Author: Barriteau, Carl (1914-1998)
Title: Jazz Jamboree, 1943. Stoll Theatre, Kingsway. Sunday October 24th, 1943
Description: London: 1943. Original Programme with 13 bands, including Carl Barriteau's. 4pp. Folded with tear on a fold. Signed by Carl Barriteau. Carl Barriteau, clarinet and saxophone player and bandleader: born Trinidad 7 February 1914; died Sydney, Australia 24 August 1998 Carl Alrich Stanley Barriteau was a jazz clarinetist. Born in Trinidad, Barriteau was raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He played tenor horn in Trinidad from 1926 to 1932, then played clarinet in a local police band from 1933 to 1936. In 1937 Barriteau moved to Britain and joined the West Indian Swing Band band led by Ken "Snake Hips" Johnson, a jazz trumpeter with whom he toured variety halls and played night club bookings. They made several recordings including a successful version of "Tuxedo Junction" (1940). Late 1939 the band began a residency at the Cafe de Paris in London. The band was playing there when the building was bombed during an air raid in March 1941. Johnson was killed and Barriteau was badly injured. He made a good recovery and went on to work as a featured soloist with a series of wartime bands including those led by Lew Stone, Ambrose, Chappie D'Amato, Eric Winstone and Joe Loss. From 1942 he played regularly at the weekly Sunday jam sessions held in London at the Feldman Club at 100 Oxford Street. Barriteau formed his own West Indian Dance Orchestra which worked and broadcast from London. He made a double-sided recording of Artie Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet that displayed his great agility on the instrument. His playing here came closer to Shaw's than anyone else's had. Barriteau spent the rest of the war years touring with the band and recording for the Decca label. As the war ended took the band on a tour to play for British forces in Europe. He took the band into the Embassy Club in London. He was the star of the Melody Maker's 1947 "Jazz Rally" and the 78rpm records of the concerts outsold any other British jazz records of the time. In 1949 he began a two-year residency at the Eldorado Ballroom in Leith, Scotland. This may not have been financially rewarding: a visitor to Barriteau's flat in the town remembers that he was loathe to leave it as he benefited from a free gas supply. He had modified the gas meter so that he could put a shilling in the slot and then, when it had been credited, could persuade the meter to regurgitate the coin. He emigrated to Australia in 1970, became an Australian citizen and settled in Sydney, using this as a base for widespread touring throughout Australasia and the Orient. .
Keywords: jazz
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Title: Jazz Jamboree, 1943. Stoll Theatre, Kingsway. Sunday October 24th, 1943
Description: London: 1943. Original Programme with 13 bands, including Carl Barriteau's. 4pp. Folded with tear on a fold. Signed by Carl Barriteau. Carl Barriteau, clarinet and saxophone player and bandleader: born Trinidad 7 February 1914; died Sydney, Australia 24 August 1998 Carl Alrich Stanley Barriteau was a jazz clarinetist. Born in Trinidad, Barriteau was raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He played tenor horn in Trinidad from 1926 to 1932, then played clarinet in a local police band from 1933 to 1936. In 1937 Barriteau moved to Britain and joined the West Indian Swing Band band led by Ken "Snake Hips" Johnson, a jazz trumpeter with whom he toured variety halls and played night club bookings. They made several recordings including a successful version of "Tuxedo Junction" (1940). Late 1939 the band began a residency at the Cafe de Paris in London. The band was playing there when the building was bombed during an air raid in March 1941. Johnson was killed and Barriteau was badly injured. He made a good recovery and went on to work as a featured soloist with a series of wartime bands including those led by Lew Stone, Ambrose, Chappie D'Amato, Eric Winstone and Joe Loss. From 1942 he played regularly at the weekly Sunday jam sessions held in London at the Feldman Club at 100 Oxford Street. Barriteau formed his own West Indian Dance Orchestra which worked and broadcast from London. He made a double-sided recording of Artie Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet that displayed his great agility on the instrument. His playing here came closer to Shaw's than anyone else's had. Barriteau spent the rest of the war years touring with the band and recording for the Decca label. As the war ended took the band on a tour to play for British forces in Europe. He took the band into the Embassy Club in London. He was the star of the Melody Maker's 1947 "Jazz Rally" and the 78rpm records of the concerts outsold any other British jazz records of the time. In 1949 he began a two-year residency at the Eldorado Ballroom in Leith, Scotland. This may not have been financially rewarding: a visitor to Barriteau's flat in the town remembers that he was loathe to leave it as he benefited from a free gas supply. He had modified the gas meter so that he could put a shilling in the slot and then, when it had been credited, could persuade the meter to regurgitate the coin. He emigrated to Australia in 1970, became an Australian citizen and settled in Sydney, using this as a base for widespread touring throughout Australasia and the Orient. .
Keywords: jazz
Price: US$ 175.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-1312
- Book number: 51-1312
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