of the more than three thousand
Barber tracks that I own. Other than that, the Ed Hall concert
recordings and the Joe Darensbourg studio session are new to me.
CD-1 begins with Chris Barber's American Jazz
Band, recorded in New York in November 1960, featuring Chris on
trombone, Sidney De Paris (trumpet and vocal), Edmond Hall (clarinet),
Hank Duncan (piano), Hayes Alvis (bass), and Joe Marshall (drums) - all
sterling jazz players and session men whose names will be familiar to
many jazz fans. These tracks run the gamut from driving swing (Down
Home Rag) to a soft and beautiful blues, especially notable for
Chris's solo (Tishomingo Blues.) The rest of CD-1 contains the
eight aforementioned Hall studio recordings plus two of the concert
CD-2 begins with the two remaining Hall concert
tracks, followed by seven with Albert Nicholas, while the Joe
Darensbourg tracks make up the final four. Every one of the Nicholas
tracks is outstanding, although my personal favourites are C-Jam
Blues, Black And Blue, and Blue Turning Grey Over You:
traditional jazz blues at its very best by anyone, anywhere. The
Darensbourg tracks are different in that they include only Chris Barber
and Pat Halcox from the Barber Band, together with several well-known
English musicians. All are relaxed and enjoyable. I won't say any more,
if only to avoid pre-empting Paul Adams's thorough and informative
sleeve notes (not to forget the usual excellent Lake Recordings
re-mastering). Buy this one: you won't regret it!
Ed Jackson, September 2012
Addendum by Andreas WandfluhThe tracks with Albert Nicholas was
the beginning of my work with Chris Barber in 1977. I was in a position
to arrange that the rights of this 1968 Geneva recording had been
transferred to Chris and I'm happy to present here the
recording sheet of the concert.
Music: Tishomingo Blues ||
High Society ||
C-Jam Blues ||
Joe's Blues
Addendum by Andreas WandfluhThe tracks with Albert Nicholas was
the beginning of my work with Chris Barber in 1977. I was in a position
to arrange that the rights of this 1968 Geneva recording had been
transferred to Chris and I'm happy to present here the
recording sheet of the concert.
Goin' up
the river
Take Me Back To New Orleans is a double-CD re-issue of a previous LP and CDs of the Chris Barber Band in concert with the Grosses Rundfunkorchester Berlin, recorded in 1986, and issued under the title, New Orleans Symphony. It was the outcome of a collaboration between Chris Barber and composer Richard Hill, with the aim of combining a jazz band and a classical music orchestra in a single performance – a collaboration which was remarkably successful, as both the music and playing on this CD are of a very high standard.
The original LP was released on the Jazz Zounds label, which also issued the first CD of the concert. Another re-issue came from Timeless Records, so this Bell Records edition is the third to appear, although the title has been changed for the current release.
Unfortunately, the CD is not listed in the Bell Records on-line catalogue (www.bellmusik.de), but it is readily available from Amazon, and possibly on eBay, so Chris Barber fans should have little trouble acquiring this new release should they wish to do so.
Music: Blues (Largo) || Immigration Blues || Ragtime || South Rampart Street Parade || Stomp
Ed Jackson, November 2011
This new CD covers almost a complete concert of the present Big Chris Barber Band (What'cha Gonna Do and All Blues are missing). However, not all the recordings are from a single concert: all the recordings were made in January and February 2011 in England, Scotland and Germany. Rebecca Evans, the band's sound engineer, mixed and put together the best ones from several concerts for the CD, supported by the band's banjo player Joe Farler, known as a technical wizard. The sound quality of the live recordings is great.
The CD features the new faces among the band:
Regular listeners to the band will be happy to have a CD that covers the most recent line-up of the Big Chris Barber Band. Different from previous recordings is Chris's singing on Precious Lord, Lead Me On and the current version of Ice Cream, with the singing of Peter Rudeforth and Chris Barber. And of course, I personally miss one musician: blues guitarist John Slaughter, who died much too young in 2010. His blues parts have been taken over by others, for example by Chris Barber on trombone on Black & Tan Fantasy.
Andreas Wandfluh, November 2011
This new compact disc from Lake Records fills in some important gaps in the Chris Barber Band's recording history, notably between 1961 and 1965. While it is true that full LP recordings continued to be issued during this period, it appears that by the early 1960s the relationship with Denis Preston's Lansdowne Studios was over, and that recordings from this time were issued independently and more sporadically, on singles and EPs, and some not at all, at least until several years later.
Thus, the tracks on There Were Some Changes Made come from a variety of sources, including selections from an LP that was only available from the World Record Club (e.g., Weary Blues, Black & Tan Fantasy), and later re-issues on compilation LPs (for example, there are several tracks that appeared on a much later Black Lion LP, Chris Barber Special. Finally, others have never before been released (e.g., Georgia Swing, and a novel version of Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie, on the latter of which Chris plays a muted solo in a way which I have never heard in any earlier or later recordings).
