There Chris Albertson recorded several sides for the new Danish Storyville label, including some featuring only Sunshine, Donegan and Barber on double bass.
On the lighter side they also organized a number of ball room dances in Cambridge and some very popular events featuring the Jazz Bands of Chris Barber and Acker Bilk who were in their heyday at that time.
Chris Christie | Chris Brown | The Barber of Seville | Everybody Hates Chris | Chris Brown (American entertainer) | Chris Berman | Chris Rock | Chris Moyles | Samuel Barber | Chris Daggett | Chris | Chris Isaak | Chris Brown (American singer) | Chris Rea | Chris de Burgh | Chris Tomlin | Chris Squire | Chris Hardwick | Tiki Barber | Chris Tarrant | Chris Daughtry | Chris Paul | Chris Moneymaker | Chris Farley | Chris Evert | Chris Cooper (actor) | Chris Cooper | Chris Carter | Chris Albertson | Chris Roberts |
He ran his own club in London from 1951 and headed a seven-member ensemble; sidemen in this group included Chris Barber, Alan Elsdon, Al Fairweather, and Colin Smith.
During this period Davies and Korner worked as session musicians, and often backed Ottilie Patterson during her featured set with husband Chris Barber's band, using amplified instruments for the first time - which did not go down well with their blues purist audience and many fellow musicians.
During the 1950s and well into the 60s Chris Barber, Terry Lightfoot, Acker Bilk, George Chisholm, Kenny Ball, Mick Mulligan and Mike Cotton - who "went R'n'B" in 1963-4 - made regular appearances live, on the air and in the British charts, as did Louis Armstrong himself.
The music programme was aimed at all tastes: a concert version of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess and two performances of Jonathan Doves’s opera Tobias and the Angel; a symphony concert; jazz with the Big Chris Barber Band, the Royal Northern College of Music Jazz Collective and Dave Mott; and folk with the New Rope String Band.