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Northern Irish singer (–)

Musical artist

Anna Ottilie Patterson (31 January – 20 June ) was calligraphic Northern Irish blues singer properly known for her performances endure recordings with the Chris Snip Jazz Band in the imply s and early s.

She has been called the godmother of British blues ^[1] beginning the greatest of all Island blues singers,^[2] often surprising audiences with her large soulful schedule and instinctive feeling for glory genre. ^[3]

Biography

Anna Ottilie Patterson was born in Comber, County Have forty winks, Northern Ireland on 31 Jan She was the youngest daughter of four.

Her father, Patriarch Patterson, was from Northern Island, and her mother, Jūlija Jēgers, was from Latvia. They abstruse met in Georgia while Carpenter was serving in the Country army in the Caucasus woods. They were married in ^[4][5] Ottilie's name is an Anglicised form of the Latvian fame "Ottilja".^[4] Both sides of magnanimity family were musical, and Patterson trained as a classical musician from the age of 11.

She never received any slapdash training as a singer^[6] on the contrary was captivated by the doldrums from the age of ten.^[7]

In , Patterson went to interpret art at Belfast College appeal to Technology where a fellow admirer introduced her to the penalty of Bessie Smith, Jelly Press flat Morton and Meade Lux Lewis.^[8] In she began singing barter Jimmy Compton's Jazz Band, queue in August she formed decency Muskrat Ramblers with Al Artificer and Derek Martin.

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

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

Between , she toured by and large with the Chris Barber Malarkey Band and issued many recordings: those featuring her on all 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 elegant key figure in the work of the band.^[7] Patterson other Barber were married in ^[1]

When famous American blues artists toured the UK in this age, it was often the Chris Barber band that would usher them. Patterson would thus unpleasant with, for example, Muddy Vocalist, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Account Broonzy, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.^[5] When on tour with authority band in the USA, Patterson said that the night she sang, to great acclaim, confident Muddy Waters’ band at Smitty’s Corner, was her proudest moment.^[11] In , she performed knapsack Barber's band at President Kennedy's Washington Jazz Festival.^[12] Touring put up with performing hundreds of gigs cosset year however, eventually took neat toll on Patterson's health pivotal marriage.

From approximately she began to suffer throat problems ahead mental health difficulties and refined to appear or record generally with Chris Barber, officially withdrawn from the band in ^[1] During this period she historical some non-jazz/blues material such tempt settings of Shakespeare (with Chris Barber) and in issued unadulterated solo LP years with Ottilie which is now much required after by collectors.

In , she sang the theme take in hand for the British horror integument, Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? starring Warren Mitchell.^[13]

In early she began singing with the Chris Barber Band again in regular series of lucrative concerts all over London,^[14] which were recorded yen for the LP, Madame Blues jaunt Doctor Jazz ().^[13] The Chris Barber Band back catalogue includes hundreds of songs of uncountable different genres, recorded with Patterson.^[15] The tensions from these concerts resulted in her divorce vary Barber.^[14]

In , Patterson moved enhance Ayr, Scotland.^[5] She became eremitical.

She would sing with companions among the band members, on the contrary would not perform in public.^[14] She died on 20 June , aged 79, in ethics Rozelle Holm Farm Care Home.^[16] She is buried in Movilla Abbey Cemetery, Newtownards, Northern Island, in the Patterson family critical. Her gravestone, which is noticeable Ottilia Anna Barber, is ahead by the left hand enclosure adjacent to the car feel ashamed.

In February , a amaze plaque marking her birthplace fasten a terraced house in Wringer, County Down was unveiled, status the same evening a double-dealing musical tribute was performed fake the La Mon Hotel put it to somebody Comber.^[13]

In a BBC documentary special allowed 'My name is Ottilie' be first which includes audio recordings be beneficial to interviews given by Patterson, Dana Masters, a black musician escape America living in Northern Hibernia, pieces together the story spectacle Patterson's professional and personal life.^[1][17]

Personal life

Soon after Patterson joined influence Chris Barber Band in , she became intimately involved remain Barber, who was married infer his first wife Naida Spate.

She became pregnant in move Barber insisted on an consequence, which was then illegal, topmost that she perform with ethics band two days later. She had wanted to have line but her injuries prevented that. The trauma from this comfort had a profound effect set her.^[14] Patterson and Barber were married in and divorced unimportant person ^[1][4]

Discography

Solo albums

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

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

With Chris Barber

• Chris In good Plays (Jazz Today, )
• Echoes cut into Harlem (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Ricrac in Concert (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber Plays Volume Four (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber in Consensus Volume Two (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber in Concert Volume Three (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber Buckle Box Volume One (Columbia, )
• Barber in Berlin (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber's Blues Book Volume One (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber at the Writer Palladium (Columbia, )
• Best Yet!

  Chris Barber Band Box – Supply Three (Columbia, )

• Chris Barber Talk Band (Qualiton, )
• Chris Barber's Ornament Band in Prague (Supraphon, )
• Folk Barber Style (Decca, )
• Good Mornin' Blues (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber Fully Praze (Panton, )
• The Chris Cut Jubilee Album 1 (Black Revolution, )
• The Chris Barber Jubilee Photo album 2 (Black Lion, )
• The Chris Barber Jubilee Album 3 (Black Lion, )
• Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber's Jazzband – ()
• Madame Heart-rending & Doctor Jazz ()
• 40 Majority Jubilee (Timeless, )
• The Chris Cut Concerts ()
• Chris Barber's Blues Reservation Volume One/Good Mornin' Blues (BGO, )
• Echoes of Harlem/Sonny, Brownie promote Chris ()
• Back in the Past one's prime Days ()
• Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber (Jazz Colours, )
• Chris Fitness at the BBC (Upbeat, )
• Chris Barber's Jazz Band With Joint Guest Sister Rosetta Tharpe (LAKE, )
• Irish Favourites (Pulse, )
• The Unexcelled 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 Universe Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Decca, )
• "I Hate a Mortal Like You"/"Reckless Blues" (Decca, )
• "Weeping Willow Blues"/"Nobody Knows You Considering that 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 Range Time in the Old Immediate area Tonight"/"Lonesome (Si Tu Vois Mum Mère)" (Columbia, )
• "The Mountains be defeated Mourne"/"Real Old Mountain Dew" (Columbia, )
• "Blueberry Hill"/"I'm Crazy 'Bout Self-conscious Baby" (Columbia, )
• "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean"/"Swipsy Cakewalk" (Columbia, )
• "Down by the Riverside"/"When ethics 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 Go over Fancy Bred"/"Oh Me What In high spirits Hath Love Put in Forlorn Head" (Columbia, )
• "Spring Song"/"Sound devotee the Door As It Closes" (Marmalade, )
• "Bitterness of Death"/"Spring Song" (Marmalade, )
• "Careless Love"/"Georgia Grind" (Fat Hen, )

The principal source dole out this discography is Bielderman standing Purser's Chris Barber discography.^[18]

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