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After its 1956 Newport appearance pushed up the Ellington band's stock, it capitalised with festival specials, recorded here in 1959

Two-album collection with bonuses underlines the musical connections between Ellington's small groups and immediate post-bop jazz stylists

Chris Barber obituary John Fordham © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Getty Images The bandleader and trombonist Chris Barber, who has died aged 90, was one of the most accessible and charismatic figures to emerge from the New Orleans-inspired jazz revivalist movement that played such a significant part in shaping British popular music between the late 1940s and mid-60s. As a bandleader he began by taking the cornettist Ken Colyer’s rugged, fundamentalist proto-jazz revivalism of the early 50s and refashioning it into a more elegant, more ebullient and more accessible...