Roger Wyndham Barnes obituary

In 1988, a 40th birthday party for Roger Wyndham Barnes climaxed when he led around 100 musicians connected to Jive Alive, the most renowned of the groups he had formed, through a sensational rendition of Hoochie Coochie Man at the Olympia ballroom in Reading.

Roger, who has died of a brain tumour aged 66, was a singer who kept the blues faith for decades. In pubs across Berkshire and the surrounding area, Jive Alive tackled every aspect of perhaps pop's most stylised form. Among their record releases was a 1984 revival of Louis Jordan's Choo Choo Ch'Boogie, remembered by Roger from listening to his father's record collection.