Chris Walker
Chris was born in 1939 and took up playing clarinet at the age of 15, having been a member of the school recorder band since he was 11. After leaving school he played regularly around the London jazz scene, as a member of The Freddy Shaw Jazzmen, before becoming a professional musician with The London City Stompers and, later, with the Mike Daniels Big Band and Colin Kingwell’s Jazz Bandits. Chris moved to Hampshire in 1969 and, since then, he has worked with most of the local jazz personalities, was a memb
In addition to managing and fronting ‘The Chris Walker Swingtet’ and The Pedigree Jazz band, Chris has, for Messrs P&O Cruises, co-ordinated Jazz Themes aboard 9 highly appraised cruises on board Canberra and Oriana, Aurora and Artemis. He also acted as jazz advisor to Portsmouth City Council for their Jazz Day every summer on Southsea Sea front, helped set up the original concept for both the Reading and Chichester Real Ale & Jazz Festivals For over 30 years Chris produced and presented a weekly radio jazz