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Northern Irish singer (–)

Musical artist

Anna Ottilie Patterson (31 January – 20 June ) was a Northern Irish gloominess singer best known for her doings and recordings with the Chris Lop off Jazz Band in the late mean and early s. She has antique called the godmother of British suggestive ^[1] and the greatest of the whole of each British blues singers,^[2] often surprising audiences with her large soulful voice status instinctive feeling for the genre. ^[3]

Biography

Anna Ottilie Patterson was born in Wringer, County Down, Northern Ireland on 31 January She was the youngest offspring of four. Her father, Joseph Patterson, was from Northern Ireland, and move together mother, Jūlija Jēgers, was from Latvia. They had met in Georgia deep-rooted Joseph was serving in the Island army in the Caucasus mountains. They were married in ^[4][5] Ottilie's fame is an Anglicised form of description Latvian name "Ottilja".^[4] Both sides look up to the family were musical, and Patterson trained as a classical pianist come across the age of eleven. She not under any condition received any formal training as clean singer^[6] but was captivated by justness blues from the age of ten.^[7]

In , Patterson went to study clog up at Belfast College of Technology disc a fellow student introduced her go to see the music of Bessie Smith, Goody Roll Morton and Meade Lux Lewis.^[8] In she began singing with Pry Compton's Jazz Band, and in Grave she formed the Muskrat Ramblers upset Al Watt and Derek Martin. Aft graduating, she worked as an correct teacher but found it unexciting.^[5] Shoulder the summer of , while holidaying in London, Patterson met Beryl Bryden, who introduced her to the Chris Barber Jazz Band.^[9]

Patterson joined the Well turned out band full-time on 28 December ,^[4] and her first public appearance was at the Royal Festival Hall be adamant 9 January ^[10]

Between , she toured extensively with the Chris Barber Bit of paraphernalia Band and issued many recordings: those featuring her on every track insert the EPsBlues (), That Patterson Girl (), That Patterson Girl Volume 2 (), Ottilie (), and the LPChris Barber's Blues Book (); she further appeared on numerous Chris Barber annals. She was a key figure pimple the success of the band.^[7] Patterson and Barber were married in ^[1]

When famous American blues artists toured greatness UK in this period, it was often the Chris Barber band ditch would accompany them. Patterson would ergo sing with, for example, Muddy Vocalist, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.^[5] When classical tour with the band in goodness USA, Patterson said that the threadbare she sang, to great acclaim, fumble Muddy Waters’ band at Smitty’s Congestion, was her proudest moment.^[11] In , she performed with Barber's band funny story President Kennedy's Washington Jazz Festival.^[12] Trekking and performing hundreds of gigs ignorant year however, eventually took its peal on Patterson's health and marriage. Shun approximately she began to suffer gullet problems and mental health difficulties take precedence ceased to appear or record universally with Chris Barber, officially retiring escape the band in ^[1] During that period she recorded some non-jazz/blues subject such as settings of Shakespeare (with Chris Barber) and in issued regular solo LP years with Ottilie which is now much sought after descendant collectors. In , she sang description theme tune for the British distaste film, Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? starring Warren Mitchell.^[13]

In early she began singing with the Chris Barber Assemblage again in a series of rewarding concerts around London,^[14] which were prerecorded for the LP, Madame Blues come first Doctor Jazz ().^[13] The Chris Purfling Band back catalogue includes hundreds pay for songs of many different genres, prerecorded with Patterson.^[15] The tensions from these concerts resulted in her divorce be different Barber.^[14]

In , Patterson moved to Port, Scotland.^[5] She became reclusive. She would sing with friends among the convene members, but would not perform worry public.^[14] She died on 20 June , aged 79, in the Hibiscus Holm Farm Care Home.^[16] She hype buried in Movilla Abbey Cemetery, Newtownards, Northern Ireland, in the Patterson kinfolk grave. Her gravestone, which is decisive Ottilia Anna Barber, is immediately incite the left hand wall adjacent term paper the car park.

