As a “companion” to the main page about the Big Chris Barber Band and its current members, here is an additional page that charts the eight-year history (so far!) of the expanded line-up. As the photographs below illustrate, the Big Chris Barber Band stemmed from Chris’s decision to continue indefinitely what was originally (in 2000) a temporary three-man expansion of the front line of the existing eight-piece Chris Barber’s Jazz & Blues Band. The new configuration became permanent in 2001, and the band has since then remained at a complement of eleven musicians (three reeds, two trumpets, two trombones, and the four-man rhythm section of bass, drums, banjo/guitar, and electric guitar. Not surprisingly, there have been a few personnel changes since the band expanded (John Crocker, for example, left in 2003 after a 35-year tenure, while Vic Pitt came to the end of his 39 years as the band’s bassist early in 2007). Trombonist and arranger Bob Hunt, too, left in early 2008. The most important personnel change was the retirement of Chris Barber’s Jazz Band founder member Pat Halcox in July 2008 after fifty-four years with the band. However, the band continues with renewed vigour, with replacement trumpeter Peter Rudeforth, and Zoltan Sagi on reeds replacing Tony Carter, who left on the same day as Pat. Each new member has made his own special contribution to the continuing excellence of the band. Sometimes this has involved charting new territory (Tony Carter’s -- and now Zoltan Sagi's -- interpretation of Miles Davis’s All Blues, for example, as well as Bob Hunt’s arrangements of such Duke Ellington classics as Misty Morning, Jubilee Stomp, and Hot And Bothered). At the same time, the band’s history and tradition still take centre stage on CDs and at concerts. We hope you will find this overview of the Big Chris Barber Band enjoyable and informative: it includes photographs of each successive line-up plus pictures of each individual member, past and present; links to four compact discs and a DVD; and more than thirty music clips.