Chris Barber

About

Donald Christopher Barber was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. He helped many musicians with their careers and had a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with “Petite Fleur” in 1959. These musicians included the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, “Rock Island Line”, while with Barber’s band. He provided an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner, and sponsored African-American blues musicians to visit Britain, making Barber a significant figure in launching the British rhythm and blues and “beat boom” of the 1960s.

Albums/Songs:

• Best of Chris Barber & his Jazzband
• Jubilee Stomp
• Jazzy City – Club Session By Chris Barber
• The Best of Chris Barber
• Benkó Dixieland Band & The Star Guast Chris Barber
• The Chriss Barber Collection
• Music From the Land of Dreams
• Chris Barber & Lonnie Donegan
• Who’s Blues
• The Best of Chris Barber
• Ottilie Patterson & Chris Barber
• Take Me Back to New Orleans
• 60 Timeless Classics from the Giants of Traditional Jazz
• Barber, Ball and Bilk. Jazz Jamboree
• Come Friday
• The Essential Chris Barber
• The Outstanding Album
• Chris Barber’s Jazzband: Hits From the Golden Era of Traditional Jazz
• Hushabye
• Louis Jordan & Chris Barber
• Petite Fleur
• The Absolutely Essential 3CD Collection
• Memories of my trip
• Great Moments with
• 40 Years Jubilee

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