One of the outstanding characteristics of this CD is the very high standard of studio recording, which lends a tight-knot sound to the band, yet leaves space for the listener to hear and concentrate on each of the specific musicians in what was then a six-piece outfit (the CD does not include any vocals by Ottilie Patterson, the seventh member of the band). The other outstanding characteristic of the band is its easy, relaxed manner of playing, due no doubt to the fact that, apart from Ian Wheeler (who seemed to "fit in" from his first day with the band in 1961), there had been no personnel changes since Graham Burbidge joined the band for the first Sister Rosetta Tharpe tour at the end of 1957.
In sum, There Were Some Changes Made is an excellent and welcome addition to the available catalogue and one which many Barber fans will greatly enjoy listening to.
For more information about this period in the Barber Band's development, go to Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Otttilie Patterson, 1961 to 1964.
Ed Jackson, October 28, 2011
Like the two CD-sets shown immediately below, and particularly Hits From The Golden Era Of Traditional Jazz, this new double-CD, Chris Barber Greatest Hits, is a compilation of forty tracks spanning the Chris Barber Band's earliest recordings in 1954 to those of the mid- to late-1950s. The tracks are drawn from LP and EP records originally published on several labels, including Decca, Pye/Nixa, and Columbia. As such they provide a comprehensive -- if conventional for this sort of compilation -- selection of tracks from roughly the first five years of the band's existence, with a couple of additional "hidden gems" that do not always make it on to compilations of this kind -- for example, Hot House Rag, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair, and Camp Meeting Blues. As in the case of Hits From The Golden Era Of Traditional Jazz, my assessment is that the current double-CD provides an excellent introductory compilation of the Barber Band's catalogue in the 1950s but that there is little here to appeal to serious collectors of Chris's older recorded output, who most likely have the majority, if not all, of the tracks already in their collections.
Ed Jackson,
September 2011
Chris Barber' Jazz Band, High Society and Hits From The Golden Era Of Traditional Jazz (compilation CDs probably released in 2011: the CD data does not provide this information.)
I recently came across these two compilation compact discs for sale on eBay, and decided to purchase them – despite having all of the contents on numerous other CDs, LPs, and EPs – as a service to the website in case they contained anything unusual which might be of interest to avid Barber fans and music collectors, or to the more casual listener and record purchaser. My conclusion is that their appeal is likely to be much more to the latter group of people because, like me, fans who have been following the Barber Band for many years already own most if not all the tracks.
The two CDs are similar in that both draw upon the rich vein of Barber recordings from the band's first studio session for the Decca label (New Orleans Joys, recorded in 1954) to the latter part of the 1960s. High Society is a single disc comprising twenty tracks all drawn from the Pye/Nixa catalogue, encompassing the Chris Barber Plays series of four LPs, plus material from the three Chris Barber In Concert LPs. Hits From The Golden Era Of Traditional Jazz is rather more ambitious: this is a double-CD album with notes in both German and English, with a total of forty tracks. Many of them are the same as those which appear on High Society, but the scope is both narrower (the last track is from 1957) and broader: as well as tracks from the Pye/Nixa label we also have numerous tracks that were recorded for Decca, Storyville and Columbia.
In a sense these two CDs are just two more examples of the many such releases that have appeared during the last decade or more -- compilations designed to recycle early material over and over again. From that point of view they are as good as any of the others, such as for example, the Pye Jazz Anthology which came out in the early 2000s. It's unlikely that they will appeal to serious collectors but, on the other hand, they do provide an excellent introduction to the Chris Barber Band's early recordings. Incidentally, they would make great gifts if one wished to introduce a friend to the early music of Chris Barber.
Ed Jackson, August 2011
The usual thing with any new Chris Barber CD is that in most cases it is an unusual thing! So it is with the brand new double-CD Memories Of My Trip! It does not cover the present programme of the Big Chris Barber Band but, rather, much of the whole musical career of Chris Barber over the last sixty years. It is indeed a "memory of my trip", both for Chris himself and for his many fans who have followed him and loved his music for so long.
Chris dedicates this new CD to the late John Slaughter, the band's outstanding blues guitar player who died in 2010. Many of us deeply miss John's fantastic blues solos: he was an integral part of the Chris Barber Band's music for more than forty years.
The double-CD features Chris Barber and various line-ups of the Chris Barber Band with an impressive array of guests, such as Ottilie Patterson, Rory Gallagher, Jimmy Cotton, Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Keith Emerson, Mark Knopfler, Albert Nicholas and many, many more.
Disc One is entitled "Blues, Jazz & Gospel". The opening tune is Brownie McGhee's solo rendition of Memories Of My Trip, which provides the title for the album. Brownie sings about his tours with Chris Barber's Jazz Band in the late 1950s.
The first CD is a complete firework of blues, jazz and gospel songs. We especially like the Muddy Waters Blues Band, playing Kansas City with Chris on trombone. Another great song is Diggin' My Potatoes, with Lonnie Donegan. But this is not the well-known 1954 version recorded at the Royal Festival Hall: it is a recording by the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band plus Lonnie Donegan in 1987.
Next, a very interesting Weeping Willow is a collaboration between Eric Clapton and Chris recorded in 2010, on which Eric sings and plays acoustic guitar along with members of his own band.
