| Variations of Name | Donald Christopher Barber |
| Biography | Chris Barber OBE was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist.
He helped many musicians with their careers and had a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with "Petite Fleur" in 1959. These included the blues singer Ottilie Patterson and Lonnie Donegan. He provided an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner, and sponsored African-American blues musicians to visit Britain, making Barber a significant figure in launching the British rhythm and blues and "beat boom" of the 1960s. |