Barney Bigard

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Name = Barney Bigard


Img_capt = From left: Jack Teagarden, Sandy DeSantis, Velma Middleton, Fraser MacPherson, Cozy Cole, Arvell Shaw, Earl Hines, Barney Bigard. At the Palomar Supper Club, March 17, 1951.
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Birth_name = Barney Bigard
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Born = birth date|1906|3|3
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Died = death date and age|1980|6|27|1906|3|3
Instrument = Clarinet, Tenor saxophone
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Genre = Swing, Dixieland
Occupation = Clarinetist, Bandleader
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Associated_acts = Barney Bigard and His Jazzopators
Barney Bigard and His Orchestra
Barney Bigard and The Pelican Trio
Barney Bigard Sextet
Joe "King" Oliver
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Albany Leon Bigardcite book
title=With Louis and the Duke
first=Barney
last=Bigard
year=1986
location=New York
publisher=Oxford University Press
pages=p. 6] (March 3, 1906 – June 27, 1980), aka Barney Bigard, was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet. Bigard was born in New Orleans and studied music and clarinet with Lorenzo Tio. He moved to Chicago in the early 1920s, where he worked with "King" Joe Oliver and others. During this period, much of his recording with Oliver and others including clarinetist Johnny Dodds was on tenor saxophone, an instrument he played often with great lyricism, as on Oliver's hit recording of "Someday Sweetheart." In 1927 he joined Duke Ellington's band in New York, where he stayed until 1942. With Ellington, he was the featured clarinet soloist, while also doing some section work on tenor. After leaving Ellington, he moved to Los Angeles, California and did sound track work, including an onscreen featured role with an allstar band led by Louis Armstrong in the 1946 film "New Orleans." He began working with trombonist Kid Ory's band during the late 1940s, and later worked with Louis Armstrong's touring band, the All Stars, and others. He died in Culver City, California. Bigard wrote an autobiography entitled "With Louis And The Duke"," and he is credited as composer or co-composer on several numbers, notably the Ellington standard "Mood Indigo".

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