Chris Barber on the Web:

• Official Chris Barber website at Timeless Records

• Lake Records -- reissues of many Chris Barber recordings and other British traditional jazz

• Upbeat Jazz -- more reissues

• Toni Ginsel's Chris Barber website -- dozens of record covers, and updated in November 2003 with concert photographs (go to beam.to/tonis-barber-gallery)

• Another Timeless Records Barber page

• Fiftieth Anniversary Tour schedule

• Pete York's Chris Barber photo gallery

• Waendi's Special Site - Informationen für Jazzfans: this site contains four sets of excellent -- and rare -- photographs, including some from 1969 and 1976 that Andreas Wandfluh, the site's designer, has recently discovered. Don't miss this excellent collection of archival material!

• Chris Barber Jazz and Blues Band

• Club photo of the late 1950s Chris Barber Band, with Ottilie Patterson

• Geoff Boxell's CD reviews

• A collection of excellent recent photos of The Big Chris Barber Band

• More photos of The Big Chris Barber Band

• Even more Big Chris Barber Band photos

• Photo of Monty Sunshine and Chris Barber, 1999

• Older photo of Monty Sunshine

• Transcript of a brief interview with Chris Barber on BBC

• Ray Green's website in New Zealand, with a web page about the band, and another of CD thumbnails

• The "Barber" era of the "Ken Colyer story" (website of the Ken Colyer Trust)

• The Unofficial Ken Colyer Homepage

• "Chris Barber Concerts" is a short web page describing one fan's memories of the Barber band in the late 1950s

• The most complete list on the web of Barber CDs for sale

• theiceberg.com includes quite a good Barber biography

• Some great photos by jazz photographer Tim Dickeson of Chris with Dennis Rollins at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, May 4, 2003

• More photos by Tim Dickeson from the May 2003 Cheltenham Jazz Festival: close-ups of Chris Barber, Pat Halcox, and John Defferary

• Northern Lights Music: website for a booking agency, with a short description of the Barber band and a couple of photos

• Concert Review: Chris was a guest at a 70th birthday concert in Liverpool for John Mayall on July 19, 2003. Other guests included Mick Taylor and Eric Clapton. The concert was filmed for DVD release later in the year. The John Mayall website has lots of fans' concert reviews and some great photos.

• Blues News, website of the Hamilton Blues Society of New Zealand, includes an archive of articles about the blues. A .pdf reproduction of a 1958 Jazz Journal article about Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee is particularly interesting for its comments on the Barber Band; another article, about Sonny Boy Williamson, also appears on the site. (Thanks to Niklaus Zust for letting me know about these links.)

Other Traditional Jazz Links:

• Fred Burnett's Traditional Jazz Pages: a tribute to the musicians who have dedicated themselves to playing the music of New Orleans and Dixieland in the North West of England. This is a great web resource for the latest news and links to many British traditional jazz bands.

• The Official Climax Jazz Band Site: a terrific Toronto-based band composed mainly of British and European musicians. The band has been playing for more than 32 years; its early sound was very reminiscent of Chris Barber's Jazz Band of the mid-1950s, and fortunately some of the band's first recordings have recently been re-issued on CD. I haven't seen the band in many years, living "out west" and two thousand miles from Toronto, but if they are still as good as they used to be then this is a band not to miss.