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Chris Barber obituary John Fordham © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Getty Images The bandleader and trombonist Chris Barber, who has died aged 90, was one of the most accessible and charismatic figures to emerge from the New Orleans-inspired jazz revivalist movement that played such a significant part in shaping British popular music between the late 1940s and mid-60s. As a bandleader he began by taking the cornettist Ken Colyer’s rugged, fundamentalist proto-jazz revivalism of the early 50s and refashioning it into a more elegant, more ebullient and more accessible form for a younger audience. He was also one of the first British bandleaders to feature the infectiously rudimentary tea-chest bass-and-washboard music of skiffle within his own far from rudimentary outfits, putting a match to a craze that helped launch the careers of many UK bands, including the Beatles. Lonnie Donegan performed the skiffle anthem Rock Island Line with Barber, and in 195

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