Musical Bacon: Barney Bigard

Artist name	Roles	Recordings
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	clarinet, reeds, tenor saxophone	(A) Gypsy Without a Song, (I Want) Something to Live For, (There Is) No Greater Love, A Blues Serenade, A Lonely Co-Ed, A Portrait of Bert Williams, Accent on Youth, Across the Track Blues, Admiration (matrix B17409), Admiration (matrix C883), After All, Alabamy Home, Alabamy Home (alternate take 2), All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M519 alternate take 2), All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M519), All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M520 alternate take 2), All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M520), All Too Soon, Are You Sticking?, At a Dixie Roadside Diner, Azure, Azure (alternate take 2), Baby When You Ain’t There, Baby! (alternate take D), Baby! (master take C), Bakiff, Battle of Swing, Battle of Swing (alternate take 1), Best Wishes, Best Wishes (alternate take A), Black Butterfly, Black Butterfly (alternate take 2), Blackbird Medley, Part 1: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Doin’ the New Low Down / I Must Have That Man! / Baby!, Blackbird Medley, Part 1: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Doin’ the New Low Down / I Must Have That Man! / Baby! (alternate take B), Blackbird Medley, Part 2: Dixie / Diga Diga Do / Porgy / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Blackbird Medley, Part 2: Dixie / Diga Diga Do / Porgy / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (alternate take B), Blackbird Medley, Part 2: Dixie / Diga Diga Do / Porgy / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (alternate take C), Bli-Blip, Blue Goose, Blue Harlem, Blue Light, Blue Mood, Blue Mood (alternate take B), Blue Mood (alternate take C), Blue Ramble, Blue Ramble (alternate take B), Blue Serge, Blue Tune, Blue Tune (alternate take B), Bojangles, Bouncing Buoyancy, Boy Meets Horn (Twits and Twerps), Braggin’ in Brass, Braggin’ in Brass (alternate take 2), Buffet Flat, Bundle of Blues, Bundle of Blues (alternate take B), Caravan, Carnival in Caroline, Chatter-Box (Jumpy), Chelsea Bridge, Chloe (Song of the Swamp), Chocolate Shake, Clarinet Lament, Clouds in My Heart, Clouds in My Heart (alternate take A), Conga Brava, Cotton, Cotton Club Stomp, Cotton Tail, Country Gal, Creole Love Call, Creole Love Call (alternate take B), Crescendo in Blue, Crescendo in Blue (alternate take 2), Diminuendo in Blue, Diminuendo in Blue (alternate take 2), Dinah Lou, Dinah Lou (alternate take 3), Dinah’s in a Jam, Doin’ the Voom Voom, Down a Carolina Lane, Drop Me Off in Harlem, Drop Me Off in Harlem (alternate take B), Ducky Wucky, Ducky Wucky (alternate take B), Dusk, Dusk on the Desert, Dusk on the Desert (alternate take 1), Eerie Moan, Eerie Moan (alternate take B), Exposition Swing, Exposition Swing (alternate take 2), Farewell Blues, Fast and Furious, Five O'Clock Whistle, Grievin’ (matrix WM 1064), Grievin’ (matrix WM 1093), Harlem Air Shaft, Harlem Speaks, Harmony in Harlem, Harmony in Harlem (alternate take 1), Harmony in Harlem (alternate take X), Hip Chic, Hot and Bothered, I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got, I Don't Mind, I Don’t Know Why I Love You So, I Don’t Know Why I Love You So (alternate take 2), I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (alternate take 1), I Must Have That Man! (alternate take D), I Must Have That Man! (master take C), I Never Felt This Way Before, I Never Felt This Way Before (alternate take B), I got It Bad and That Ain't Good, If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?), If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?) (alternate take 1), In a Mellotone, In a Mizz, In a Sentimental Mood, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Isn’t Love the Strangest Thing?, It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing), It Was a Sad Night in Harlem, It’s Swell of You, It’s Swell of You (alternate take 2), I’m Checkin’ Out - Go’om Bye, I’m Satisfied, I’m Slappin’ Seventh Avenue (With the Sole of My Shoe), I’ve Got the World on a String, I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter, I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter (alternate take 2), Jack the Bear, Jazz Cocktail, Jazz Cocktail (alternate take B), Jazz Potpourri, Jive Stomp, Jive Stomp (alternate take B), John Hardy's Wife, Johnny Come Lately, Jump for Joy, Jumpin' Punkins, Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin', Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin', Killin’ Myself, Kissin’ My Baby Good-Night, La De Doody Doo, Lady in Blue, Lady in Blue (alternate take X), Lambeth Walk, Lazy Rhapsody, Lazy Rhapsody (alternate take B), Let’s Have a Jubilee, Lightnin’, Lightnin’ (alternate take B), Little Posey, Lost in Meditation, Love Is Like a Cigarette, Love in Swingtime, Main Stem, Me and You, Merry-Go-Round (matrix B17408), Merry-Go-Round (matrix W265049 alternate take 2), Merry-Go-Round (matrix W265049-3), Mighty Like the Blues, Mighty Like the Blues (alternate take 1), Mood Indigo, Moon Mist, Moon Over Cuba, Moon Over Dixie, Moonglow, Morning Glory, My Little Brown Book, Oh, Babe! Maybe Someday, Old King Dooji, Old Plantation, Old Plantation (alternate take 2), Perdido, Portrait of the Lion, Portrait of the Lion (alternate take 2), Prelude to a Kiss, Prelude to a Kiss (alternate take 2), Prologue to Black and Tan Fantasy, Pussy Willow, Pyramid, Pyramid (alternate take 2), Raincheck, Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 1, Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 2, Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 3, Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 4, Riding on a Blue Note, Riding on a Blue Note (alternate take 2), Rocks in My Bed, Rose Room, Rose of the Rio Grande, Rose of the Rio Grande (alternate take 2), Rumpus in Richmond, Saddest Tale, Scattin’ at the Cotton Club (Scattin’ at the Kit Kat), Scattin’ at the Kit Kat (Scattin’ at the Cotton Club), Scattin’ at the Kit Kat (Scattin’ at the Cotton Club) (alternate take 2), Sentimental Lady, Sepia Panorama, Serenade to Sweden, Shoe Shine Boy, Showboat Shuffle, Skrontch (Scrounch), Skrontch (Scrounch) (alternate take 1), Slap Happy, Slap Happy (alternate take 2), Slippery Horn, Slippery Horn (alternate take B), Smorgasbord and Schnapps, So Far, So Good, Solid Old Man, Solitude, Someone, Sophisticated Lady, Sophisticated Lady (alternate take 1), St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Blues (alternate take A), Stars, Stars (alternate take B), Stepping Into Swing Society, Stormy Weather, Subtle Lament, Subtle Lament (alternate take X), Sump’n ’Bout Rhythm, Swampy River, Swing Low, Swing Low (alternate take B), Swingtime in Honolulu, T.T. on Toast (Lady in Doubt), T.T. on Toast (Lady in Doubt) (alternate take 2), Take the "A" Train, The Brown-Skin Gal (in the Calico Gown), The Flaming Sword, The Gal From Joe’s, The Gal From Joe’s (alternate take 2), The Giddybug Gallop, The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You, The Lady Who Couldn’t Be Kissed, The Mooche, The New Birmingham Breakdown, The New Birmingham Breakdown (alternate take 2), The New Black and Tan Fantasy, The New East St. Louis Toodle-O, The New East St. Louis Toodle-O (alternate take 2), The Sergeant Was Shy, The Sheik of Araby, The Sidewalks of New York, The Stevedore’s Serenade, There Shall Be No Night, There’s a Lull in My Life, There’s a Lull in My Life (alternate take 2), Tootin’ Through the Roof, Tootin’ Through the Roof (alternate take B), Truckin’, Trumpet in Spades, Twits and Twerps (Boy Meets Horn) (matrix M898-1), Twits and Twerps (Boy Meets Horn) (matrix M898-2), Uptown Downbeat (Blackout), Watermelon Man, Way Low, Weely, What Am I Here For?, What Good Would It Do?, When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet), Yearning for Love, You Can Count on Me, You Can’t Run Away From Love Tonight, You Can’t Run Away From Love Tonight (alternate take 2), You Gave Me the Gate (And I’m Swingin’), You, You Darlin', Your Love Has Faded
Louis Armstrong	clarinet	All That Meat And Potatoes, Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet On Your Floor), Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet on Your Floor), Aunt Hagar's Blues, Aunt Hagar’s Blues, Back O’Town Blues, Basin Street Blues, Beale Street Blues, Chantez les bas (Sing ’Em Low), Chantez-les bas (Sing 'Em Low), Esquire Blues, Esquire Bounce, Hesitating Blues, Hesitating Blues (rehearsal sequence), I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, Long Gone (From Bowlin' Green) (rehearsal sequence), Long Gone (From Bowlin’ Green), Long Gone (From the Bowlin’ Green), Long Gone (From the Bowlin’ Green) (rehearsal sequence), Loveless Love, Loveless Love (rehearsal sequence), Mop Mop, Muskrat Ramble, Ole Miss, Ole Miss Blues, Squeeze Me, St. Louis Blues, Stompin’ at the Savoy, The Blues, The Memphis Blues (or Mister Crump), The Memphis Blues (or, Mister Crump), Yellow Dog Blues
Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters	clarinet, reeds, tenor saxophone	A Lesson in C, Ain't the Gravy Good?, Ain't the Gravy Good? (alternate take), Beautiful Romance, Blue Is the Evening, Boudoir Benny, Carnival in Caroline, Chasin' Chippies, Delta Mood, Echoes of Harlem, Echoes of Harlem (alternate take), Echoes of Harlem (rehearsal take), Gal-Avantin', I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Jubilesta, Lost in Meditation, Lost in Meditation (alternate take), Mobile Blues, Mobile Blues (alternate take), Ol' Man River, Pigeons and Peppers, Sharpy, She's Gone, Swing Pan Alley, Swingtime in Honolulu, The Boys From Harlem, Watchin'
Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters	clarinet	Caravan, Clouds in My Heart, Clouds in My Heart (alternate take), Demi-Tasse, Demi-Tasse (alternate take), Four and One Half Street, Four and One-Half Street (alternate take), Frolic Sam, Frolic Sam (alternate take), Get It Southern Style, Get It Southern Style (alternate take), If You're Ever in My Arms Again, If You're Ever in My Arms Again (alternate take), Jazz a la Carte, Jazz a la Carte (alternate take), Lament for a Lost Love, Lament for a Lost Love (alternate take), Moonlight Fiesta, Moonlight Fiesta (alternate take), Sponge Cake and Spinach, Sponge Cake and Spinach (alternate take), Stompy Jones
Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars	clarinet	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue, Ain't Misbehavin', All That Meat and No Potatoes, Basin Street Blues, Blue Turning Grey Over You, Bugle Call Rag, Honeysuckle Rose, I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby and My Baby Is Crazy 'Bout Me, I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, My Bucket's Got a Whole in It, New Orleans Function, Panama, Pretty Little Missy, Shokiaan (South African Song), Squeeze Me, Struttin' With Some Barbecue, Tenderly / You'll Never Walk Alone, Twelfth Street Rag
Duke Ellington	clarinet, tenor saxophone	Blue Serge, C Jam Blues, Clementine, Concerto for Cootie, Cotton Tail, Five O'Clock Drag, In a Mellow Tone, Ko Ko, Main Stem, Perdido, Take the "A" Train, Warm Valley
Ritmo Alegre	clarinet	C Jam Blues, China Boy, Doobooloo Blues, Double Gin Stomp, Honeysuckle Rose, Mood Indigo, Promenade aux Champs-Élysées, Royal Garden Blues, S'Wonderful, Sobbin' and Cryin', Struttin' with Some Barbecue, Sweet Lorraine
Sex Drive	clarinet	Black and Blue, Bugle Call Rag, High Society, Muskrat Ramble, My Monday Date, New Orleans Function, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Panama, Royal Garden Blues, Russian Lullaby, That's for Me
Circo Inverso & The Mystery Train Project	clarinet	Black and Tan Fantasy, Cottontail, Do Nuthin' Till You Hear From Me, Drop Me Off in Harlem, Duke's Place, I'm Just a Lucky So and So, In a Mellow Tone, Mood Indigo, The Beautiful American, The Mooche
Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra	reeds	A Sailboat in the Moonlight (alternate take), A Salboat in the Moonlight, Foolin' Myself, Foolin' Myself (alternate take), Peckin', You'll Never Go to Heaven (If You Break My Heart), You'll Never Go to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) (alternate take)
The Gotham Stompers	clarinet, reeds	Alabamy Home, Did Anyone Ever Tell You?, Did Anyone Ever Tell You? (alternate take), My Honey's Lovin' Arms, Where Are You?
Jelly Roll Morton Trio	clarinet	My Little Dixie Home, Smilin' the Blues Away, That's Like It Ought to Be, Turtle Twist
Jack Teagarden's Big Eight	clarinet	Shine, St James Infirmary, The Big Eight Blues, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
Feva Forever	clarinet	Barney Goin' Easy, Chew-Chew-Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum), Just Another Dream, Utt-Da-Zay (The Tailor Song)
Edna Bentz Woods	clarinet, tenor saxophone	Flamingo, Ko-Ko, My Greatest Mistake, Never No Lament
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers	clarinet	Dead Man Blues, Dead Man Blues (take 1), Sidewalk Blues, Sidewalk Blues (take 3)
Billie Holiday	clarinet	Billie’s Blues, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, I’ll Get By
Barney Bigard and His Orchestra	clarinet	Drummer's Delight, If I Thought You Cared, If I Thought You Cared (alternate take)
Rex Stewart & His Orchestra	clarinet	"Fat Stuff" Serenade, I'll Come Back for More, San Juan Hill
The 1969 Club	clarinet	Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, Mahogany Hall Stomp, Where the Blues Were Born in New Orleans
Roy Eldridge	clarinet	I Got Rhythm, Tea for Two
Mildred Bailey	clarinet	Squeeze Me
We Are Van Peebles	clarinet	Kiss of Fire
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band	clarinet	Bucket Got a Hole in It
King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators	clarinet, saxophone	Sugarfoot Stomp (Dippermouth Blues)
Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers	tenor saxophone	New Orleans Stomp
Friendship Musical Group	clarinet	All of Me / The Mooche / Margie / Louisiana / Baby Won't You Please Come Home? / It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing / Doctor Jazz
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven	clarinet	Blues in the South
The Jungle Band	reeds	Rockin’ in Rhythm
Trixie Smith	clarinet	No Good Man
Keklik Aile	clarinet, tenor saxophone	Diga Diga Doo

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