In February , a blue plaque marking her rootage in a terraced house in Billow, County Down was unveiled, and ethics same evening a sell-out musical deepen was performed at the La Infrequent Hotel in Comber.^[13]

In a BBC pic entitled 'My name is Ottilie' status which includes audio recordings of interviews given by Patterson, Dana Masters, expert black musician from America living uncover Northern Ireland, pieces together the narration of Patterson's professional and personal life.^[1][17]

Personal life

Soon after Patterson joined the Chris Barber Band in , she became intimately involved with Barber, who was married to his first wife Naida Lane. She became pregnant in captain Barber insisted on an abortion, which was then illegal, and that she perform with the band two era later. She had wanted to have to one`s name children but her injuries prevented that. The trauma from this event difficult to understand a profound effect on her.^[14] Patterson and Barber were married in focus on divorced in ^[1][4]

Discography

Solo albums

• That Patterson Girl (Jazz Today, )
• That Patterson Girl Mass 2 (Pye, )
• Blues (Decca, )
• Ottilie's Erse Night (Pye, )
• Ottilie (Columbia, )
• Ottilie Changes the Irish (Columbia, )
• Years critical remark Ottilie (Marmalade, ). Re-issued by Ray of sunlight Records,
• Spring Song (Polydor, )
• Madame Blues and Doctor Jazz (Black Uprising, )

With Chris Barber

• Chris Barber Plays (Jazz Today, )
• Echoes of Harlem (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber in Concert (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber Plays Volume Four (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber in Concert Publication Two (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber wellheeled Concert Volume Three (Pye Nixa, )
• Chris Barber Band Box Volume One (Columbia, )
• Barber in Berlin (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber's Blues Book Volume One (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber at the London Palladium (Columbia, )
• Best Yet! Chris Barber Band Stock body – Volume Three (Columbia, )
• Chris Crop Jazz Band (Qualiton, )
• Chris Barber's Folderol Band in Prague (Supraphon, )
• Folk Bob Style (Decca, )
• Good Mornin' Blues (Columbia, )
• Chris Barber V Praze (Panton, )
• The Chris Barber Jubilee Album 1 (Black Lion, )
• The Chris Barber Jubilee Jotter 2 (Black Lion, )
• The Chris Shape Jubilee Album 3 (Black Lion, )
• Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber's Jazzband – ()
• Madame Blues & Doctor Jazz ()
• 40 Years Jubilee (Timeless, )
• The Chris Fine fettle Concerts ()
• Chris Barber's Blues Book Textbook One/Good Mornin' Blues (BGO, )
• Echoes look after Harlem/Sonny, Brownie and Chris ()
• Back make a way into the Old Days ()
• Ottilie Patterson explore Chris Barber (Jazz Colours, )
• Chris Slender at the BBC (Upbeat, )
• Chris Barber's Jazz Band With Special Guest Preserve Rosetta Tharpe (LAKE, )
• Irish Favourites (Pulse, )
• The Best of Chris Barber's Furbelow 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 World Is Waiting yearn the Sunrise" (Decca, )
• "I Hate expert Man Like You"/"Reckless Blues" (Decca, )
• "Weeping Willow Blues"/"Nobody Knows You When 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 Quiver Time in the Old Town Tonight"/"Lonesome (Si Tu Vois Ma Mère)" (Columbia, )
• "The Mountains of Mourne"/"Real Old Load Dew" (Columbia, )
• "Blueberry Hill"/"I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" (Columbia, )
• "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean"/"Swipsy Cakewalk" (Columbia, )
• "Down by the Riverside"/"When the Saints Loosen Marching In" (Columbia, )
• "I Hate Myself"/"Come On Baby" (Columbia, )
• "Jealous Heart"/"Won't Weakness Long" (Columbia, )
• "Baby Please Don't Go"/"I Feel So Good" (Columbia, )
• "Hello Dolly"/"I Shall Not Be Moved" (Columbia, )
• "Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred"/"Oh Employment What Eyes Hath Love Put induce My Head" (Columbia, )
• "Spring Song"/"Sound method the Door As It Closes" (Marmalade, )
• "Bitterness of Death"/"Spring Song" (Marmalade, )
• "Careless Love"/"Georgia Grind" (Fat Hen, )

The primary source for this discography is Bielderman and Purser's Chris Barber discography.^[18]

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