jazz2_Barney

By day, Barney is an oceanographer but
by night, he plays his trombones (tenor,
alto and soprano) with some of the finest
jazz musicians in Northern New England.
Barney began his jazz career in Boston
in the mid 1970s with Craig Ball, Dave
McMillan and Jimmy Mazzy, as the
"Dixie Cookbook", playing at the
restaurant "Bettes Rolls Royce" in
Haymarket Square. In 1978 he began
performing with veteran stride pianist,
Bob Page and the Downeast Jazz
Babies (including blues guitarist, TJ
Wheeler, and the late, great, Dick Cash).
He still perfoms with Bob and the Jazz
Babies and appears on two of Bob's
CDs here and here

In 1980 Barney moved to Southern
California and regularly performed with
John Best (original lead trumpet with the
Glenn Miller Orchestra). He also studied
with the Kansas City Blues Trombonist,
Jimmy Cheatham.

From 1988 to 1995, Barney performed
with the Frank Hubble Big Band and
Barrie Mann Orchestra in Miami, as well
as other small combos.

Since returning to Maine in the mid
1990s, Barney has had the good fortune
to play with some of Northern New
England's "swinging-est" jazz musicians:
Dick Creeden, Muriel Havenstein, Pete
Collins, Lefty McAuslin, Henry Berry,
Dave Page, Jack Tukey, Dave Pierce to
name just a few, in the collective known
as the "Sheepscot Jazz and Swing
Company".

They feature tunes by Ellington, Basie,
Goodman, Waller, Gershwin, Porter and
more. The bottom line for SJ&SC is, if it
swings, they play it!

Since 1997, Barney also has been
performing cool jazz with "Novel Jazz" a
musical co-op of fine straight-ahead jazz
musicians including Mike Mitchell, Bruce
Boege, Mickey Felder, Mark Macksoud,
Herb Maine, Jeff Densmore, Dan Clark
and some special guests, Brad Terrie,
Kenny Gaspar and Nat Balch.

Come to the Skidompha Public Library
on Main Street in Damariscotta, Maine,
where they perform a monthly session
titled "Jazz Amongst the Books", in the
library atrium.