Chris and the band have recorded several times with Van Morrison. On this CD you will find How Long Blues and Goin' Home from 1998, but also a much earlier recording from 1976 entitled Oh Didn't He Ramble. Not only Van is featured here, but also Dr. John on piano. The interesting thing about this track is that Chris owned a copy of the backing track without the vocal. Van sent Chris the respective original vocal track, and here the two separate tracks are combined for the first time!
Many followers of the Barber band particularly like the blues song Goin' Up The River. However, the version here is not by the Barber Band. Chris guested in 2005 with the Canadian group, Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards, and recorded a remarkable album with this Canadian group which included Goin' Up The River (see the page for the original CD from the Canadian sessions).
The first CD ends with a very touching song called Another Sad One, written and played by the late John Slaughter. A few days before his death he sent this sound file to us as co-webmasters of the Barber website, asking us to post this song on the site and to dedicate it to his wife Brigitta and his three daughters. In his covering email message he also added the words, "It's me playing in a way nobody ever heard me play."
Disc Two is entitled "Jazz & Blues". And the fireworks of the first CD continue here! The opening song is St. Louis Blues / Missouri Special / St. Louis Blues, featuring Ottilie Patterson singing and Edmond Hall playing clarinet. And a great surprise is the duet of Ed Hall and Ian Wheeler, both on clarinet on "High Society". At last this number is now available on CD.
The sound changes dramatically with Rock Candy, a rock-oriented recording from 1966 with Keith Emerson and Chris Barber.
In 1978 the band toured with John Lewis and Trummy Young. The version of Georgia On My Mind on the new CD was recorded in Germany without John Lewis, but Trummy's trombone playing and singing are fantastic. There is also a great alto sax solo played by Sammy Rimington on this track.
Chris Barber continued his work with New Orleans clarinet players over many years. In 1968 the Band filled the traditional Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland with a terrific performance with Albert Nicholas. C-Jam Blues is featured here and I (Andreas) am very happy that at last this tune has been published on CD. I was lucky in 1977 to arrange that the original Geneva tapes were passed on to Chris by Swiss Radio. C-Jam Blues not only features an outstanding solo from Albert, but also a remarkable alto sax solo by John Crocker, who joined the Barber Band only a few weeks before this event.
The third New Orleans clarinettist on this CD is Joe Darensbourg with Rose Room, accompanied by Chris Barber and Pat Halcox, plus Richard Simmons on piano, Terry Knight on bass, and Dave Evans on drums. This recording dates from August 1974.
In 1983 Eddie Durham, the former Count Basie trombonist, played with the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band. Here you will find the great blues number Jack Teagarden Blues.
In 2010 members of the present Big Chris Barber band recorded two songs with Jools Holland, Winin' Boy Blues and On The Sunny Side Of The Street.
The CD ends with three tunes by the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band together with Mark Knopfler. These songs, originally recorded for the Chris's BBC Radio 2 programme Jazz Diaries, have been cherished as rarities among fans who were lucky enough to record the programme. It's a great pleasure to have the titles now on a commercial CD.
As we said at the beginning, Memories Of My Trip is an unusual double-CD from an unusual and outstanding Jazz, Gospel and Blues man. It is almost impossible to name and pay the respect to all musicians on this double-CD, so we suggest, sit back in a comfortable chair, sip a good drink (or two!), and listen to more than two hours of great music! The double-CD comes with a 24-page booklet, fully packed with information in Chris's own words and, to our knowledge, some very rare photographs.
All in all, this CD is a fitting tribute to Chris Barber and his more than sixty years as a bandleader and one of jazz's great musicians; it surely is indispensable as an item in every Barber fan's collection.
With only a slight variation in the words, the lyrics of Mark Knopfler's lovely song, 'Til The Next Time I'm In Town, which completes the album, could sum up every Chris Barber fan's gratitude to Chris for his music, both in concert and on record, for many decades:
It's been something seeing you again
In this time we've had to spend
Been so good to be around.
I thank you for that special thrill
Keep me going on until
The next time [you're] in town....
Andreas Wandfluh & Ed Jackson,
April 2011
Lake Records LACD 296, released in March 2011.
A new CD with rare recordings as well as previously unissued material has reached the Chris Barber website and archive team at the beginning of March 2011. Paul Adams of Lake Records has compiled a very interesting compact disc, documenting the great musical diversity of Ottilie Patterson between the years 1958 and 1961.
The first twelve titles comprise a complete re-issue of the original Columbia recording Chris Barber's Blues Book, Volume 1, a 12-inch LP recorded and released in 1960. These twelve songs were re-issued by BGO Records in 1997 on a CD together with the 1964 album Good Mornin' Blues; however, they have remained comparatively rare items, so we are very happy to have the complete Columbia recordings once again on a widely available CD.
My personal favourites of the first twelve titles are Kidman Blues and Backwater Blues. Backwater Blues is an absolutely fantastic duet between Ottilie's vocal and Pat Halcox's muted trumpet. Blues Before Sunrise is another great duet, this time with Ottilie and Chris on trombone. Lord it Hurts So Bad and Only The Blues feature – besides Ottilie – Keith Scott on piano, Alexis Korner on guitar, and the Barber rhythm section of 1961 (Eddie Smith, Dick Smith, and Graham Burbidge). Squeeze Me has been recorded several times. This piano/vocal version, however, is slightly different from the previously-issued version (recorded on the same day) and which can be found on Lake CD LACD194, Chris Barber Bandbox, Volume 1.
