Bob Barnard - New York Notes

Release date 1996

Among the great jazz trumpeters of Australia, Bob Barnard offers generally favored executing trad and pre-bop jazz. Younger brother from the great drummer Len Barnard, he began playing jazz with a family group music group in 1947 and is at Len’s group during a lot of the 1947-55 period. Barnard also led his very own music group and, after shifting to Sydney in 1957, he caused Graeme Bell and gigged locally. Barnard initial found the U.S. in 1978, where he was popular on the Bix Beiderbecke celebration in Davenport, Iowa, and it has since made an appearance at a number of American celebrations. He debuted on information as a head as soon as 1952, produced models for Swaggie, Calligraph and Sackville (1995), amongst others, and also documented with Ralph Sutton. Bob Barnard’s exceptional technique, solid shade and swinging design have produced him a favorite attraction within the trad jazz globe.