Results for "Barney Bigard"

Tom McDermott / Evan Christopher: Almost Native

by Louis Heckheimer
November 12, 2011

Avant-garde art has been described as seeking innovation through experimentation, preferring novelty to formula and defying existing convention. The term “avant-garde traditionalism" could be a way to describe the music of New Orleans pianist Tom McDermott. Although it is rooted in the traditions of his adopted city, he pushes boundaries with his quirky compositions and interest ...

The Eccentric Genius of Jelly Roll Morton This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

October 6, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for “Wild Man Blues," a musical biography based on personal diaries of Jelly Roll Morton. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on- demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. One ...

C Jam Blues

Featuring the music of Barney Bigard
Duration: 4:30
March 3, 2011

Riverwalk Jazz Presents "Clarinet Marmalade" this week on public radio

October 20, 2010

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a survey of the great pre-war voices of the jazz clarinet. For many Americans, their only experience with the clarinet has been through high school marching and concert bands that often use clarinet sections of up to ten players. Yet in the early half of the 20th Century, the clarinet was ...

Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole: Finesse

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 22, 2010

The epithet “flawless technique" does not even begin to describe Evan Christopher's manner of playing, perhaps, the most challenging reed instrument: the clarinet. His polished intonation is marked by the perfect annunciation of the notes that gush forth from his clarinet sometimes at great speed. His rhythmic attack is so full of surprise, especially when he ...

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2009

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
February 1, 2010

Jazz Man of the Year honors go without a doubt to Rafael Gilbert of Spain, who attended a performance by Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet at the Sigüenza Jazz Festival in December, and called the police to report that, whatever it was that Ochs was playing, it wasn't jazz. Ochs was asked to play ...

Barney's Bounce

By Barney Bigard

Label: ASV Living Era
Released: 2004

Barney Bigard & Art Hodes: Bucket's Got A Hole In It

By Barney Bigard

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000

Barney Bigard & Art Hodes: Barney Bigard & Art Hodes: Bucket's Got A Hole In It

by Mike Neely
December 1, 2000

Barney Bigard is one of the outstanding jazz clarinetists of the twentieth century. His bluesy, sensual tone and extraordinary agility graced the albums of the King Oliver, and Jelly Roll Morton before he became Duke Ellington’s regular clarinetist from 1927 to 1942. To top off this incredible career, after the second world war he became Louis ...

Paris - 14 & 15 Décembre 1960

By Barney Bigard

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1990