Category: Jump, Jive & Swing Catalogue

KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS: HEY, PUERTO RICO!

Catalogue number BEARCD46

What does the title ‘King Pleasure’ evoke? In this context it suggests eating, drinking, spending money, chasing chicks, having a good time, overdoing it more than somewhat and explaining the events of the night before to the judge on the morning after. All apt topics for song and celebration, especially in these grim times. So much pop music nowadays is full of anger and violence on the one hand, and slack-jawed stupidity on the other, and so much contemporary jazz is excessively earnest and glum, that we are in urgent need of music that comes with a cheer-up guarantee. That is exactly what King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys unfailingly deliver.

They’re the genuine article, in  full working order, dedicated to shaking you up and swinging you into the middle of next week. They’ve got King Pleasure’s inimitable stogies – and – bourbon voice, they’ve got a roaring band sound that comes at you like the Wabash Cannonball, and above all they’ve got that beat. In the words of the immortal Lord Buckley ‘Rhythm is the key to everything – runs the whole swingin’ thing’.

Dave Gelly

Track Listing

1. Puerto Rico
2. Bring It On Baby
3. Back To Birmingham
4. The Wrong Door
5. Hush Now
6. Barracuda
7. Don’t Leave Me Baby
8. Blues From The Booze
9. Big Girl
10. Trapped In The Web Of Love
11. All Or Nothing
12. Blow Her Hot
13. Just One Drink
14. Walkin’ With Mr Lee

Musicians featured

King Pleasure ( Vocals & Baritone Saxophone)

Boysie Battrum (Alto & Tenor Saxophone)

Bullmoose K Shirley (Guitar)

Mighty Matt Foundling (Piano)

Shark Van Schtoop (Double Bass)

Dangerous Dave Wilkes (Drums)

DR TEETH BIG BAND: RHYTHM IS OUR BUSINESS

Catalogue number BEARCD45

I suppose if you had to find a musical label for this dark professor of the dentures and his gangland crew, it would have to be jump and jive. But the Doctor Teeth Big Band call on a wide range of influences as they deliver the goods. Yes, there’s the rolling boogie that goes right back to Louis Jordan, the godfather of the genre, but a great deal more too. The good Doctor’s prescription includes a cocktail of influence which seem to me to encompass everything from 1940s B-movies to The Blues Brothers, via jazz and RnB. And of course, that most desirable quality so noticeably absent from a great deal of what goes on in music these days. In short the six-letter word frowned upon by the so-called intellectuals who like to tell us what we should be listening to. And that, of course, is humour.

One ecstatic reviewer wrote after an Albrighton all-nighter: “Nothing had prepared us for the impact of DTBB. This eight piece almost blew the windows out from the very first note.” Well check your double glazing, lock up your daughters and then – only-then – press play!”

Digby Fairweather

Track Listing

1. Rhythm Is Our Business
2. The Show Show
3. Rock This Joint
4. Spread A Little Love And Get High
5. Ruby In The Red Dress
6. One Woman Man
7. Bump And Grind
8. Hey Brother, Can You Spare Some Jive?
9. Cold Cold Ground
10. Mr Big Is Back In Town

Musicians Featured

Dr Teeth – Vocals

Simon “The Duke Of” Kemp – Piano/Organ/Harmonica

Clancy D’Ockra – Guitar

Moreton Pinknee – Drums

Chris “The Jive Lobster” Mapp – Upright Bass

Jay “Choo Choo Ch” Moody – Tenor Sax

Mike (Double Meat) Adlington – Trumpet

Simon (Let The Good Times Roll) Robilliard – Trombone

LET ‘EM ROLL

Catalogue number BEARCD43

Track Listing

1. Let ‘Em Roll
2. I Said It And I’m Glad
3. Not Yet
4. Everybody Gets Together
5. Can’t Get Enough
6. Lover Come Back To Me
7. Come Back To Sorrento

KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS: SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE

Catalogue number BEARCD42

Track Listing

1.  Girl  With The Gold Dress On
2. Smack Dab In The Middle
3. Happy As A Fella Can Be
4. Can’t Get Enough Of Your Stuff
5. Red Headed Woman
6. Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)?
7. Great Great Pleasure
8. Ain’t  It Lonesome
9. Your Cash Ain’t Nothing But Trash
10. Fat Sam From Birmingham
11. It Don’t  Happen No More
12. Soft Pillow
13. Mush Mouth
14. Forgive A Fool
15. Be Good Or Be Gone
16. I’ll Be Satisfied
17. Tight Skirts
18. Big Wheel
19. I’m The Boss In My House

Musicians featured

King Pleasure (Vocals, Tenor Saxophone)

Big Mally Baxter (Trumpet)

P.  Popps Martin (Alto/Baritone Saxophones)

Julian Webster-Greaves (Tenor Saxophone)

Ivory Dan McCormack (Piano/ Hammond)

Bullmoose K Shirley (Guitar)

Slap Happy (Double Bass)

Bam-Bam Beresford (Drums)

KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS: BLUES & RHYTHM REVUE VOLUME 1

Catalogue number BEARCD41

Track Listing:

1. Kidney Stew Blues
2. What More Do You Want Me To Do
3. Blues For My Baby
4. That’s The Way To Treat Your Woman
5. Since I Fell For You
6. Let The Good Times Roll
7. Fools Paradise
8. What Can I Do?
9. Harward Blues
10. Now Baby Or Never
11. So Tired
12. Tear Drop From My Eyes

KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS: LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT’S

Catalogue number BEARCD37

KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS: BETTER BEWARE

Catalogue number BEARCD35

KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS: THIS IS IT!

Catalogue number BEARCD32

Track Listing

1. Mr Blues Is Coming To Town
2. Squeeze Me
3. Lovin’ Machine
4. Bongo Boogie
5. Fish Man
6. House Party
7. Jumpin’ From 6 to 6
8. This Is It
9. Why Don’t You Do Right?
10. Train Kept A-Rollin’
11. Bad Bad Whiskey
12. Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee

BEAR30: KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS

Track Listing:

King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys

1. That’s A Groovy Thing
2. Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
3. Quiet Whiskey
4. Shotgun Boogie
5. Pretty Eyed Baby
6. Ain’t Enough Room Here to Boogie
7. Steppin’ Out
8. Reet Petite And Gone
9. Look Out Mountain
10. Hide And Seek
11. Voo-It
12. Flirting With The Blues