{"id":558,"date":"2014-05-04T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-04-09T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T13:53:37","slug":"mike-barrys-uptown-gang-2nd-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Mike Barry\u2019s Uptown Gang, 2nd May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MIKE BARRY\u2019S UPTOWN GANG<\/strong> was the band here at the <strong>FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB<\/strong> on <strong>2<sup>nd<\/sup> May 2014<\/strong> Band leader <strong>Mike<\/strong> (trumpet\/vocals) had booked <strong>GOFF DUBBER <\/strong>on clarinet\/saxes\/vocals, \u2018<strong>WHISPERING\u2019 MIKE HOLT <\/strong>on trombone\/vocals,<strong> GRAHAM BARTON <\/strong>on piano, <strong>ROGER CURPHEY <\/strong>on string bass and <strong>GRAHAM COLLICOTT<\/strong> on drums. The evening was another success, with such songs as Louis Armstrong\u2019s hit number, \u2018East Coast Trot\u2019, (they played it up-tempo) and \u2018Fidgety Feet\u2019. Keith has an infected toe, so Mike introduced this tune as \u2018Fidgety Foot\u2019. It is cheeky subtle one-liners like this that make our evenings at Farnborough. The atmosphere is always fun and the music always professional, with bands like Mike\u2019s. Some of their repertoire included their own version of \u2018Isle of Capri\u2019 which was excellent. To follow was the wonderful and unique sounds of \u2018Whispering Mike\u2019s vocals with \u2018Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams\u2019 (a Bing Crosby hit). \u2018Dippermouth Blues\u2019 is a great jazz favourite, with audiences calling out \u201cOh play that thing\u201d, however, we did our line-dance, so missed that moment of jumping to ones feet at that point. Loved the dancing though, always lots of fun. The next number \u2018The Gettysburg Address\u2019 was terrific and must mention impressive drumming by Graham. Mike featured next, accompanied by Roger and Graham with \u2018Davenport Blues\u2019. What a beautiful effort too. My last number is \u2018Bourbon Street Parade\u2019 and just loved the trio harmonising vocals of both Mikes and Goff. It finished another wonderful evening with everybody leaving wearing huge smiles on their faces and that is what it\u2019s all about, always good jazz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See you next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diane and Keith<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018Davenport Blues\u2019 \u2013 Bix Beiderbecke (1925) &#8211; named after his hometown.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018Dippermouth Blues\u2019 &#8211; Joe \u2018King\u2019 Oliver &amp; Louis Armstrong<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018East Coast Trot\u2019 \u2013 Jimmy Blythe (1926) (Johnny Dodds may have co-written)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018Fidgety Feet\u2019 \u2013 Nick LaRocca &amp; Larry Shields (1919)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018Isle of Capri\u2019 \u2013 (m) Wilhelm Grosz (aka Hugh Williams), (l) by Jimmy Kennedy (1934)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018The Gettysburg Address\u2019 \u2013 (m) Peter Morgan Thall (1957), (l) Abraham Lincoln (1863)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018Bourbon Street Parade\u2019 \u2013 Paul Barbarin (c. 1953)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams\u2019 \u2013 (m) Harry Barris, (l) Ted Koehler &amp; Billy Moll (1931)<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIKE BARRY\u2019S UPTOWN GANG was the band here at the FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB on 2nd May 2014 Band leader Mike (trumpet\/vocals) had booked GOFF DUBBER on clarinet\/saxes\/vocals, \u2018WHISPERING\u2019 MIKE HOLT on trombone\/vocals, GRAHAM BARTON on piano, ROGER CURPHEY on string bass and GRAHAM COLLICOTT on drums. The evening was another success, with such songs as [&hellip;]<\/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-558","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\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}