Chris Barber
- Acting
- April 17, 1930 · Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- March 2, 2021
Biography
Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber (born 17 April 1930) is a British jazz musician, best known as a bandleader andtrombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit, he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singerOttilie 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Rock Island Line: The Song That Made Britain Rock · Self
- North of Blue · Additional Soundtrack
- Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me · Self
- Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues · Self
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers And Friends: 70th Birthday Concert · Self
- Red, White and Blues · Self
- Ready, Steady, Cook · Self
- Le Grand Échiquier · Self
- European Grand Prix 1964 · Self
- Übermut im Salzkammergut · Self
- Look Back in Anger · Music
- Momma Don't Allow · Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show · Self