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Date: Friday 17th June 2016
Time: 20:00:00
Venue: St Georges Church, High Street, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AX
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Event Artists
Chris Barber
British Jazz trombonist and bandleader
British jazz trombonist Chris Barber celebrates his 67th year as a bandleader in 2016. Inspired by the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band, Chris formed his first Barber New Orleans Band in 1949 at the age of nineteen. In 1953, along with Monty Sunshine and Lonnie Donegan, he joined forces with Ken Colyer. Then, with the replacement of Colyer by Pat Halcox, Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen became Chris Barber’s Jazz Band in 1954 and has been one of Europe’s most successful traditional jazz bands ever since.
Over the years, Chris Barber’s Jazz Band evolved into the Chris Barber Jazz and Blues Band, a richly-textured eight-piece group, blending brass, reeds, and electric guitar into a unique and unmistakable mix of blues and jazz. And despite being ‘on the slide’ since 1949, having performed over 10,000 concerts and made thousands of recordings, the Chris Barber Band keeps marching on, right into the 21st century.
The Big Chris Barber Band
At the end of 2001 by Chris extended his band by adding three more musicians and renamed it The BIG Chris Barber Band.