Barney Bigard Tonight (3-3-09) on JFBL

[Lazaro Vega]

Please join Blue Lake Public Radio from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. tonight for the clarinet (and some tenor saxophone) of Barney Bigard.

Happy Square Root Day Birthday to Albany Leon Bigard.

http://www.bluelake.org/radio

Edited March 3, 2009 by Lazaro Vega

[Tjazz]

Gee, I thought he passed away.

Barney Bigard

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Background information

Birth name Barney Bigard

Born March 3, 1906(1906-03-03)

in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Died June 27, 1980 (aged 74)

Genre(s) Swing, Dixieland

Occupation(s) Clarinetist, Bandleader

Instrument(s) Clarinet, Tenor saxophone

Associated acts Duke Ellington

Louis Armstrong

Barney Bigard Sextet

Joe "King" Oliver

Albany Leon Bigard[1] (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 Joe "King" 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".

[AllenLowe]

I just saw Barney last week -

[Lazaro Vega]

Celebrating the anniversary of his birth.

[jazztrain]

OK, I'll bite. What makes it a "square root" birthday?

Celebrating the anniversary of his birth.

[Lazaro Vega]

3-03-09.

Yesterday was a square root day.

Next up:

4-04-16

then,

5-05-25

and,

6-06-36