NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Barney Bigard

Bigard was born in New Orleans and studied music and clarinet with Lorenzo Tio. Moved to Chicago in the early 1920s, and played with "King" Joe Oliver, then to New York City where he joined Duke Ellington's Orchestra, where he stayed from 1927 through 1942. Moved to Los Angeles, California and did sound track work, then joined Kid Ory's band. In the 1950s and early 1960s he was with Louis Armstrong's All Stars. Bigard died in Culver City, California.

Bigard wrote an autobiography entitled "With Louis And The Duke". He is credited as composer or co_composer on several numbers, notably "Mood Indigo".

Categories: 1906 births | 1980 deaths | African Americans | Jazz musicians | New Orleanians

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Barney Bigard (129 words)
	Bigard was born in New Orleans on March 3, 1906, and studied music and clarinet with Lorenzo Tio[?].
	Bigard died in Los Angeles on June 27, 1980.
	Bigard wrote an autobiography entitled "With Louis And The Duke".

Barney Bigard (245 words)
	In 1927, Bigard toured with Oliver, but quit shortly afterwards and played for a little with the Charles Elgar's Creole Orchestra and Luis Russell Orchestra.
	Bigard found his niche with Duke Ellington's Orchestra, where he almost exclusively played clarinet.
	Bigard was semi-retired after 1962, but still played now and then, recording with Earl Hines, and playing in a Johnny St. Cyr's Dixieland band called the Young Men from New Orleans at Disneyland in Los Angeles.

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