| Recent Updates | |
| Dec 27, 2003 | Because there are now too many photographs to load quickly on one page, I have added a second photographs page, beginning with sound-check and backstage pictures from concerts in Worcester and Birmingham, December 2003. |
| Dec 27, 2003 | Three new releases have been added to the home page and the covers page, as well as to their own pages: Jubilee Stomp (CD), John Mayall's 70th Birthday Concert (CD and DVD), and Hot Jazz Festival Euro-Park (DVD). |
| Dec 18, 2003 | During the first two weeks of December, I was in England, and was fortunate enough not only to attend three concerts by the Big Chris Barber Band (Bristol, Worcester, and Birmingham), but also to go backstage, meet the band members, and take photographs at the Bristol concert. I've posted twelve of the photos, including several of the pre-concert sound-check. |
| Nov 25, 2003 | Julian Purser, Barber band archivist, is seeking help in completing the archive's collection of Fan Club booklets from the 1950s and early 1960s. Please see the note on the page for the first Fan Club booklet. |
| Nov 25, 2003 | If one of the latest Barber CDs -- One Of Your Smiles, with Chris guesting with the Vancouver band Sweet Papa Lowdown -- has caught your attention, you may want to find out more about the collaborations that produced the recordings. Go to Sweet Papa Lowdown and Chris Barber. |
| Nov 20, 2003 | Latest from the Barber-Purser archive: a couple of programmes from 1954 concerts. |
| Nov 20, 2003 | Here's a collage I made using LPs, CDs, EPs, sincles, and DVDs from my Barber collection. |
| Nov 20, 2003 | I have put a picture of the newest CD, Jubilee Stomp, on the home page for this site, but since I don't yet have a copy I have linked to the Timeless website instead of to a page for this CD. |
| Nov 13, 2003 | A true rarity from the Barber-Purser archives: the "Barber-related" parts of the programme from a 1959 New Orleans concert. |
| Nov 5, 2003 | I have added a DVD cover and a CD cover to the Record covers page. |
| Nov 5, 2003 | Helge Lorenz took four photographs from a backstage viewpoint at a November 1 concert in Bremen: they are now on the Photographs page. |
| Oct 30, 2003 | Seven photos of Ken Colyer's Jazzmen (1953-54) in action are now on the Photographs page. |
| Oct 30, 2003 | The Band Line-ups page is now as complete as I can make it. |
| Oct 27, 2003 | Another new CD arrived today: read about In Barber's Chair from Lake Records, then buy it! |
| Oct 25, 2003 | I have added a new page -- The Band -- which will take you to several pages of pictures of how the band and its personnel have changed over time, plus a timeline. |
| Oct 21, 2003 | The most significant update yet: a new Chris Barber CD -- One Of Your Smiles by Sweet Papa Lowdown and Chris Barber |
| Oct 21, 2003 | Here's a neat little news item I found while web-surfing: "Seeing Double!" |
| Oct 16, 2003 | Added a few more pictures to the "band lineups" page, as well as a thumbnail of the cover of the newest Barber CD (Chris Barber and Sweet Papa Lowdown, One Of Your Smiles) to the Record covers page. |
| Oct 8, 2003 | Added a new sub-section to the Miscellaneous page (The Chris Barber Club: Fan Club Booklets from the 1950s and 1960s) and posted the contents of "The Chris Barber Club" Volume 1, Number 1. |
| Oct 8, 2003 | Six more photographs by Helge Lorenz of Germany are on the Photographs page. |
| Oct 5, 2003 | Helge Lorenz of Germany has donated three photographs taken at the beginning of the band's late-2003 tour of Europe. You can find them on the Photographs page. |
| Sep 29, 2003 | More records on the Record Covers page: five extended-play features for Ottilie Patterson, Monty Sunhsine, Pat Halcox, Ian Wheeler, and Chris Barber. |
| Sep 20, 2003 | I have added two records to the Record Covers page: Chris Barber In Budapest and Jazz Sacred And Secular. |
| Sep 14, 2003 | There are now several more pictures on the Photographs of Chris Barber and the Band page. |
