Dans les Rues D'Antibes Climax Jazz Band 1976

Dans les Rues D'Antibes Climax Jazz Band 1976

Dans les Rues d'Antibes
This Sidney Bechet tune has always one of my favourite songs. A year before Jim Buchmann from Portland Oregon had moved to Toronto to join our band. Jim is a master on the saxello.a straight B♭ soprano, but with a slightly curved neck and tipped bell last manufactured in the early thirties by the King Company. In this very first of more than 75 Appleyard shows we were very excited and I think it shows in our performance.
( Bob Erwig cornet, Jim Buchmann saxello, Geoff Holmes trombone, Jack Vincken banjo, Chris Daniels bass, Steve Tattersall drums.)
Many of you have seen some great jazz artists performing as guests on the Peter Appleyard shows produced between 1976 and 1979. More than 75 of these 25-minute shows were recorded by producer Bill Cooke.
It all started with a meeting between Bill and myself together with our trombonist Geoff Holmes.
Our Climax Jazz Band would be part of the "Pilot" project with an invited guest performer. That day we would record two shows. On behalf of Bill and his Company we invited New Orleans clarinettist Joe Cornbread and Carol Leigh from Connecticut.
On the day of the recording there was a lot of excitement in the air. The recording crew's first experience with a live jazz situation, our first jazz show and a totally sympathetic crowd.
All the Appleyard shows were recorded in a small room called Albert's Hall on the second floor of the Brunswick House, a famous pub in Toronto's University area on Bloor Street West.
Our band initially was formed in Albert's Hall in 1971 after having replied to a newspaper ad where owner Albert Nightingale asked for a dixie band. He hoped to have more success with jazz than with the wrestling dwarfs we would replace. We stayed there for about five years.

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[jazzlovr]

oh those were the glory days. I remember the early days of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, Climax was one of our biggest draws. I miss the old days sigh...

[drjaazzz]

A huge treat to see the circa '76 group which was my all time favorite at the Sacramento Jazz Festival during those memorable early years with the atomospheric venues of the then still OLD Old Town. I had the pleasure of making a small contribution one year by somehow finding a guy to drill one of (I think it was Tattershal's) crash symbols to stop a developing crack. And now more fun to be able to catch up with the CJB over the years via this marvelous medium. Cheers.

[cardencommachris]

I have treasured your LPs since inheriting them from my old man, trumpeter Gary Carden of the Slabtown Marching Society. He would play your stuff right along the New Black Eagle Jazz Band and the DeParis Brothers. The best, for sure. Thanks for sharing the video!

[hombreelastico]

Bloody Hell!! You guys were ON FIRE . . . ! ! Wow, what a performance - I'd have loved to have been at that gig! It takes me right back to the 70s when I used to watch my dad's band and also seeing (and being lucky enough to sit in with) Sammy Rimington's bands during that period. The sheer excitement of great jazz served up as it should be: deliciously HOT (and with an audience just willing you on too). And to think it was either this or wrestling dwarfs... You gotta larf!