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Terry Henebery, BBC producer who gave The Beatles their radio debut on Saturday Club – obituary
- Terry Henebery, who has died aged 91, was a versatile television and radio producer who first brought the Beatles into the nation’s homes, producing their debut on Saturday Club and their own series Pop Go The Beatles for the BBC Light Programme.
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Protest leaders arrested in Ottawa in Canada police crackdown
Canadian police have arrested two protest leaders in Ottawa and threatened to break up a three-week protest against the country’s Covid restrictions. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were seized around Parliament Hill, just days after Canada invoked an emergency law for the first time. Canada has been wracked by weeks of demonstrations and blockades that shut down border crossings into the US, inflicted economic damage on both countries and created a political crisis for Prime Minister Justin Trud
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Canada protest: Parliament cancels its work as police operation to break up protest begins
Canada's parliament was halted and MPs were warned away from Ottawa's downtown area as police began arresting protesters and clearing trucks that had occupied the capital for weeks.
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‘British blues will survive the apocalypse!’: how the underground scene kept its groove
‘British blues will survive the apocalypse!’: how the underground scene kept its groove. Seventy years ago, the blues arrived on these shores and transformed the musical landscape. Today, it lives in the shadow of the genres it inspired – but the scene is still thriving
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Chris Barber: A Trailblazer’s Legacy – the evolution of a jazz hero
Chris Barber: A Trailblazer’s Legacy – the evolution of a jazz hero(The Last Music Co)The late bandleader’s 70-year career packed in restless shifts of style, virtuoso skill and guest spots from jazz’s best Chris Barber in 1957. Photograph: Frank Apthorp/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock
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Chris Barber: Jazz musician who paved the way for some of Britain’s greatest artists
Without his pioneering work, the careers of acts such as Lonnie Donegan and the Rolling Stones might never have achieved prominence
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Sounds of the kitchen sink: trad jazz and British cinema's new wave
Sounds of the kitchen sink: trad jazz and British cinema's new waveChris Barber’s death is a reminder of trad’s key place n the explosion of a film style that moved to the music of the era Chaos on the dancefloor … Momma Don’t Allow. Photograph: Bfi/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
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How British jazz almost became cooler than Beatlemania
The history of post-war British jazz is often painted in broad brushstrokes, and it goes something like this. In the late 1950s, the trad jazz revival of the 1930s and 1940s reached its zenith, led by bandleaders such as Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball. But the rise of American rock ’n’ roll knocked it off its perch, and in the early 1960s, the arrival of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones dealt it the coup de grâce. Hence jazz vanished from clubs and dance halls, and clung to life only in its new hig
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Chris Barber obituary
Chris Barber obituaryJazz trombonist and bandleader whose eclectic tastes helped to shape the face of British popular music Chris Barber in Cologne in 2012; his band was especially popular in Germany. Photograph: Getty Images
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Chris Barber, British trad jazz bandleader, dies aged 90
Chris Barber, British trad jazz bandleader, dies aged 90. Multi-instrumentalist helped forge the skiffle craze with Lonnie Donegan and recorded with Paul McCartney
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Chris Barber, one of the greatest figures in the history of British jazz – obituary
Chris Barber, who has died aged 90, led the world’s most popular and longest-lived traditional jazz band. The unflagging appetite for its music, especially among British and north European audiences, defied every conventional tenet of the entertainment business. Barber’s enduring success was due partly to his astuteness in broadening his style and adapting judiciously to changing times. These innovations were often ahead of fashion and always the sincere product of his own wide-ranging enthusias
