Graham Large

Hello Chris
Many congratulations on your 80th birthday. I've been a fan of your music since the mid 1950s when I first heard the recording of the great Festival Hall concert with Monty, Lonnie, Ottilie, Pat, Ron Bowden etc doing among others Ice Cream and have been following you around ever since. No other band has that inimitable bounce that you have whenever you play and I look forward to many more years of sheer enjoyment. Best wishes.

dennis Honley

A very Happy 80th Birthday Chris.
I have been a fan since day one ( giving my age away ), We do not see enough of you in Kent, especially now the Marlow is being rebuilt. Hope you will be invited to the grand reopening.
Hope you had a lovely day.
You are my No 1 in the Trad World.
Best Wishes
Dennis

douglas gerrard

dear chris,
very many happy returns on your "young" 80th!
live in kaarst, germany, for over 40 years and always come to hear you - longstanding fan from my schooldays - still have my first ep with
"misty morning"!!
all the very best and thanks for so many years of great pleasure you and your band have given me and thousands of others.
hope to see/hear you before too long.

douglas

Henning Reinke

Lieber Chris,
alles, alles Gute zu Deinem 80. Geburtstag wünscht Dir Henning aus Brinkum bei Bremen. Ich habe mich seit über vierzig Jahren über Deine Musik bei vielen Konzerten gefreut. Feier schön und bis bald in Bremen!!!

Klaus Müller

Etwas verspätet - aber um so herzlichere
Glückwünsche zum Geburtstag.
Alles Gute und hoffentlich wieder im Sommer
auf SYLT.

Dein alter Fan von der INSEL SYLT

Klaus

Renny

Happy Birthday Chris
When will we have you here again in Edinburgh - or anywhere this year even?
I'd really love to get to one of your gigs again some time soon.
I still remember the feeling from your gigs in the seventies - play it again - -.
From a youthful 47 year old (currently lapsed trombonist).
salutations and very best wishes
R

mark mc alister

Web: http://halle.co.uk

Hi Chris.
happy birthday ,all the best ,on reaching 80 !,from a whole host of fans in Manchester I am the second generation in my family to follow you and the band from my teens (53) now .thanks so much for the music and pleasure you have given me from the free trade hall days ,to the bridgewater hall , i am based at the bridge water with the Halle orchestra love to get a concert together if poss (as you mentioned in the times) keep on blowing Chris ! mark mc alister

Uwe Giesecke

Dear Chris,
another bunch of flowers from cuxhaven. I love the great music you have been playing for decades. Best wishes for the future and many more concerts in Germany.
Regards
Uwe

colin & les

Chris wshing you all the best see u soon

Wolfgang Schenk

Hello dear Chris,
I will send you the best wishes. For the future go on with your great music and your great band. I hope always have the best healthy and your great joy to keep this kind of jazz with his many colours. We meet 9th November last year at your concert in Karlsruhe. Before the concert we had a niceconversation and I´m very glad that you signatured my trombone.
Sincerly Wolfgang

(P.S. I´m loooking forward to your next concert in the area oft Stuttgart)

Matthias Hündgen

Hi Chris,

herzlichen Glückwunsch zur Vollendung von 80 Lebensjahren.
Hoffentlich können Sie den Tag in bester Gesundheit verbringen. Dies wünsche ich Ihnen auf für die kommenden, hoffentlich noch zahlreichen Jahre.

Matthias Hündgen

P.S. Lassen Sie sich doch noch einmal in Aachen oder Umgebung sehen/hören.

Peter Kazubski

Lieber Mr. Barber,
ich war gerade 17 Jahre alt, als ich am 23.Mai 1959 in der berliner Deutschlandhalle mein erstes Jazzkonzert mit Ihrer Band erleben durfte. Ein Erlebnis, das mich bis in die heutigen Tage mit viel Freude und Begeisterung begleitet hat.
Dafür möchte ich mich bei Ihnen auf diesem Wege ganz herzlich bedanken und wünsche Ihnen bei guter Gesundheit noch viel Freude und ein nicht ausgehendes Bluesfeeling.
Ihr
Peter Kazubski

Lemi Gsteiger

Web: http://www.lemis.ch

Dear Chris
I wish you all the best and have a great birthday. I wish you a lot of health, that you can still play for many jears with your Band. Thanks for your wonderful music!

