{"id":1886,"date":"2015-04-21T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2016-02-04T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T10:13:44","slug":"mike-barrys-uptown-gang-24th-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"Mike Barry\u2019s Uptown Gang, 24th April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was MIKE BARRY\u2019S UPTOWN GANG<\/strong> who played again for us on Friday, 24th<\/sup> April 2015<\/strong> here at the Farnborough Jazz Club (<\/strong>Kent)<\/strong>. MIKE BARRY<\/strong> (leader, trumpeter & vocals) was joined by GOFF DUBBER<\/strong> on reeds, \u2018WHISPERING\u2019 MICK HOLT<\/strong> on trombone & vocals, GRAHAM BARTON <\/strong>on piano, ROGER CURPHY <\/strong>on bass and GRAHAM COLLICOTT <\/strong>on drums. They were on top form as ever. It is a great shame, Mike Witt took some photos on a small camera, but none came out successfully, all but one, that is. Quite eggstraordinary really, because Val (behind our bar) brings us wonderful freshly laid eggs and this week, she brought a huge goose egg. I asked Mike to take a picture of it \u2013 yes you guessed, this one came out (well it was an egg ha). What is eggtraordinary is the news this morning on BBCTV showed a special pre-historic egg \u2013 one of a 500yr old Madagascan elephant bird which is to be auction at Christies \u2013 coincidence I know! See it on:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/6BEQrwPHYDM<\/a><\/p>\n

Now see Ours:<\/p>\n

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Photo of Val’s special fresh goose egg brought in to Farnborough Jazz Club (the night of Mike Barry’s Uptown Gang) on 23rd April 2015. We thought it was a wopper!. Photo by Mike Witt.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Back to Mike Barry\u2019s Uptown Gang, my first choice of song to mention was sung by Mike, \u2018Blow My Baby Back To Me\u2019<\/em> and on came the dancers immediately. I jotted down great solo trombone from \u2018Whispering\u2019 Mike. Next came Stan Kenton\u2019s hit<\/em> \u2018Harlem Folk Dance\u2019<\/em>, with absolutely brilliant playing by all of them, in particular, fabulous playing from Roger on bass and Graham (C) on drums. About a dozen of us managed to dance our line-dance to a Latin American rhythm. The tune was \u2018Brown Skinned Girl\u2019<\/em>, great fun, thanks boys, you played it fabulously for us. Then Goff sang \u2018Saving All My Love For You\u2019<\/em>. So many musicians have great jazz voices, as he has. Did you choose to sing this song because of the composer (could he be a relative Goff?) \u2018My Monday\u2019s Date\u2019 followed on with Goff on tenor sax and fab bass from Roger (I noticed an interjection from you of \u2018Fascinating Rhythm\u2019 \u2013 see these little things don\u2019t go unnoticed – ha).<\/em> Graham was featured next and performed his own Boogie composition (obviously named \u2018Graham\u2019s Boogie\u2019<\/em>) which he played last time they were with us. Mike told me then, Graham composed it that night? Next came \u2018Whispering\u2019 Mike, singing (as well as performing a super bit of trombone playing) to \u2018Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams\u2019,<\/em> (a Bing Crosby hit) <\/em>to which Graham (B) also performed a great piano solo to. We did a second line-dance to \u2018I Found A New Baby\u2019<\/em>, well they were playing it brilliantly. \u00a0What happened next, shows how much relaxed fun occurs at jazz evenings. Mike hiccupped at the beginning of his intro with \u2018Bugle Boy March<\/em>\u2019 \u2013 hiccupped? Well, he couldn\u2019t get it right and so took a couple of stabs at it, with so much heckling from us audience in his ears. Then after another re-try, got it perfect to a huge cheer \u2013 lovely bit of fun \u2013 that\u2019s jazz. Mike is back again on 26th<\/sup> June with his Yerba Buena Celebration Band, so put it in your diaries.<\/p>\n

Diane & Keith<\/h6>\n
\u2018Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)\u2019 – Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin & James F. Hanley (1919)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Brown Skinned Girl\u2019 \u2013 Harry Belefonte<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Bugle Boy March\u2019 \u2013 Francis Meyers ((1907)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Graham\u2019s Boogie\u2019<\/em> – Graham Barton (2014)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Harle<\/em>m Folk Dance\u2019 – Stan Kenton (1941)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018I Found A New Baby\u2019<\/em> \u2013 Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams (1926)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018My Monday\u2019s Date\u2019 \u2013 (m) Earl Hines, (l) Sid Robin (1928)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Saving All My Love For You\u2019 \u2013 (m) Michael Masser, (l) Gerry Goffin (1978)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams\u2019 \u2013 (m) Harry Barris, (l) Ted Koehla & Billy Moll (1931)<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was MIKE BARRY\u2019S UPTOWN GANG who played again for us on Friday, 24th April 2015 here at the Farnborough Jazz Club (Kent). MIKE BARRY (leader, trumpeter & vocals) was joined by GOFF DUBBER on reeds, \u2018WHISPERING\u2019 MICK HOLT on trombone & vocals, GRAHAM BARTON on piano, ROGER CURPHY on bass and GRAHAM COLLICOTT on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-barrys-uptown-gang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}