Billy Barber

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风格: #成人另类
地区: 欧美

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by Eugene ChadbourneFiguring out which of the many pieces of music that this artist helped create has been heard the most times and by the largest audience is quite simple: that would have to be the original theme from the television soap opera All My Children. Fusion jazz fans who dont watch daytime television — if there are any such creatures — might be shocked to find out this theme was plucked from an album entitled This Is a Recording by the band Flim & the BBs. Barber contributes mightily to most of the recordings by this outfit, both as a composer and player. The bands name is based on the presence of several players whose initials are the same as the notorious toy rifle ammunition; drummer Bill Berg is another. The keyboardist is himself the son of pianist, composer, and saxophonist William C. Barber, also sometimes credited as Bill Barber Sr.. Both father and son jam on a delightful Flim & the BBs track entitled Fathers and Sons, naturally, also featuring the other musically talented parents of bandmembers Jimmy Flim Johnson and Dick Oatts. The Barber family musical tradition also has continued on into a third generation; Billy Barber has created a series of recordings with a family band known as the Barbers, featuring two of his children.Barbers mother was also a pianist and singer; the son may have begun studying orchestration and songwriting just to have a niche of his own. As a writer, Barbers often-sentimental tunes such as Little Things have been covered by Ray Charles and the Oak Ridge Boys. Soap operas are not the only vehicle for his background music, which has also been heard on Jane Fondas childrens videos, the American Chronicles series, Face the Nation, and The Splendid Table on National Public Radio. Flim & the BBs have been twice nominated for Grammy awards. Barber has also released several solo piano recordings that dabble in both mainstream jazz and new age styles and has written childrens songs and sang and played them on releases by the Music Workshop for Children. Beginning in the 70s, a variety of folk artists also utilized Barbers piano stylings on their recording sessions, including Leo Kottke, Jim Post, and Bill Camplin. Barber also produced several of the latter artists efforts. Pianist and composer Dan Friedman created a piece entitled Lizbarber in honor of Barber and pianist Liz Story.