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Dendy Theatre, 26 Church Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria Australia - 1963

Original leaflet from 1963, featuring a mixture of live entertainment & film – LOOK BACK IN ANGER together with Chris Barbar’s Jazz Band with Pat Halcox.

Details – Donald Christopher Barber OBE (Chris Barbar) born 17 April 1930 is an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit, he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, “Rock Island Line”, while with Chris Barber’s band. His providing an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and “beat boom” of the 1960s.

Patrick John Halcox (18 March 1930 – 4 February 2013), was an English jazz trumpeter – The career of the jazz trumpeter Pat Halcox, who has died aged 82, was defined by the exceptional length of his musical partnership with the trombonist Chris Barber. Halcox explained the longevity of this relationship in a 2008 interview: “Chris always cared so much about what he was doing, and that’s why I stayed with him. I’ve seen the world, made good friends with wonderful musicians, played for huge crowds in fabulous places. I have to thank Chris for all that.” – Contributed by Greg Lynch –