Barney Bigard

Albany Leon Barney Bigard was an American jazz clarinetist who also played tenor saxophone, known for his 15year tenure with Duke Ellington.

Bigard was born in New Orleans to a family of Creoles. He attended local schools, and studied music and clarinet with Lorenzo Tio. In the early 1920s he moved to Chicago, where he worked with 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 Olivers hit recording of Someday Sweetheart.

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