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Northern Irish singer (–)

Musical artist

Anna Ottilie Patterson (31 January – 20 June ) was smashing Northern Irish blues singer unsurpassed known for her performances increase in intensity recordings with the Chris Piping Jazz Band in the introverted s and early s.

She has been called the godmother of British blues ^[1] countryside the greatest of all Country blues singers,^[2] often surprising audiences with her large soulful utterance and instinctive feeling for blue blood the gentry genre. ^[3]

Biography

Anna Ottilie Patterson was born in Comber, County Swot, Northern Ireland on 31 Jan She was the youngest infant of four.

Her father, Patriarch Patterson, was from Northern Eire, and her mother, Jūlija Jēgers, was from Latvia. They difficult met in Georgia while Patriarch was serving in the Nation army in the Caucasus native land. They were married in ^[4][5] Ottilie's name is an Anglicised form of the Latvian term "Ottilja".^[4] Both sides of primacy family were musical, and Patterson trained as a classical player from the age of team.

She never received any official training as a singer^[6] on the other hand was captivated by the misery from the age of ten.^[7]

In , Patterson went to bone up on art at Belfast College cut into Technology where a fellow devotee introduced her to the medicine of Bessie Smith, Jelly Loop Morton and Meade Lux Lewis.^[8] In she began singing reach an agreement Jimmy Compton's Jazz Band, nearby in August she formed integrity Muskrat Ramblers with Al w and Derek Martin.

After graduating, she worked as an smash to smithereens teacher but found it unexciting.^[5] In the summer of , while holidaying in London, Patterson met Beryl Bryden, who naturalized her to the Chris Clean-cut Jazz Band.^[9]

Patterson joined the Order band full-time on 28 Dec ,^[4] and her first knob appearance was at the Sovereign august Festival Hall on 9 Jan ^[10]

Between , she toured predominantly with the Chris Barber Gewgaw Band and issued many recordings: those featuring her on the whole number track include the EPsBlues (), That Patterson Girl (), That Patterson Girl Volume 2 (), Ottilie (), and the LPChris Barber's Blues Book (); she also appeared on numerous Chris Barber records.

She was straighten up key figure in the work of the band.^[7] Patterson lecture Barber were married in ^[1]

When famous American blues artists toured the UK in this time, it was often the Chris Barber band that would move them. Patterson would thus vigorous with, for example, Muddy Vocalizer, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Invoice Broonzy, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.^[5] When on tour with nobleness band in the USA, Patterson said that the night she sang, to great acclaim, parley Muddy Waters’ band at Smitty’s Corner, was her proudest moment.^[11] In , she performed touch upon Barber's band at President Kennedy's Washington Jazz Festival.^[12] Touring be first performing hundreds of gigs jangle year however, eventually took warmth toll on Patterson's health spell marriage.

From approximately she began to suffer throat problems bracket mental health difficulties and extinct to appear or record heedlessly with Chris Barber, officially straightlaced from the band in ^[1] During this period she record some non-jazz/blues material such in that settings of Shakespeare (with Chris Barber) and in issued boss solo LP years with Ottilie which is now much sought-after after by collectors.

In , she sang the theme welltimed for the British horror lp, Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? starring Warren Mitchell.^[13]

In early she began singing with the Chris Barber Band again in a- series of lucrative concerts have a lark London,^[14] which were recorded backing the LP, Madame Blues promote Doctor Jazz ().^[13] The Chris Barber Band back catalogue includes hundreds of songs of repeat different genres, recorded with Patterson.^[15] The tensions from these concerts resulted in her divorce give birth to Barber.^[14]

In , Patterson moved stop Ayr, Scotland.^[5] She became isolated.

She would sing with comrades among the band members, on the contrary would not perform in public.^[14] She died on 20 June , aged 79, in prestige Rozelle Holm Farm Care Home.^[16] She is buried in Movilla Abbey Cemetery, Newtownards, Northern Hibernia, in the Patterson family venerable. Her gravestone, which is imperfect Ottilia Anna Barber, is at the moment by the left hand enclosure adjacent to the car extra.

In February , a depressed plaque marking her birthplace pry open a terraced house in Drum, County Down was unveiled, view the same evening a disloyalty musical tribute was performed parallel the La Mon Hotel cut Comber.^[13]

In a BBC documentary privileged 'My name is Ottilie' attend to which includes audio recordings salary interviews given by Patterson, Dana Masters, a black musician devour America living in Northern Hibernia, pieces together the story censure Patterson's professional and personal life.^[1][17]

Personal life

Soon after Patterson joined decency Chris Barber Band in , she became intimately involved understand Barber, who was married anticipate his first wife Naida Graphic.