A wonderful Ottilie EP has also been reproduced. Ottilie Swings The Irish – all four tracks are on this new CD. It is a fond memory for me personally as it was the first "Ottilie only" EP I bought in 1962 in Berne, Switzerland (and I still own it!). Tracks 20 to 23 are versions of songs that have not been issued before. Very interesting are Sobbin' Hearted Blues and Monty Sunshine's Burgundy Street Blues with Ottilie singing!
The sound quality of this CD is excellent: Paul Adams has, as usual, put a great deal of work into carefully restoring this historic material. Thanks Paul – and we look forward to many more reissues from the early Barber catalogue.
Andreas Wandfluh,
March 2011
Lake Records LACD 294, released in February 2011.
The original LP Elite Syncopations, (Chris Barber's Band Box, Volume Two), issued in 1960, featured the Barber Band with its classic lineup of Chris, Pat and Monty, Eddie and Dick Smith, and Graham Burbidge. It was recorded in January and February 1960. The LP was a great success and has been issued and reissued as an LP on various labels. (You may check the original LP cover and sleeve notes here.)
However, it was not until 1995 that Lake Records decided to release the complete LP on a CD, adding four more tunes such as Thriller Rag, Whistlin' Rufus, Tuxedo Rag and Bugle Call Rag (tracks recorded in 1955 and 1956). This CD was soon sold out and remains a rare item. (Please read our review here.)
Now, in February 2011, Paul Adams from Lake Records has again reissued the original LP tracks. What makes this CD so interesting is that the additional tracks are completely different from those on the first CD issue; however, I would not say that the original tunes are not interesting at all. But tracks 11 to 15 have not been previously issued, while the bonus tracks 16 and 17 feature the 1953 Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. Those two bonus tracks are taken from the Lake Records CD From New Orleans to London (LACD 209) (see our review here).
As mentioned above, we have already posted a review of the 1995 CD, so we do not repeat our comments on the first ten fantastic tunes. These tunes have again been carefully re-mastered by Paul Adams. Thanks Paul for this work!
The new CD is a full "ragtime" CD. Track 11 (Hiawatha – A Summer Idyll) features the 1954 line-up re-united in 1994 on the occasion of several 40 years jubilee concerts. Great sound – the 1954 band in full stereo with Monty Sunshine, Pat Halcox, Lonnie Donegan, Jim Bray, Ron Bowden and Chris.
Merrydown Rag (track 12) was recorded in 1967; the opening of the tune features Ian Wheeler in a beautiful solo on clarinet.
Whistlin' Rufus (track 13) has always been a very popular Chris Barber tune which has been issued on numerous EPs, LPs and CDs, but the most common is the 1955 version, which originally appeared on the 10-inch LP, Chris Barber Plays, Volume Two. The version on the new CD was recorded in June 1975, this time with John Crocker on clarinet. John and Pat are featured in a short but great duet.
Harlem Rag (track 14) was recorded in November 2001 with the traditional 8-piece band line-up. This was at the time when the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band started to play with the Bob Hunt Ellingtonians, thus finally ending later in the Big Chris Barber Band. Harlem Rag has often been played in concerts and is a typical ragtime number, freshly played by the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band.
Maple Leaf Rag (track 15) was recorded at the Playhouse at Whitley Bay in December 1998 and fits beautifully into this ragtime CD. The Chris Barber Band played this tune in the 60s and then again only in 1998.
As already stated, the bonus tracks come from the Ken Colyer CD From New Orleans to London and were recorded in 1953. Cataract Rag and Harlem Rag are the two bonus tracks. It is interesting to compare the versions of Harlem Rag from 1953 and 2001.
I personally like this CD very much as it covers rags played by the Chris Barber Band from 1953 to 2001.
Andreas Wandfluh,
February 2011
Chris Barber's Jazz & Blues Band with Special Guest Ken Colyer, New Orleans Parade
Lake Records LACD 293, released in November 2010.
New Orleans Parade is an "unexpected" compact disc from Lake Records: as Paul Adams points out in his notes, Chris Barber sent the tapes of a 1984 concert to him "out of the blue", suggesting that they would make a worthwhile and historically important CD. This was largely because the eight-piece Chris Barber's Jazz & Blues Band of the time was joined on-stage by Ken Colyer, with whom of course Chris had played in Ken Colyer's Jazzmen in 1953 and 1954.
The concert, which took place on December 16, 1984, was recorded at the St. Ivo Centre, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire. It begins with two "Parade Band" tracks featuring the full band along with Colyer, and then continues in somewhat more formal pieces with Ken as lead trumpeter while Pat Halcox stepped aside. The last track on the CD is also a "Parade Band" feature, Dr. John's All On A Mardi Gras Day.
