KILLER CARL BARRITEAU 78 A SULTAN GOES TO HARLEM / OL' MAN MOSE DECCA F8457 V+E-
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Description
THIS IS A KILLER
CARL BARRITEAU AND HIS ORCHESTRA
" A SULTAN GOES TO HARLEM "
(Barriteau, recorded Feb 23rd 1944)
b/w " OL' MAN MOSE "
IF YOU LIKE SWING - THIS IS THE THING...
this rarely comes up and is one of my personal favourites featured on one of our Shellac Collective CDs
Carl Barriteau was born in Trinidad, West Indies in 1914. He received his first musical tuition at the Belmont Orphanage in Trinidad and later gigged with Bert McLean's Jazz Hounds before moving to Britain in May, 1937. Twelve days later he joined Ken "Snakehips" Johnson's band to play alto sax and clarinet.
The clarinet had now become his main instrument and his style became neare to Artie Shaw than Benny Goodman. He worked with Johnson until the air raid at the Cafe de Paris in March, 1941 that killed the leader and seriously injured Barriteau with a broken wrist.
Later in 1941 Barriteau reformed Johnson's band for a handful of Jazz Jamboree concerts and some BBC dates before forming his own band at the Cotton Club. Work followed with Lew Stone, Ambrose, Hatchett's Swingtette and Geraldo before he formed his own West Indian Dance Orchestra for gigs and radio work in May 1942.
For the rest of the war he led his own bands for radio, variety tours and in 1945 toured Europe for ENSA
DISC DETAILS
UK DECCA F 8457 10" SHELLAC 78rpm CONDITION - V+/E-
SCUFFS AND MARKS BUT PLAYS GREAT!
label may differ slightly from stock photo
DON'T MISS OUT - BUY NOW!
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