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Chris Barber's Jazz Band 1956 Bourbon Street Parade: recorded at the Royal Festival Hall London on December 15 1956. The signature tune and opening number. Issued as an LP "Chris Barber in Concert" (actually this is Volume 1 of a series of LPs). Bourbon Street Parade by Adolphe Paul Barbarin (May 5, 1899 -- February 17, 1969) was a New Orleans jazz drummer, usually regarded (along with Baby Dodds) as one of the very best of the pre-Big Band era jazz drummers. He studied under the famed drummer, Louis Cottrell, Sr. Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but his brother Louis Barbarin (born 1902) said he was quite sure that Paul was several years older than he was, and Paul Barbarin simply refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at Tulane's Jazz Archives. From the late 1910s on, Barbarin divided his time between Chicago, New York City and New Orleans, and touring with such bands as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Luis Russell, Louis Armstrong, and Henry Red Allen. Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in English) in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a Carnival celebration well-known throughout the world. The New Orleans Carnival season, starts on Twelfth Night, on Epiphany (January 6). It is a season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and king cake parties. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras in French), often refered to as Mardi Gras Day the day before Ash Wednesday. While many tourists center their Mardi Gras season activities on Bourbon Street and the French Quarter, none of the major Mardi Gras parades has entered the Quarter since 1972 because of its narrow streets and overhead obstructions. The Band: Pat Halcox Tp; Chris Barber Tb; Monty Sunshine Cl; Eddie Smith Bj; Dick Smith Bs; Ron Bowden Dr; Ottilie Patterson Voc. Track 01 of 11 Submitted: ULAJAZZ