| Sep 14, 2003 | The previous five pages of Photo archives have been increased to eight, with many new photos I have found on the web, scanned from records and concert prorammes, and scanned from originals sent to me by Julian Purser. |
| Sep 14, 2003 | The Miscellaneous page has become so long and varied that I have sub-divided it into themes: Discography, Tours & concerts, Photographs, Excerpts from books & magazines, Radio, and Miscellany. |
| Sep 10, 2003 | Programme from a 1960 concert, courtesy of Jim Armstrong of British Columbia, Canada.. |
| Aug 29, 2003 | I've started a photographs page. Just a few photos so far but more to come in the future.... |
| Aug 28, 2003 | Links to articles from 1958 and 1964 about Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Sonny Boy Williamson have been placed on the "Chris Barber on the Web" page (currently the last item before "Other Traditional Jazz Links"). |
| Aug 26, 2003 | Thanks to Chris Robins, here are a leaflet and ticket from a June 11 2003 concert in Basingstoke, part of the 50th anniversary tour of the Big Chris Barber Band. |
| Aug 21, 2003 | A page to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the recording of From New Orleans to London, by Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, September 1953. |
| Aug 14, 2003 | Programme for the Tour with Louis Jordan, December 1962 . |
| Aug 8, 2003 | Programme from a 1957 concert. |
| Aug 5, 2003 | Chris Barber on Desert Island Discs, 1958. |
| Aug 3, 2003 | Commentaries on revivalist jazz, skiffle, and the trad boom excerpted from George Melly's 1970 book, Revolt Into Style. |
| July 31, 2003 | The John Mayall website has lots of fans' concert reviews and some great photos from the July 19 concert in Liverpool (see the entry below for July 22; thanks to Julian Purser for the info.). |
| July 31, 2003 | I've recently completed a new poster of Barber CD, LP, EP and singles covers. You can see it by clicking on the link on the Poster page. I've also designed a CD cover for recordings of the BBC Radio2 programmes, Spirit of New Orleans. |
| July 22, 2003 | Added a link to a concert review where Chris played with John Mayall, Eric Clapton, and Mick Taylor. |
| July 21, 2003 | Two new record covers pages have been added (The Best Of Both Worlds and Louis Jordan & Chris Barber), along with some interesting articles from a 40-year-old magazine published when most of these recordings were originally released. |
| July 20, 2003 | Don't miss this one: a new page with details about the most recent edition of Gerard Bielderman's & Julian Purser's Chris Barber Discography, A Life in Music: The Chris Barber Discography 1949-2001. |
| July 10, 2003 | Julian Purser's short article introducing Mike Magic Henry, trumpeter with the Big Chris Barber Band. |
| July 8, 2003 | New link on the Links to Chris Barber websites page: Northern Lights Music. |
| July 5, 2003 | Tour program cover and photographs, 1958. |
| July 5, 2003 | Cat Call: Excerpt from an interview published in Cadence magazine. |
| July 5, 2003 | I've added some new external links, not specifically to Barber sites but to closely-related music: Fred Burnett's Traditional Jazz Pages and the Official Climax Jazz Band website. |
| June 28, 2003 | Review by Julian Purser of a Barber concert in Basingstoke, June 11, 2003. |
| June 28, 2003 | Excerpts from reviews of Chris Barber and Ken Colyer records from Jazz On Record, 1960. |
| June 27, 2003 | Photo archives pages. Go to the first page and follow the links for the rest of the pages. |
| June 29, 2003 | Two new record/CD covers added: Chris Barber in Solothurn and Chris Barber in Weinfelden. |
| June 26, 2003 | Photo of Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. |
| June 24, 2003 | Excerpts and photographs from a 1962 book about British traditional jazz. |
| June 21, 2003 | Updated list of my Chris Barber records. |
| June 21, 2003 | Links to Chris Barber websites corrected and updated. |
| June 20, 2003 | New page for contributions by Julian Purser, discographer and archivist for the Chris Barber Jazz and Blues Band. |
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