Mein Vater hat ihn in den Sechzigern wohl unzählige Male live gesehen – worum ich ihn beneide!
As luck would have it, in 1960, the famous blues-singer/piano-player Champion Jack Dupree decided to move to Zurich, Switzerland for several years – which marked the beginning of a long musical and personal friendship between Chris and the black bluesman from New Orleans. It is Chris, 19 at the time, who can be heard as backing guitarist under the name of „Stuff Lange“ on Dupree‘s 1961‘s recordings for the Folkways and Sonet/Storyville record labels. During the following years Chris was practically „at home“ in Zurich’s legendary Jazzclub „Africana“, where he performed at countless blues-sessions with Dupree and other wellknown musicians.
Quelle: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/featheredapple/langebaracudas.html
Von Chris Lange bei Youtube reingestellt, mit folgendem Kommentar:
This is a 3-track selection of my early sixties recordings (they were issued for the first time on the cd album „Rusty Strings“ in 2005).
The first song „Woodchopper Blues“ (an old work song) is sung by Champion Jack Dupree, with me on lead guitar. This was recorded early in January 1961. It was done as a demo recording for the planned album „The Women Blues Of Champion Jack Dupree“ for the Folkways label.The second tune „It’s Boogie Time“ was recorded one year later in February 1962, backed by some musicians, who were around me then in my small recording studio.
The last tune „Christmas Blues“ was recorded on December 26th, 1961, some three months after our recording session with Jack Dupree for Storyville Records in Denmark. I play both guitar parts here, rhythm and lead, on an acoustic instrument.
Über „DuPree“ im Zürcher Tearoom berichtete auch Ralph Gleason, der dean der kalifornischen Jazzkritik, 1964 im Milwaukee Journal:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19640229&id=M-UpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YicEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3923,3884413&hl=en
(Mani Neumeier spielte damals im Africana gemeinsam mit Irène Schweizer in einer Soul Jazz Combo.)
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