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Author Topic: R. I. P. Chris Barber  (Read 1086 times)
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« 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
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« Reply #1 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
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« Reply #2 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

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« Reply #3 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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