BOB BARNARD

Bob Barnard, Australia’s highly acclaimed cornet/trumpet player, gained experience at an early age in Melbourne in the late 1940s with the local brass band, his mother’s dance band and older-brother Len Barnard’s South City Stompers. During the 1950s he worked in Sydney with the Ray Price trio and the Port Jackson Jazz Band and in Melbourne with Kenn Jones Powerhouse Band and the Max Collie band and freelanced regularly. After moving to Sydney permanently in 1962 as a founder member of the Graeme Bell All Stars and extensive recording and studio work he formed his own band in 1974. It toured Australia, Europe and the US regularly, held long residencies at Sydney hotels, restaurants and clubs and was featured at regular jazz festival and concert engagements in Australia and overseas.

Bob had a well-deserved international reputation and toured the US, Europe and Australia as a featured soloist to the worldwide respect and admiration of the top jazz musicians, audiences and critics. His extensive recording activities over many years include some of the world’s greatest jazz stars. Bob Barnard was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1990 for his enormous contribution to Australian jazz. Other awards include the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal (1977), the Australian Jazz Critics Award (1990, 1991, 1992), an Advance Australia Award (1991) and two Mo awards as jazz performer of the year (1993, 1997). He was inducted into the Montsalvat Hall of Fame (1988), the Australian Legends of Jazz (1991), the Australian Jazz Hall of Fame (1993), and in 2008 was made an Honorary Life Member of the Victorian Jazz Archive. Bob Barnard died in 2022.

SINGLES 
''Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me / Play It Cool'' 1974 ATA

ALBUMS 

'Dixieland Goes Pop' 1973 Axis
'16 Dixieland Greats' 1973 Axis
'Fidgety Feet' 1975 ATA
'Count 'Em In' 1975 Swaggie
'Riverboat Days' 1976 Swaggie
' Bud Freeman With Bob Barnard's Jazz Band' 1976 Swaggie
'First Up' 1976 Swaggie
'Ned Kelly Jazz Suite' 1977 Swaggie
'Music To Midnight' [with The Kenny Powell Orchestra] 1980 ABC
'Partners In Crime' [with Ralph Sutton] 1983 Dialoque
'Just Fooling Around' [with Ricky May] 1987 ABC
'Bob Barnard At The Winery 1987 ABC
'Big Bob Little Ben' 1988 Fly Records
'Moment's Notice' 1991 Juannote Records
'Easy Street' [with Ralph Sutton, Len Barnard & Bob Barnar 1991 dialoque
'Bulldogs & Kangaroos' [with Kenny Ball] 1994 Broad Music
'Cornet Chop Suey (Bob Barnard In Sweden)' 1995 Opus 3
'Bob At The Batman' 1995 Launceston Jazz Club Inc.
'New York Notes' 1996 Sackville Recordings
'Shades Of Duke' [with Joe Wulf] 1996 Institute of Art Records
'Stardust' La Brava Music
'Bob Barnard Presents Oz Originals' 1998 La Brava Music
'The Joint Is Jumpin': The Music Of Fats Waller' [with Ralph Sutton] 1999 La Brava Music
'Cornet Copia' [with Jim Cullum] 2000 La Brava Music
'Meets Bob Barnard' [with Engelbert Wrobel's Hot Jazz] 2002 Click
'Thanks A Million' [with John Sheridan] 2003 Sackville Recordings
'Looking Back' 2004 The Bill Armstrong Collection
'Drop Me Off At Harlem' [with Danny Moss, Brian Lemon] 2004 WEA
'Bob Barnard's Jazz Party 2004' 2005 Nif Nuf Jazz Recordings
'The Nearness Of Two: Playing The Music Of Hoagy Carmichael' [with John Sheridan] 2006 Nif Nuf Jazz Recordings
'Brothers In Jazz' [with Len Barnard] 2010 Swaggie\
'Just My Luck' [with The Date Brothers] 2016
'What's New' Sackville Recordings
'Stanley's Washboard Kings Starring Bob Barnard' New York Jazz
'Fats Enough' [with Lhotzky Trio] Hot Sky Records

References

http://www.jazzinaustralia.org.au/Musicians/Bob%20Barnard.html