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Title: R. I. P. Chris Barber Post by: Rocker on March 03, 2021, 08:14:12 AM The great Chris Baber has died.
Chris Barber, British trad jazz bandleader, dies aged 90 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/02/chris-barber-british-trad-jazz-bandleader-dies-aged-90 Title: Re: R. I. P. Chris Barber Post by: JK on March 03, 2021, 10:23:34 AM One of the few greats, maybe the greatest, to come out of the UK Trad Jazz scene. His magnum opus was this classic, "Petite Fleur", which I believe was also a massive hit in the US:
Rest in peace, sir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvMH_XCEaE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_Fleur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_Fleur) Title: Re: R. I. P. Chris Barber Post by: JK on March 18, 2021, 03:39:26 AM Barber was at the birth of the highly influential UK "skiffle" movement in the mid 1950s. (Skiffle was like punk rock in the 1970s -- it was open to all comers.) Here he is on upright bass (rather than the tea-chest bass most skiffle bands favoured) with Beryl Bryden on washboard backing guitarist Lonnie Donegan on the movement's breakthrough hit, "Rock Island Line":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xMq0as0u0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Donegan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Donegan) Title: Re: R. I. P. Chris Barber Post by: Rocker on March 18, 2021, 07:59:36 AM Lonnie Donegan - the best thing ever to come out of Great Britian, musically.
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