Although there is little that is new on the CD in terms of the tunes played, it is in fact a most enjoyable record and one well worth purchasing. An obvious sense of relaxation and camaraderie comes through clearly on every track, resulting not only in a new sound for old classics like The Sheik Of Araby and Goin' Home, but also many solos in which the band members seem to be casting off the normal confines of arrangements and solos on much-played tunes. This is particularly evident in Breeze, for which we have provided an edited combined clip featuring Ken's trumpet lead, his vocal, and part of a most enjoyable solo by John Crocker on tenor sax.
Ed Jackson, November 2010
Music: Breeze || Weary Blues
OK Entertainment Channel / Chris Barber Collection CBJBDVD5001, recorded in November 2008 and released in 2009.
A new video of a complete concert with the Big Chris Barber Band.
Chris Barber fans know that they should always check the CD corner at concerts. Beside "normal" CDs there are often CDs and DVDs for sale that are not available in shops or by mail-order services. This happened with the latest CD, "Chris Barber at Blenheim", as well as now with the new DVD, "In Concert On The Isle Of Wight" (recorded Nov 27th, 2008 at the Medina Theatre, Newport).
This DVD features the present members of the band and it is the first recording with the newest members: Zoltan Sagi (cl, saxes), Pete Rudeforth (tp), and John Service (tb). The complete show was filmed and has been carefully remastered. It is a great document of the current tour – perhaps with one exception: "Ice Cream" is NOT on this DVD! There are no gimmicks, no "bonus tracks" or material to fill the DVD. It's just as it should be, a concert by the Big Chris Barber Band. So sit on your couch, switch on the Television/DVD player, and enjoy 90 minutes of great music.
Andreas Wandfluh, 2009
Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Sonny, Brownie & Chris.
Lake Records LACD 278, released in September 2009. Recordings made in 1958; several tracks appeared on the LP by the same title, plus the CD includes rare, and in some cases previously-unissued, bonus tracks.
When I first saw this new CD, I believed it to be a "normal reissue" of old material. But while listening to it, I noticed how carefully Paul Adams has selected the tracks. Collectors who missed Lake CD LACD 87 have a second chance to get the complete content of the original 10-inch LP, "Sonny, Brownie & Chris". But there are more titles with the two blues singers and quite a lot of jazz tunes that have been released here for the first time on CD, including most notably instrumental versions of Just A Closer Walk With Thee and Do Lord. Also previously unissued is the title Blue Bells Goodbye. When You And I Were Young, Maggie is presented here as a straight band version; it was normally played at that time as a solo number by Monty Sunshine.
There are a lot more tunes to name. In the repertoire of the current Big Chris Barber Band is the song Cornbread, Peas & Black Molasses. At concerts Chris always refers to the Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee tour when announcing the title. Here you can listen to the original version by the two great blues singers. (By the way the Sonny Terry/Browne McGhee titles on this CD are not the same versions as are on the "Blues Legacy CDs Lost & Found, Volumes 1 and 2", issued in 2008.)
The CD comes with an eight-page booklet and a great deal of discographical information. Thanks to Linda & Paul Adams for this great CD album.
Andreas Wandfluh,
September 2009
The Big Chris Barber Band, Barber At Blenheim (The Big Chris Barber Band At Blenheim Palace)
Chris Barber Collection CBJBCD 4004, Recorded at Blenheim Palace on 1st December 2007, and released in 2009.
The regular eleven-man line-up is slightly reduced to ten on this CD as, according to the notes, "John Slaughter was at the time not yet recovered from his serious illness and regular replacement Andy Kuc couldn't make it." Consequently Joe Farler doubles on banjo and guitar. Also, it's worth noting that, to the best of my knowledge, this was the last concert recorded for public release before trombonist Bob Hunt and reedman Tony Carter left the band, and just seven months before veteran trumpeter Pat Halcox retired after 54 years with the band.
Ed Jackson, May 2009
The Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band, Barbican Blues
Double-LP originally recorded and released in 1982 and reissued in April 2009 on Lake Records LACD273.
One of my personal favourite recordings has been reissued by Paul Adams on Lake Records: the "Barbican Blues" concert of April 20, 1982 from London. It was the first jazz concert at the newly opened Barbican Centre and featured the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band with a great mix of different sounds. This CD is a complete reissue of the stereo double-LP on the Black Lion label (BLM 61003/4, issued in 1982).
This is one of those CDs that best demonstrates the musical variety and versatility of the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band -- and it also looks ahead to the future development of the band into the present Big Chris Barber Band.
Andreas Wandfluh, April 2009
Music: Barbican Blues || Perdido Street Blues || Spanish Castles


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NABARD has taken an initiative for supporting producer organizations, adopting a flexible approach to meet the needs of producers. In order to give a special focus, the "Producers Organization Development Fund"(PODF) has been set up with effective from 01 April 2011, with an initial corpus of 50 crore . Producers Organization Development Fund (PODF) is used to support Producers Organizations across three levers, viz. credit support, capacity building and market linkage. The objective of the fund is to meet end to end requirements of Producers Organization as well as to ensure their sustainability and economic viability.
