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Music aficionado and band leader Colin Aitchison presents the musicians who were the huge, million-selling recording stars of an often forgotten era.
Before Bruno Mars, there was Bing Crosby, before the likes of Adele, there was Billie Holiday . and before Justin Bieber . well, where to start!?!
There’s some terrific music and stories from the ‘20s, ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s, plus a few laughs!
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Music aficionado and band leader Colin Aitchison presents the musicians who were the huge, million-selling recording stars of an often forgotten era.
Before Bruno Mars, there was Bing Crosby, before the likes of Adele, there was Billie Holiday . and before Justin Bieber . well, where to start!?!
There’s some terrific music and stories from the ‘20s, ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s, plus a few laughs!
(Every Sunday, 8.30am-9am   ) ....

Duke Ellington , Ivie Anderson , Mercer Ellington , Al Hibbler , Cotton Club , Big Chris Barber Band , Duke Ellington Orchestra , Syd Lawrence Orchestra , Bob Hunt , Chart Topping ,

Chris Barber obituary


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 ....

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