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Monty Sunshine
Monty Sunshine
English clarinetist
1
Ken Colyer
Ken Colyer
British musician
2
Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan
Scottish-born skiffle musician
3
Pat Halcox
Pat Halcox
British trumpeter
4
Bruce Turner
Bruce Turner
English musician
5
Denis Preston
Denis Preston
British record producer
6
Beryl Bryden
Beryl Bryden
English jazz singer
7
Kenny Ball
Kenny Ball
English trumpeter, band leader, arranger
8
Diz Disley
Diz Disley
Anglo-Canadian musician
9
Alex Welsh
Alex Welsh
Scottish musician
10
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
11
George Melly
George Melly
English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer
12
George Lewis
George Lewis
American musician
13
Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
14
Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander
Jamaican pianist
15
Sammy Rimington
Sammy Rimington
British musician
16
Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
17
Emmett Berry
Emmett Berry
American musician
18
Giorgio Gomelsky
Giorgio Gomelsky
Georgian musician (1934-2016)
19
Panama Francis
Panama Francis
American musician
20
Dick Morrissey
Dick Morrissey
British jazz musician
21
Edmond Hall
Edmond Hall
American jazz clarinetist
22
Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
23
Cat Anderson
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
24
Buddy Bolden
Buddy Bolden
American cornetist and jazz pioneer
25
Acker Bilk
Acker Bilk
English recording artist; clarinetist and vocalist
26
Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
27
Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
28
Ottilie Patterson
Ottilie Patterson
Irish singer
29
Jeff Hamilton
Jeff Hamilton
American musician
30
Cyril Davies
Cyril Davies
British musician
31
Clark Terry
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
32
Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
American trumpeter
33
Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner
British blues musician and radio broadcaster
34
Andy Fairweather Low
Andy Fairweather Low
Welsh singer, guitarist and songwriter
35
Jimmy Woode
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
36
Joe Temperley
Joe Temperley
Scottish musician
37
Joe Williams
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
38
Jan Allan
Jan Allan
Trumpter and composer
39
Al Hibbler
Al Hibbler
American baritone vocalist
40
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
41
Rod Mason
Rod Mason
British trumpeter
42
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
43
Lawrence Brown
Lawrence Brown
jazz trombonist
44
Al Grey
Al Grey
American jazz musician
45
Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan
American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908-1975)
46
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
47
Tony Coe
Tony Coe
British jazz musician
Intro
English trombonist
Record Labels
Awards Received
honorary citizen of New Orleans
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Donald Christopher Barber OBE (17 April 1930 – 2 March 2021) was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with "Petite Fleur" in 1959, he helped the careers of many musicians. These included 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 Barber's band. He provided an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner, and sponsored African-American blues musicians to visit Britain, making Barber a significant figure in launching the British rhythm and blues and "beat boom" of the 1960s.