NABARD has identified Vanavarayar Institute of Agriculture as the Producer Organization Promoting Institution or POPI for Promotion and nurturing of 05 Farmers Producer Organizations (FPOs) with 500 farmer members per FPO in Coimbatore and Tirupur Districts. NABARD has sanctioned an amount of Rs. 45.30 lakhs to establish (5 FPOs). The registration of 5 FPOs has been completed.
"This institute believes in enabling farming communities to bring about significant changes in their lives by themselves."


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With millions of people working out & trying to stay fit with personal trainers, there are a lot of certifications and courses out there that can turn you into their perfect solution. The industry keeps going up round the clock, especially since more and more individuals understand the necessity of a healthy body. If you are engaged into fitness, this might be the ideal time to transform your hobby into an actual career. Apart from the insignificant stress levels and high rewarding feelings, the average wages for a personal trainer keep going up. As if all these were not enough, it is not like you have a strict dress code either.
There are clearly a lot of incentives. Therefore, it becomes perfectly normal to overlook some of the main elements associated with this career. Just because you already love health and fitness, it does not mean that you can dive in without analyzing your options. There is a wide variety of PT courses out there and each of them has its own strengths. Remember that the success of a business venture is directly proportional with its failure rate. In other words, a rising industry also leads to a lot of failures. People get fired on a daily basis, so make sure that you know what you are getting into.
Specific things in the fitness industry may look extremely simple at a first glance. Whether it comes to lifts, running or squats, even the simplest things in the world require education. Such moves must be performed exquisitely, as experiencing creates body mechanics and techniques. Believe it or not, even physics can relate to exercise. For instance, squats need to be performed to a particular knee flexing degree. Change the degree and the entire exercise will change, as well as its efficiency. Imagine how much education a personal trainer requires to provide all these details. The more complicated the exercise is, the more specific PT courses become.
Generally speaking, becoming a personal trainer is all about enjoying what you are doing. Passion can become a career if you are truly engaged into it. If you enjoy helping people be happy, you will inevitably help them master technique, adjust themselves or drill an exercise repeatedly. At this point, it is obvious that personal training might be your calling. However, make sure that your excitement does not flow away when you need to provide all these small details. Sometimes, it might become frustrating to teach a runner about stride length standards and shoulder positioning, but patience is part of the game too.


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At first glance this monstrosity appears to be a filthy ettin of huge size. On closer inspection the true nature of the creature is revealed as it has but one eye in the center of each ugly head.
XP 19,200 N Huge humanoid (giant) Init +1; Senses low-light vision; Perception +19
AC 25, touch 9, flat-footed 24 (+4 armor, +1 Dex, +12 natural, –2 size) hp 178 (17d8+102) Fort +16; Ref +8; Will +9 Defensive Abilities rock catching
Speed 40 ft., (30 ft. in armor) Melee 2 longswords +20/+15/+10 (3d6+10) Ranged 2 spears +11 (3d6+10/x3) or 2 rocks +12 (2d6+15) Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft. Special Attacks rock throwing (140 ft.), superior two-weapon fighting
Str 31, Dex 12, Con 23, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 10 Base Atk +12; CMB +24 (+26 bull rush, overrun); CMD 35 (37 vs. bull rush, overrun) Feats Awesome Blow, Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Overrun, Intimidating Prowess, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Martial Weapon Proficiency (longsword), Power Attack Skills Climb +14, Craft (any) +9, Intimidate +25, Perception +19; Racial Modifiers +2 Perception Languages Common, Giant Gear hide armor, 2 longswords, 2 spears
Superior Two-Weapon Fighting (Ex) Edit
A biclops fights with a longsword or spear in each hand. Because each of its two heads controls an arm, the biclops does not take a penalty on attack or damage rolls for attacking with two weapons.
Environment temperate and warm mountains Organization solitary, pair, gang (2–4), or clan (5–8) Treasure standard
Despite their appearance biclops are generally peaceable creatures who live by hunting and herding giant longhorn sheep, which they keep for milk and wool. They are feared by less intelligent giants such as hill giants and trolls whom they beat to death on sight. Biclops have good relations with stone giants whom they trade finished metal weapons and goat cheese in exchange for raw ore and gold.
Adult male biclops stand about 16 feet tall and weigh about 4,500 pounds. Females are slightly shorter and lighter. Both male and female dress in clothes made of dark or dull colors (browns, greens, and dark reds usually). Biclops skin ranges from ruddy brown to cinnamon and eye color is usually blue. Hair color is almost universally dark though occasionally a fair-haired biclops is born (such a biclops is viewed as someone special among his or her own kind). Warriors and protectors often wear hide armor (and sometimes metal armor) and always carry weapons.
A biclops can live to be 350 years old.
Biclops fight with twin longswords, hacking foes to pieces with mighty cleaving chops. If given advanced warning they tend to chase off intruders with well aimed rocks hurled from great heights or crushing them beneath controlled avalanches.
Biclops live in tribe-like communities deep within hills and mountains constructing their homes from the stones and lumber of their environment. A typical biclops home has three rooms: a communal area where the family meets, a sleeping room, and a kitchen. Biclops families rely on each other for protection, food, and trade. External trade is often set up between biclops and other races, particularly stone giants and dwarves.
