Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Barber

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Chris Barber.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Chris Barber

Donald Christopher Barber OBE was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with "Petite Fleur" in 1959, he helped the careers of many musicians. These included the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and 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 Barber's band. 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.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. — © Chris Barber
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.
We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us
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