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.

KNOWN FOR

Ready, Steady, Cook
2009
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
The Ed Sullivan Show
1959
Look Back in Anger
1959
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
2016
Red, White and Blues
2003
Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues
2007
European Grand Prix 1964
1965
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers And Friends: 70th Birthday Concert
2003
Momma Don't Allow
1956
Übermut im Salzkammergut
1963
Rock Island Line: The Song That Made Britain Rock
2019

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
11
Sound
2
2019
Rock Island Line: The Song That Made Britain Rock
as Himself
2016
Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
as Self
2009
Ready, Steady, Cook
as Self - Guest
2007
Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues
as Self - Band Leader
2003
Red, White and Blues
as Self
2003
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers And Friends: 70th Birthday Concert
as Self
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1965
European Grand Prix 1964
as Self
1963
Übermut im Salzkammergut
as Self - Chris Barber's Jazzband (uncredited)
1959
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1956
Momma Don't Allow
as Self - trombone