The Best of Ball, Barber & Bilk
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The Best of Ball, Barber & Bilk is a compilation album consisting of tracks by British trumpeter Kenny Ball
, trombone player Chris Barber
and clarinetist and band leader Acker Bilk. The album reached number 1 in the UK, spending a week at the top in 1962. The album contains 4 tracks by each artist.
Kenny Ball
Kenny Ball is an English jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen.-Career:...
, trombone player Chris Barber
Chris Barber
Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber is best known as a jazz trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and vocalist/banjoist Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with...
and clarinetist and band leader Acker Bilk. The album reached number 1 in the UK, spending a week at the top in 1962. The album contains 4 tracks by each artist.
Tracklisting
- Jump In The Line
- Higher Ground
- Willie The Weeper
- Gladiolus Rag
- Teddy Bears' Picnic
- Hawaiian War Chant
- I Love You Samantha
- Chimes Blues
- Majorca
- High Society
- Tuxedo Rag
- When The Saints Go Marching In