Sho-Time At The Colony Club - Bill Coburn

 

Sho-Time At The Colony Club

Sho-Time At The Colony Club

Bill Coburn's Dixieland Band

Recording Engineer: Robert K. Dye, P. E.

Jacket and Label Design: David Bartholomew

Band Photos: Ed Johnson (Journal-Hearld)

Colony Records VT-104

QCA - Queen City Album - Cincinnati, Ohio

60576

Bill Coburn - Trombone

Vic Tooker - Banjo & Piano

Syl LaFata - Clarinet

Bob Winged - Cornet

Gene May - Tuba

Kenny Hall - Drums

From the back cover: Being a platter-purveyor (I hate the term D.J.) I'm supposed to be relatively glib with words and phrases... but when Bill Coburn approached me to write the liner notes for his first album I was appalled at the task set before me for Bill said it was to be an all-Dixieland release and he knows I HATE DIXIELAND! Well, that may be too strong a phrase. Let's put it this way... I don't enjoy Dixieland on recordings. I do enjoy it in person, "Live", as they say, in living color as performed nightly at Jim Sullivan's Colony Club in Dayton, Ohio. Until this album, I felt that Dixieland music per se loses its exuberant spontaneity when faced with the cold, sterile confines of a recording studio. The sounds contained herein completely disprove my theory, as you'll find out at first listen.

Bill Coburn (Trombone and Leader), Vic Tooker (Banjo, Piano and What-have-you), Syl LaFata (Clarinet), Bob Winged (Cornet), Gene May (Tuba) and Ken Hall (Drums) combine to illustrate the utter happiness of the real, true Dixieland and convey the spirit and essence of this basically Southern music.

Not the warmth of Wingett's vocal on "Lazy River" and Tooker's languid piano on same. Dixieland spiced with oregano is offered on "Oh, Marie" and the bluest kind of blues is portrayed on "Wabash Blues" utilizing some melancholy and seldom-heard single-sting banjo. Bill's "Teagarden" vocal on "Basin Street Blues" and Vic's "Satchmo" voice joining in on "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" demonstrate the group's versatility. On "Wabash Blues" Leader Bill shows the correct usage of the famed "plumber's helper" as he plunges into his solo... there's a pun there somewhere, man. All through the album there's a steady beat that can only be laid down with drums, banjo and tuba, but delicately tip-toeing through it all, is the consummately tasteful clarinet of Mr. LaFata.

Next time you're in Dayton, stop at Jim Sullivan's Colony Club... have a hefty steak or an artfully prepared Chateaubriand... a bottle of St. Emilion or Medoc... then adjourn to the band-bar and truly become part of some of the happiest sounds in the world... Bill Coburn's Colony Club Jazz Band... until then, open this album... put it on the turntable and "Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy!!!" – Notes by B.W. (Dayton's Leading Platter-purveyor)

Oh, Marie

Muskrat Ramble

Basin Street Blues

Runnin' Wild

Lazy River

Who's Sorry Now?

Saints

Vic's Banjo Medley

Wabash Blues

San Francisco 

Tin Roof Blues

Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?

Bourbon Street Parade