Some of the less "reputable" tribes take prisoners or cannibalize humanoids and monstrous humanoids. In such a case, there is a 20% chance that a biclops lair contains 1d4 captive humanoids or monstrous humanoids.
Biclops leaders are usually fighters or barbarians. Most groups of biclops include clerics (sometimes called shamans among the biclops race). A biclops cleric has access to two of the following domains: Earth, Strength, Trickery, or War. Sorcerers and wizards are extremely rare among the biclops race.


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Predicting the Silver Top
By Roland Watson
Mar 5 2008 10:10AM
Silver is rocketing, the silver shorts are sweating profusely and silver continues to outperform gold as the next big silver spike begins to take shape. The main question now is at what price will you exit your silver position? Readers have queried me for my view on the matter but plainly no one knows to the dollar at what price silver will form a major top in the months ahead. Some will get it right but there will be more luck than judgment about such price prophecies.
At times like these, the venerable record of $50 is looked upon as an obvious target, whilst others state the inflation adjusted measure of $135. Other investors perceive a paradigm shift and see higher prices even than these with $200 for some reason being mentioned more than once. Others seeing a hyperinflationary apocalypse suggest that the price of silver will become meaningless as the dollar vaporizes before our eyes. People like to work with solid numbers, especially ones that are rounded off to the nearest tens or hundreds.
In other words, you won't get a consensus which is hardly surprising since the price in question lies in the future. Looking at the current price of $20, some may be getting a bit edgy as they look at their increasing profits and fear the top is in and $9 silver is the next objective decimating their new found wealth in the process. That is a natural fear, as natural as the greed that will make others hang on for ever greater prices. What is the happy rational medium between these two dominating emotions?
Since I like to be analytical, I hope one or two emotions are banished in the process; but being flesh and blood there is no guarantee there! The answer perhaps is not to get hung up on a fixed price. So, I prefer my indicators to say "when" rather than "how much" since price fixing can be a very angst ridden process if you have a lot of net worth riding on one asset.
Applying some kind of science to the matter can help detach us from the rollercoaster ride. For example, looking at extremes in price, the chart below maps out the 7 day percentage change in the silver price since 1963 just before it broke free of its government decreed price of about $1.28 per ounce. The price of silver is in green.
As you can see, the data swings between positive upward changes and negative downward changes as bulls and bears waxed and waned over the decades. We have had some whopping price fluctuations in that time especially in April 1987 when silver registered a 35% price jump in the space of seven days (why I am not sure). Behind that we have a series of huge jumps during the Buffett and Hunt spikes of up to 20% or more on the week.
Looking to the right hand side we see our current silver bull which turns out to be smaller in amplitude than our previous major bulls of 1972-1974 and 1977-1980 but comparable to the 1960s. In the light of those old bulls, we could say that we ain't seen nothing yet. But if we zoom in on the last five years we get a clearer picture.
Here we see some interesting structures. During the 2004 run up when the silver bull was hotting up, price increases did not exceed 9% per week though we had a series of increasingly higher lows when the price of silver "decelerated". The 2006 bull was a different story; the weekly changes in the price of silver just kept getting bigger and bigger until we were getting weekly changes of up to 15%.
Now with our current bull leg we again see the higher highs of price changes with a current maximum of just over 10% set last week. So the message appears to be, 10% price changes each week are not unusual and indeed we should expect them to get bigger. In fact, going by past bulls it could possibly go as high as 20% on the week as the next major top in the generational silver bull market is achieved. Does that mean the bull is over when a seven day leap of 20+% is registered? Yes, quite possibly but the question is how many 20% leaps before it tops?
Roland Watson
Further comments can be had by going to my silver blog at http://silveranalyst.blogspot.com where readers can obtain a free issue of The Silver Analyst and learn about subscription details. Comments and questions are also invited via email to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Texas cop offers pot-smoking teen choice of fine or pushups
ARLINGTON, Texas – An Arlington police officer is making headlines on social media for his encounter with a teenage boy, KDAF reported.
Officer Eric Ball was working off duty at a movie theater when someone told him a teenager was smoking marijuana outside.
When he caught the boy, Ball says the teen was respectful and realized he'd made a mistake.
So Ball offered him a choice: Do 200 push ups or get fined.
Ball says push ups are how his coaches used to discipline and he wanted to use the moment as a teaching opportunity.
The teen's mother was reportedly on board and even suggested he do more than 200.


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Mahtab Narsimhan
British Columbia
Mahtab Narsimhan was born in Mumbai and emigrated to Canada in 1997. After several attempts, her first middle grade novel The Third Eye was published in 2007 and won the Silver Birch Fiction Award. Narsimhan is now the author of six middle-grade books. Her seventh novel, Mission Mumbai, follows two best friends on the trip of a lifetime in India, each with their own motivations and secrets that threatens their relationship.


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Trayport, a leading provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges worldwide, today announced that Polenergia Obrót are now using GlobalVision Trading Gateway through a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model, for power trading in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Trayport's GlobalVision Trading Gateway is an industry-proven electronic trading platform that allows traders to access multiple liquidity pools and trade across these pools from a single user interface. Trading Gateway will provide Polenergia Obrót with a central system to manage and execute deals in increasingly global and complex energy markets.
