[Dixielandjazz] Barney Bigard/saxophone

[Joe Carbery]

Bigard's tone is closer to that of Lester Young and Eddie Miller than that
of Coleman Hawkins. A New Orleans school of tenor playing?

Joe Carbery.

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Butch Thompson <butte1 at mac.com> wrote:

> In the recent discussion about Barney as a section man with Ellington
> (also Oliver), nobody commented on his work as soloist on tenor.  In fact
> he was his own man on that instrument -- listen to Oliver's Someday
> Sweetheart and pay attention.  That short solo and a few others demonstrate
> my point.  Lyrical playing, unlike anyone else I can think of --    Of
> course his real status is as a clarinetist, and rightly so -- but still . .
> .  . . .
>
> Butch Thompson
>
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