Record Companies
Blues Legacy is an entirely new kind of audio-visual recording company, run by a coterie of musicians and producers, who are dedicated to “Keepin’ Blues Alive”. New releases include Chris Barber Presents…The Blues Legacy: ‘Lost & Found’ CD & Download Series and the ‘As We Like It’ DVD from The Big Chris Barber Band with special guest Andy Fairweather-Low.
Timeless Records is Chris Barber's current recording company, boasting an extensive catalogue of new and recent releases as well as reissues of rare recordings from the past. You can view all the Timeless CDs on a single page here.

Lake Records has become the premier label for re-issuing Chris Barber's recordings from the 1950s and early 1960s (plus one CD from the mid-1970s). Go to the Lake-Upbeat page to see what is currently available.

Upbeat Jazz specializes in reissues, most notably compilations of BBC Radio programme recordings from the 1950s and 1960s.
Press releases for the re-issue of Can't Stop Now.
New and recent releases.

This page will help you keep up to date with the band's recent recordings and re-issues of classics over roughly the last two years.
Individual cover pages with larger graphics, descriptions, recording information, and music excerpts.
An indispensable companion to the recordings is Gerard Bielderman's and Julian Purser's A Life in Music: The Chris Barber Discography 1949-2001.
The Chris Barber LP Collection. Beginning in September 2009, this set of pages represents the first part of what we plan to become a long-term, detailed and complete archive of the history of the Chris Barber Band on LP records.
Complete list of CDs available from Timeless Records, including thumbnail pictures of all the covers.
CDs available from Lake Records and Upbeat Jazz.
Thumbnail pictures of about 260 covers from LPs, CDs, EPs and single 45-rpm records.

Note: This is a new version of the previous thumbnails page, and was added on August 5, 2007. It differs from the previous one in that the new graphics are almost twice as large as the previous ones and are therefore much more readable. Since we chose a minimum size and resolution for the scans to be included on the new page, some of the old scans don't appear here. We plan to replace them at a higher resolution in the near future.
Music clips on the Barber website.

Some time ago, a visitor to the Chris Barber Website Message Board commented that there are few examples of Chris’s music on the site. This is actually not true, because excerpts of more than a hundred Barber recordings are scattered around on various pages in the site. However, to make it easier for visitors to the Barber website to find these musical clips, here is a complete list of all of them, showing the records (LP or CD) on which they were originally or most recently released, plus links to the relevant pages in the site.
45 rpm extended-play (EP) records from the 1950s and 1960s.
Complete list of recordings by Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, 1953-1954, featuring Chris Barber, Monty Sunshine, Lonnie Donegan, Jim Bray, and Ron Bowden.
A collage of record covers.
You can buy Chris Barber recordings and lots of other jazz at:

   Jerry Brown's Jazz 'N' Blues Records
   115 City Road
   Norwich
   Norfolk NR1 2HL
   UK
   Tel: (++44 -(0)1603-467777)
   Email: jazzjerry@btconnect.com
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