Polenergia Obrót's Management Representative, said "Polenergia is a solid, robust and active market player. Last year, having introduced a new company strategy with changes in management and the trading team, we significantly scaled up our trading activities. We were quoting actively on several brokerage screens and exchanges in different CEE markets and we were looking for a solution that would support the efficiency of our trading strategies on one hand and help us better manage a part of the operational risks we take on the other. We found Trayport's tools met all our objectives."
Combie Cryan, Head of Sales and Client Relations at Trayport, said "We are pleased that Polenergia Obrót have chosen Trayport to help accelerate their growth. The addition of Polenergia Obrót demonstrates our commitment to continue to deliver the best solutions for the CEE market. Many participants are seeing us as the obvious choice given our already established and growing network of electronic markets in the CEE region."
Polenergia Group is the first Polish private power group operating internationally, owned by Kulczyk Investments - an international investment company, focused on investment opportunities in global emerging markets. Polenergia is a vertically integrated group of companies working under a common brand in the field of energy generation from conventional and unconventional sources, as well as energy trading and distribution. Polenergia is one of the key assets in the Kulczyk Investments portfolio as an operational center, know-how base and a platform to carry out innovative energy projects in Poland and within the region.


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Next month, Miley Cyrus and The Flaming Lips will hit the road together in support of their recent collaborative LP, Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz. And in news that shouldn't shock you in the slightest, at least one of their shows will apparently take place completely in the nude.
The news comes from Wayne Coyne's Instagram, which adds the concert will be filmed for a forthcoming video. And it won't just be Miley and the Lips who will be without clothes; Coyne adds the audience will be "COMPLETELY naked." Also, "milk (well white stuff that looks like milk)" will be spewed everywhere, because of course.
There's no word on when or where the concert will take place. Find a full list of the already announced Dead Petz tour dates below.
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Oh fuck..!!! @mileycyrus is planning a show where her, the band ( us ) and the audience are all COMPLETELY naked with milk ( well white stuff that looks like milk) is being being spewed everywhere .. It's a video ( in the works) for #mileycyrusandherdeadpetz song The Milky Milky Milk… @stevendrozd @derek_levi_brown @mileycyrus @katyweaver @spacefacemusic @rockworth @leochandler @fantastic_ley @jgeeezus @zacharyancox @alphachanneling @mugglinstagram @monamuseum @happyhippiefdn @waynez__world @weirddestiny @drc3p0 @damienhirst #flaminglips #waynecoyne #mileycyrusandherdeadpetz #theflaminglips
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz Tour Dates:
11/19 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
11/21 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
11/27 – Washington, DC @ Echostage
11/28 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
12/05 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
12/06 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Revisit Miley and The Flaming Lips' recent SNL performance of "Karen Don't Me Sad":


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Looks like the show "Desperate Housewives" has some truth behind it. According to a new study, women who are housewives are more likely to cheat on their partners.
Illicit Encounters, a popular U.K. dating site for married people, conducted the research and looked at over 10,000 profiles to determine which character traits and jobs were the most common among men and women who cheated.
Twenty per cent of women identified themselves as homemakers, making the occupation the most common among unfaithful wives. However, the research also revealed that the reason behind their infidelity is likely due to feelings of neglect.
According to the study, 30 per cent of women described themselves as "lonely," and 27 per cent described themselves as "virile," implying they had a strong, but idle sex drive, Indy100 reports.
According to the study, 30 per cent of women also described themselves as 'lonely.'
As for men, the survey revealed that those who are tall, smart, and rich are the most likely to be unfaithful because their cheating is driven by ego and lust, as opposed to loneliness.
It's interesting to note that 40 per cent of the site's male users were six feet or taller. While it might seem odd to correlate height with infidelity, a tall stance could play into the male ego, which is a factor in why they cheat.
Christian Grant, a spokesman for Illicit Encounters, told News.com.au, "Our results show that men have a tough time suppressing their ego. Tall, affluent, smart — these men have it all... or at least, they think they can have it all. They want to have their cake and eat it too, and that includes having as many relationships as they see fit."
Grant noted that this is very different from women who are not driven by their ego, but instead by "a sense of loneliness, thanks to a lack of satisfaction in her marriage."
"This loneliness is further compounded for housewives, who potentially spend hours alone, only to further be neglected when their husbands come home," he said.
Earlier this year, Victoria Milan, another dating site for married people, conducted their own study to find out which age women were most likely to cheat. According to their research, the average woman marries at age 29 and cheats at age 36.6.
This makes sense considering it's common for passion to fade after the first few years of marriage, however, men should be careful not to neglect their wives, who may be drawn to cheating as a result, according to the Illicit Encounters study.
Plus, you know what they say: happy wife, happy life.


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History of Lemon Curd
Lemon Curd is a hot item on the recipe pages of magazines the world over. Is it a curd, butter, honey or cheese? We check it out! 'Lemon Curd' is originally English in origin dating back to the early 1800's. The recipe back then was rather literal and not at all how we'd think ofRead more