Chris Barber Has Blown His Last Note

[Smokin Joe]

Jazz trumpeter and band leader Chris Barber has died. Not a jazz fan myself, but he was known in cycling circle as the sponsor of the Chris barber/Sun/Huret professional cycling team in the sixties, one of the teams in the then thriving domestic pro scene.

Chris Barber, British trad jazz bandleader, dies aged 90 | Jazz | The Guardian

 

[raleighnut]

Sad news, Lonnie Donnegan got his start singing in his band.

 

[Rocky]

RIP

I loved his work - raucous New Orleans jazz!!

 

[Dave7]

I do not like what I call full on jazz but I did enjoy his stuff.
@raleighnut I didn't realise that.
I have one complaint!!! Too many people around my age group are popping their clogs

 

[Moodyman]

I do not like what I call full on jazz but I did enjoy his stuff.
@raleighnut I didn't realise that.
I have one complaint!!! Too many people around my age group are popping their clogs

A bloke I sometimes ride with, in his 60s, said "nowadays I attend more funerals than weddings". It's a sombre thought.

 

[pawl]

Saw him a couple of times at the theatre in Buxton

 

[Sharky]

There's a local rider down here who was one of the pro team. Still riding our evening 10's AND still too fast for me.

 

[Paulus]

Sad, another one gone. I liked his style of music and saw him a couple of years back at the St. Albans arena. It was a great night.

 

[Fab Foodie]

My father was a fan and took me to see Chris Barber when I was a child, my first gig! I've been interested in Jazz ever since. His band over the year featured some great musicians, Monty Sunshine, Pat Halcox and the fabulous voice of Otilie Patterson.
He's quite an unsung hero of modern music. By bringing over some of the big names of early blues to the UK, he inspired the likes of the Rolling Stones, Cream and many others of the British Blues movement who then re-exported black American music to an unknowing white American audience growing the stature of the early Bluesmen in their own country.
A name that should be writ larger in the history of modern music.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BABKav1IbNc

 

[raleighnut]

I do not like what I call full on jazz but I did enjoy his stuff.
@raleighnut I didn't realise that.
I have one complaint!!! Too many people around my age group are popping their clogs

View: https://youtu.be/utDxMtKXs3A

towards the end of this clip

View: https://youtu.be/_QtZmbiF-jk

 

[Johnsop99]

Being a brass player myself Chris Barber was actually a trombonist not a trumpeter! I have a great CD of him performing with Kenny Ball (trumpet) and Acker Bilk (clarinet).