Alastair Banks

Happy birthday Chris, and many happy returns. Thanks for decades of peerless music, and enriching the lives of so many people - and this one in particular !

Andreas Lerbs

Dear Chris,

from three generations of Chris Barber fans in our family Happy Birthday to you and thousand thanks for your wonderful music.

With our very best wishes and greetings from Freiburg/Germany

Andreas Lerbs and family

David Wheatley

Congratulations for enjoying continued success with the bands. Favourite sessions were at Royal Forest Chingford in the mid sixties with Kenny Washington and Sevenoaks 4 years ago when you provided great live Jazz & Blues to several teenagers in our party!


Our very best wishes for a great celebration.

David Wheatley

jockel meise

Web: http://Meise-Reisen.de

Dear Chris! Happy Birthday and all the best to you ,health ,happyness,love and a lot of good music for the next 20 jears. jockel and all fans from Berlin.

Maddy Curtis

Dear Chris,
Wishing you a wonderful 80th birthday!
Listening to brian mathews on the radio this morning and a tribute to your birthday was played. Good to hear jazz on radio 2! I know if my dear dad, Julian purser, was still with us we would be playing jazz ALL day!
Hope you have a wonderful day. Many happy returns!
Best wishes
Maddy Curtis

John Fitch

Hi Chris,

have a great birthday - and many more
I was at your 1955 Festival Hall concert,
and have been collecting your records ever since.

Thank you for your music; it would be great to
bump into you again at Stansted!!

My wife and I live in Stevenage - we came to
your concert with Pat - she works in WGC -
please don't forget us on your next tour.

Thank you for your music, and your staying power

Have a great day love to you all
john&maria
STNreps

Werner

Dear Chris
all the very best to your special birthday!
And once more I'd like to say thank your for the good music over all the decades...you're still going strong!!
Werner, Winterthur (the one left...)

Lutz Eikelmann

Web: http://www.lutz-eik...

Dear Chris,

I can not congratulate too much to your birthday and I just want to send you my very best wishes and very best regards!

I want to thank you for being a big inspiration all over the years although I have almost never copied your music, except our recording of ITS TIGHT LIKE THAT of February 2000 which came close to your versions, but I guess that is the song!

All the best, God bless you! Have a great birthday!

Lutz

Finn Blytmann

Dear Chris, Greetings from Copenhagen. Your jazzclub appearances and recordings made in Denmark in 1953 and 1954 with Ken Colyer and your own jazzband were crucial to the development of Danish revival jazz. (Your 1952 recordings with the local Gentofte heroes 'The Ramblers' have almost achieved cult status!). Your music influenced a whole generation of Danish jazz musicians and jazz lovers and your dedication to the music is still a great inspiration to us all. I have attended regularly your concerts ever since I was young, and I recall the joy of going to your Wednesday night appearances with Ottilie Patterson at the Marquee Club in Soho in the spring of 1966. Thank you Chris, Congratulations - please Play On!

George Vincent

Both my wife and I are looking forward to seeing you in Wimborne this evening. My Sister in law has even come over from Sweden to attend this concert. Thanks to you and the band for many happy hours of listening, and our Best Wishes to you for your 80th on Saturday.
George and Gunilla Vincent.

Werner Naasner

Dear Mr. Barber, thank you for the music - my wife and me listened to your wonderful concerts so many times. Happy birthday to you and best wishes for the future.
Werner Naasner (from Germany)

Derek Paramor

This is my third attempt ot wish you a happy birthday, so take it for your 85 th and 90th too! Norrie

Baz Durrant

Dear Chris
Hooked since first seeing you & the band back in 1969, So a giant birthday wish to you & an equally giant thankyou for all the marvelous music that you have given us.
From Baz Durrant

Hartmut Görgens

Dear Mr. Barber,
with the best wishes for your 80th birthday.
Since 1954 you embellish my life with your wonderful music. Thousand thanks.
Hartmut Görgens

From Germany

colin ramsbottom

Have been a fan since the fifties some great concerts in Manchester. fav recording Barber in copenhagen and Margie.

