Chris Barber
About Chris Barber
Donald Christopher Barber (17 April 1930 – 2 March 2021) 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.
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Discography
Best of Chris Barber & his Jazzband
The Chriss Barber Collection
Hushabye
The Best of Chris Barber (1968)
Chris Barber & Lonnie Donegan (1973)
Louis Jordan & Chris Barber (1977)
Come Friday (1980)
Take Me Back to New Orleans (1981)
Who's Blues (1984)
Music From the Land of Dreams (1986)
The Essential Chris Barber (1990)
The Outstanding Album (1993)
Benkó Dixieland Band & The Star Guast Chris Barber (1995)
Barber, Ball and Bilk. Jazz Jamboree (1995)
Petite Fleur (1995)
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