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A CAMPUS SIX CONSPECTUS

In 1964 the University Jazz Band was fortunate in securing the fine Adelaide trumpeter Bill Munro as its lead player. After some further changes, the band emerged as the Campus Six, performing regularly for more than a decade in clubs, hotels, at concerts and special events, and on local radio and television. From early on the Campus Six developed its own style, influenced by the jazz tradition and based on emphatic collective and individual improvisation by band members within a predetermined conceptual framework.

This Conspectus gives an aural impression of the band between 1965 and 1973, notwithstanding some variations in personnel, captures its distinctive sound and approach to the repertoire, covering moods ranging from the rollicking to the reflective.

PERSONNEL

Bill Munro — trumpet, flugel horn
Rod Porter — clarinet
Ernie Alderslade — trombone, euphonium
John Malpas —banjo, guitar
Bob Loft — bass on tracks 1-7
Jerry Wesley —bass on other tracks, vocal track 16
Keith Conlon — drums

On tracks 13, 14 Gordon Coulson replaces Alderslade
On tracks 10-12 Norm Koch replaces Malpas
On tracks 13, 14 Martin Wesley-Smith replaces Malpas
John Aue — guitar is added on track 17
Concepts are by Rod Porter except for track 13 by Gordon Coulson
and track 16 by Jerry Wesley

1. AT A GEORGIA CAMP MEETING (K, Mills) b

2. STRANGE BLUES (J. Mannone) b

3. THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES b

4. A MONDAY DATE (E Hines) b

5. JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE (Trad) b

6. SHIMME-SHA-WABBLE (S. Williams) b

7. BASIN STREET BLUES (S. Williams) b

8. THEM THERE EYES (Pinkard-Tracy-Tanker) b

9. BEALE STREET BLUES (Handy) b

10. CORRINE CORRINA (Williams-Chatman-Parish) b

11. SO SAD THIS EVENING (Unknown) a

12. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS (Alter-Deiange) a

13. ORY’S CREOLE TROMBONE (E. Ory) c

14. MUDDY WATER (DeRose-Richman-Trent) c

15. BOURBON STREEET PARADE (P.Barbarin) d

16. I’LL NEVER BE THE SAME (Signorelli-Malneck-Kahn) d

17. GOOSE PIMPLES (Trent-Henderson) f

18. OLD ROCKIN’ CHAIR (H. Carmichael) e

19. CANAL STREET BLUES (J. Oliver) e

20. MANDY, MAKE UP YOUR MIND (Meyer-Johnson-Turk-Clarke) b

a-Adelaide, July 1965. b-Adelaide, April 1966. c-Adelaide, March 1969
d- Adelaide, September 1969. e- Concert, Adelaide, August 1972
f- Adelaide, June 1973.