John Childs

Congratulations and thanks for many happy memories dating from a NJF concert at the Festival Hall in Oct/Nov 1954. Some Radio performances, one with Van Morrison which set me Car Radio 'Alight' as I was driving through Willesden one day, were truly fun to listen to. Its a while since we met at the Concorde Club in Eastleigh where another most enjoyable was spent with you,and enthusiastic audiance and the Band. That evening,as with all the others went oh too quickly.

Conratulations again and long may you continue playing. I add my grateful thanks for the marvellous inventive happy music over the Years.

Peter Cobb

Hello Chris
Congratulations on your forthcoming 80th birthday. Audrey and myself will be at Buxton tonight and hope to have a chat with you, we are looking forward to the show and hopefully many more.
All the best from a long standing fan 1959 onwards.
Peter

Keith Payne

Hi Chris,

Best wishes for your 80th birthday. I have my tickets for Pendley on April 16th and can't wait. Saw the band regularly over the years first time I can pinpoint was my 21st birthday Jan 19th 1964 at the White Lion Edgeware. The Salisbury in Barnet and Red lion Hatfield were regular trips to see you. The 100 Club of course was a frequently visited including 2 guest spots by you with the John Slaughter band.
Great that the band keeps rollin'

Keith Payne

Lutz Eikelmann

Web: http://www.lutz-eik...

Dear Chris,

it is "too early" to send congratulations to your 80th birthday ---- I will do that next month ---- but I just want to thank you for your music today.

I also want to let you know, too, that I have written an article for the Swinging Hamburg Journal regarding your 80th birthday and when it will be published in 2010, I will send you a copy for your knowledge.

Best wishes and best regards from Germany,
Lutz Eikelmann

Jason Spencer

Dear Chris ,
I listened to your band throughout the 50ies and early 60ies and would like to thank you for all that wonderful music and send congratulations on your 80th

Peter

Hi Chris,
Congratulations !
I heard you and your band around 1958 at the Ernst-Merck-Halle in Hamburg and I am a fan since then.

Peter Austin

. . . don't know about the fastest Bourbon Street Parade . . . what I do think is that Climax Rag was a fabulous opener to that Berlin LP all those years ago. Great music Mr Donald Christopher Barber and a very happy 80th. Keep on stompin'.

Peter

Brian Rendle

A very happy 80th Chris. Here's hoping that you and that great band of yours continue playing and touring for many more years to come. We love to hear you play on our collection of your CDs and, even more, love to see the band live whenever you bring the band to the north of England. Have a wonderful birthday and many more to come.
Brian and Margaret Rendle

trevor bradley

Hi Chris,
I always used to go and see you every year at Hemel Hempstead when I lived there many years ago.
I still like to listen to your music whenever I am relaxing at home.
Hope you are keeping well.
Trevor

Widmer Kurt

Lieber Mr. Barber
Als grosser Fan Ihrer Musik seit 1959 mit über 50 Konzertbesuchen gratuliere ich Ihnen zu Ihrem Lebenswerk und zum Geburtstag. Dürfen wir uns auf eine Jubiläumstour freuen mit möglichst vielen alten Dixieland- und New-Orleans-Nummern.
Happy birthday and all the best from Switzerland
Dora und Kurt Widmer

Dirk

Happy B-Day from Hamburg, Germany.

chris kennedy

Happy birthday, mr. B.!
I so much enjoyed your last two concerts in Holland - as I did when I first saw you in Bradford in 1959!
As I've already told you, I owe my life-long love of jazz to you.
Hope you enjoyed my daft skiffle song!
Long life to you and your music!
Chris Kennedy