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 WHERE'S THAT TIGER ?

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    TRACKS

               MUSICIANS
  1 Wolverine Blues Roger Marks (tbn/ldr)
2 Yes Sir, That's My Baby John Shillito (tpt/vocs)
  3 Just Once For All Time Ken Rennison (ten/alto/sop)
  4 Birth Of The Blues John Whitlock (bjo/gtr)
  5 Jazz Me Blues Bob Jarvis (e.bs)
6 Buona Serra Denny Hutchinson (dms)
  7 Tea For Two  
  8 Running Wild  
  9 I Can't Give You Anything But Love  
  10 From Monday On  
  11 Shake It And Break It  
  12 At A Georgia Camp Meeting  
  13 Tiger Rag  


In the planning for a new CD it is necessary to make a number of executive decisions that will greatly influence the character of the end product.
What venue shall we use?
Do we want a studio or live recording?
How many sessions shall we require?
What tunes shall we attempt?
What rhythms, what combinations of stomps, rags, blues, ballads and belters?

In the event, in this particular instance I decided upon two sessions, just weeks apart, both to be recorded at the acoustically friendly function room of the Three Horseshoes, Branscombe. So, the sessions would be live and hopefully we would amass sufficient material from the two to make one really good C.D.

Naturally we would attempt the numbers that we had put the most work into in the first session, and then if for any reason they weren't up to scratch we would have a second bite of the cherry one month later.

As luck would have it the first session went like a dream and almost all the targetted tunes came off well and were issued on the sister C.D. to this one entitled "High Society" (Raymer Sound RSCD744).

All well and good, but now what were we to do with the second session? I felt that since the venue and the recording engineers were already booked we might just as well go through with it. The only dilemma was to decide upon some more tunes, given that almost all of the titles on our original hit list were already 'in the can'.

As it happens the selection virtually picked itself. A pot-pourri of jazz classics and popular requests many of which arguably we should have got around to recording long ago - plus a sprinkling of more unusual speciality material such as Johnny Whitlock's 'Tea for Two' and John Shillito's 'From Monday On'. Also the elusive 'Shake It And Break It' captured at the umpteenth attempt, an unusually slow 'Yes Sir That's My Baby' - so much more interesting at this tempo, and an atmospheric 'Birth Of The Blues', with which, I must say, I am particularly pleased. It was good too, to record the shuffle, 'Buona Serra', always so popular in live performance, and Ken Rennison can be justly proud of his version of 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love', beautifully fluent and relaxed.

Oh yes, I must add that in 25 years of recording some 300 titles I personally have never recorded 'Tiger Rag' - so, at last, here's that tiger!

Roger Marks
December 2001

Where's That Tiger ? - Roger Marks Armada Jazz Band - RSCD747

Recorded live at the Three Horseshoes, Branscombe, Devon 20th October 2001
Thanks to Jan and John Moore and everyone at the Three Horseshoes
Recorded and produced by Raymer Sound (+44 (0)1823-662160)
Front insert design by  zzyzzy 

 

 

 

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