That's a Plenty Bowden Colin/Chris Barber 1990

That's a Plenty - Bowden Colin/Chris Barber 1990

November 2010

Over 350 000 of you have already seen the youtube postings on my Barber site, but with great pleasure I enclose Chris Barber's request. Have fun!

Chris Barber.

To:erwigfilms.
Dear user,
As the official representatives of Chris Barber and The Big Chris Barber Band, may we request that you include a link to the official Chris Barber Youtube channel in the description of your Chris Barber videos, and that you also include a link to Chris Barber's official webite. Please find these links below.
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Colin Bowden - Drums
Colin was born in Hampstead Heath, London in 1932 and lives in Suffolk. He remembers at the age of ten seeing through a village hall window a drummer performing live and feeling that he had discovered Eldorado! Some years later, after conscription service with the RAF he renovated an old drum kit which he had bought from a workmate who was cleaning out an attic. It was late 1952. Colin was collecting Spike Jones records until he heard "Oh, Didn't He Ramble?" and that 78rpm disc by Jelly Roll Morton put him firmly on the jazz trail. Over the years main influences have been Baby Dodds, Big Sid Catlett and Art Blakey along with all the others. He is generally regarded as the finest New Orleans drummer in Europe.
Colin was invited to be part of the 40th Anniversary tour of Chris Barber's Jazz Band. Colin played in this band's concert as it was some 40 years before. Although I believe that Colin then wasn't a member of the band he certainly must have played with them as a substitute. In the sixties and seventies Colin was the permanent drummer of Ken Colyer's Jazzmen.
We see Colin being featured on drums in that particularily interesting Baby Dodds styled approach in the tune "That's a Plenty"

Category:

Music

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• jazz
• classic
• revival
• barber
• bowden

[re6356]

Bloody GREAT!!!!!

[jotamissa]

Hi Bob

nice That's a plenty

congratulations.

J F Missali-BR

[royn99]

Agreed bloody great

[drjazzisme]

BRILLIANT JAZZ,,SUPERB DRUMMING,,COLINS ALWAYS AT BUDE FESTIVAL..ITS WORTH GOING IF ONLY TO HEAR THE BANDS HE PLAYS IN,,GET AND SEE/HEAR THE LEGEND WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME.AT LEAST 5 STARS FOR THIS.TA FOR SHARING.

[ww245]

Hope I can drum like this guy sometime. I'm 52 now and hope to at least a little while before I go to the band in the sky lol.

[monteleone1010]

that's a plenty is one of the best jazz-dixieland numbers ever written, even more so when played by CB

[godsmacks1]

we do this song for our show choir and we kick ass at it!

[MIKESOWELL]

Jackie Gleason was swingin' in Heaven to this

[hamfist]

You are totally right! I was in the NZ Air Force and was assigned to train in Bomber Command in 1958 and I went to a Barber concert in Cambridgeshire with those in this clip. Fantastic!!! Ian