Chris Barber
Chris Barber Background information Born (1930-04-17) 17 April 1930 (age 84) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Genres Skiffle, ragtime, swing, blues, trad jazz, folk Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, bandleader Instruments Trombone Labels Decca, Tempo, Columbia (EMI), Pye, Lake Associated acts Lonnie Donegan, Ken Colyer Website chrisbarber.net Chris Barber Band (The Netherlands, Febr. 1957) Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber (born 17 April 1930) is a British jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit, he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and vocalist/banjoist 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 Chris Barber's band. His providing an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and "beat boom" of the 1960s.