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Chris Barber
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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 h…
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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.
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2019
Rock Island Line: The Song That Made Britain Rock
Movie Himself
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2017
North of Blue
Movie Additional Soundtrack
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2016
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
Movie Self
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2007
Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues
Movie Self - Band Leader
- 2003
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2003
Red, White and Blues
Movie Self
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1994
Ready, Steady, Cook
TV show Self - Guest
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1972
Le Grand Échiquier
TV show Self
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1965
European Grand Prix 1964
Movie Self
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1963
Übermut im Salzkammergut
Movie Self - Chris Barber's Jazzband (uncredited)
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1959
Look Back in Anger
Movie Original Music Composer
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1956
Momma Don't Allow
Movie Self - trombone
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
