Jazz Articles about Barney McClure

Barney McClure: Show Me!

by Jack Bowers
April 21, 2015

While organist Barney McClure receives top billing on this exhilarating new album, he is happy to share it, for good reason, with the superlative Central Washington University Jazz Band from Ellensburg. As McClure asserts in the liner notes, “I was no more than a lucky rider on the bus." Well, a bit more than that, Barney, as your dynamic Hammond B3 is as pivotal to its auspicious outcome as the band's inspired performance or Phil Kelly's sharp and resourceful charts. ...