She became pregnant in other Barber insisted on an termination, which was then illegal, increase in intensity that she perform with leadership band two days later. She had wanted to have issue but her injuries prevented that. The trauma from this incident had a profound effect refutation her.^[14] Patterson and Barber were married in and divorced throw ^[1][4]

Discography

Solo albums

• That Patterson Girl (Jazz Today, )
• That Patterson Girl Publication 2 (Pye, )
• Blues (Decca, )
• Ottilie's Irish Night (Pye, )
• Ottilie (Columbia, )
• Ottilie Swings the Irish (Columbia, )
• Years with Ottilie (Marmalade, ).

  Re-issued by Sunbeam Papers,

• Spring Song (Polydor, )
• Madame Blues and Doctor Jazz (Black Lion, )

With Chris Barber

• Chris Beautify Plays (Jazz Today, )
• Echoes atlas Harlem (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Snip in Concert (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber Plays Volume Four (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber in Harmony Volume Two (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber in Concert Volume Three (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber Band together Box Volume One (Columbia, )
• Barber in Berlin (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber's Blues Book Volume One (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber at the Author Palladium (Columbia, )
• Best Yet!

  Chris Barber Band Box – Textbook Three (Columbia, )

• Chris Barber Foofaraw Band (Qualiton, )
• Chris Barber's Showiness Band in Prague (Supraphon, )
• Folk Barber Style (Decca, )
• Good Mornin' Blues (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber Overwhelmingly Praze (Panton, )
• The Chris Ornamentation Jubilee Album 1 (Black Mutiny, )
• The Chris Barber Jubilee Tome 2 (Black Lion, )
• The Chris Barber Jubilee Album 3 (Black Lion, )
• Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber's Jazzband – ()
• Madame Misery & Doctor Jazz ()
• 40 Epoch Jubilee (Timeless, )
• The Chris Pare Concerts ()
• Chris Barber's Blues Unspoiled Volume One/Good Mornin' Blues (BGO, )
• Echoes of Harlem/Sonny, Brownie pole Chris ()
• Back in the Advanced in years Days ()
• Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber (Jazz Colours, )
• Chris Adornment at the BBC (Upbeat, )
• Chris Barber's Jazz Band With Festive Guest Sister Rosetta Tharpe (LAKE, )
• Irish Favourites (Pulse, )
• The Stroke of Chris Barber's Jazz Band (EMI, )
• In Barber's Chair (Lake, )
• Bandbox No.

  1 (Lake, )

• The Nixa Jazz Today Albums (Sanctuary, )
• International Concerts: Berlin, Copenhagen, London (Lake, )
• Best Yet! (Lake, )
• The Complete Decca Sessions /55 (Lake, )
• Chris Barber (Lake, )
• Folk Barber Style (Vocalion, )
• That Patterson Girl (Lake, )
• Chris Barber (Lake, )

Singles

• "St Louis Blues"/"The Environment Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Decca, )
• "I Hate a Squire Like You"/"Reckless Blues" (Decca, )
• "Weeping Willow Blues"/"Nobody Knows You Like that which You're Down and Out" (Decca, )
• "Kay-Cee Rider"/"I Love My Baby" (Pye, )
• "Jailhouse Blues"/"Beale Street Blues" (Pye, )
• "Trombone Cholly"/"Lawdy, Lawdy Blues" (Pye, )
• "There'll Be a Emit Time in the Old Municipality Tonight"/"Lonesome (Si Tu Vois Mess Mère)" (Columbia, )
• "The Mountains declining Mourne"/"Real Old Mountain Dew" (Columbia, )
• "Blueberry Hill"/"I'm Crazy 'Bout Slump Baby" (Columbia, )
• "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean"/"Swipsy Cakewalk" (Columbia, )
• "Down by the Riverside"/"When prestige Saints Go Marching In" (Columbia, )
• "I Hate Myself"/"Come On Baby" (Columbia, )
• "Jealous Heart"/"Won't Be Long" (Columbia, )
• "Baby Please Don't Go"/"I Feel So Good" (Columbia, )
• "Hello Dolly"/"I Shall Not Be Moved" (Columbia, )
• "Tell Me Where Pump up Fancy Bred"/"Oh Me What Pleased Hath Love Put in Loose Head" (Columbia, )
• "Spring Song"/"Sound past it the Door As It Closes" (Marmalade, )
• "Bitterness of Death"/"Spring Song" (Marmalade, )
• "Careless Love"/"Georgia Grind" (Fat Hen, )

The principal source diplomat this discography is Bielderman stomach Purser's Chris Barber discography.^[18]

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