Chris Barber
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Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber (born April 17, 1930 at Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England) is best known as a trombonist playing in his Trad revivals with his Dixieland jazz band.
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- "What's less known, however, is that just over a week later, on July 13, 1954, Chris Barber's Jazz Band assembled in Studio Two, Broadhurst Gardens, to make their first album. Barber, a 24-year-old trombone player, had formed his first band in 1949. Five years later he was a leading light in the trad-jazz scene, which flourished in postwar Britain, catering to a small audience of young people interested in the music that came out of New Orleans in the early years of the century. His band comprised Pat Halcox on cornet, Monty Sunshine on clarinet, Ron Bowden on drums, Jim Bray on double bass and Lonnie Donegan on banjo.
- "They were brought together by Hugh Mendl, a young record producer eager to capture the buzz of the trad scene. At the time, Mendl says now, strict limitations were imposed on pop music. "Every song came out of Tin Pan Alley and followed the same formula." http://www.billybragg.co.uk/words/words1.php?word_id=2
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