Portrait of Barney Bigard (Podcast #17-012)

Ellington Reflections · Sep 23, 2017

https://ellingtonreflections.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/portrait-of-barney-bigard.mp3“I honestly can’t tell much about my impression of the band that first night. I was too busy fighting the notes, the reading stuff, to pay much attention to the band. I remember the weird chords that would come in behind us. I wasn’t used to that kind of chording at all, but the more I played with them, the more accustomed my ear got to it all. I used to go to Duke in the intermission and say,”Those chords behind me on such-and-such a number: they just don’t sound right to…