Bio:

Tony has appeared at all of Australia's jazz festivals, accompanied visiting jazz and show-biz stars from overseas, won 'best guitarist' polls, Formed Australia's first 5 guitar big band 'Interplay', led his own bands and worked as musical director on cruise ships. Tony has a diverse range of albums to his name(25 and counting) ranging from jazz to blues and classical, and has played with a wide range of artists including The Australian Chamber Orchestra, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Barney Kessel, Earl Hines, Nat Adderley, Nancy Wilson, Dave Liebman, Keely Smith, Barry Humphries ,Dan Barrett, Cliff Richard, Rufus Reid, Jim Mullen, Curtis Stigers, Don Burrows, Billy Field, Louis Stewart, Georgie Fame, Kevin Spacey, The Inkspots, , Ronnie Corbett, Clare Teal , Jacqui Dankworth, Claire Martin,Scarlet Strallen, Peter Grant, Marti Pellow,Tony Hadley, John Colianni, and is currently a member of the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra . He has composed for and appeared in television and stage shows. Now based in the UK, Tony performs regularly at Ronnie Scott’s and other top London jazz venues. As well as performing all over the UK and Australia, he has also performed in Paris, Montreal, Venice, Brussels, Amsterdam, Verona, Singapore, Berlin, Cologne, Istanbul, Edinburgh, Dublin, Dubai, Sydney, Auvers sur Oise, Auckland, Suva, Noumea, Vila and even tiny Samurai island (new guinea) Amongst others. Tony has performed for HRH Prince Charles, HRH Queen of Denmark, HRH Prince Turki al Faisal , Sultan of Brunei , Australian Prime Ministers Hawke , Keating, Fraser and Howard , President Giskard of France , Sir David Attenborough , Sir Richard Harris , Sir Paul Mc Cartney, Sir Elton John, Sir David Frost, Sean Connery , Sophia Loren , Sir Richard Attenborough , Sir Ian Mc Kellan , Sting , Ozzy Osbourne, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Daniel Craig , Paul Hogan , Paul Newman , Sam Neil , Nicole Kidman , Hugh Grant , Kathy Bates , Liz Hurley, Barbra Windsor , Bryan Brown , Chick Corea , Elle MacPherson , Sir Cliff Richard , Andrea Bocelli , Bert Weedon , The Cast of Eastenders , Rolf Harris , Jodie Kidd , Lulu , Bryan Ferry , Sir Tim Rice and Matt "guitar" Murphy amongst others.

Member Since:

September 08, 2006

Members:

The Ronnie Scott's big band. My own band when playing in London, Jerome Davies on Bass and Rod Brown or Rod youngs on drums. If my brother Adam is in town , then he usually has the drum chair. Jim Mullen on guitar often, as well as Pete Long or Matt Wates on sax . I am also in Peter Ind's band "bass clef international" ,Pete Long's "skyrockets", Occasionally the Ronnie Scott's All Stars and the Boisdale Blue rhythm band , I often use my long time friend Peter Ind on bass when he is not in France, Barbados, Spain or somewhere with better weather than here.

Influences:

Issac Asimov, Joe Pass, Nikola Tesla, Tal Farlow, Rameses the 2nd, J.R.R Tolkein, George Barnes, Louis Stewart, Louis Armstrong, W.C Fields, my Shed in Bondi, Barney Kessel, Keith Emerson, The Ocean, Space Travel, The Australian bush, John Sangster, Herb Ellis, Claude Bolling, Too many classical composers to mention , but not Chopin. Beer, Wine, my uncle Bill, Science of all kinds, the Abreau brothers, Sabicas, Django to a point , surfing, juggling, Most the Sydney jazz musos,especially from the late 70's and early 80's, my Father Bob and my uncle Len, pirates, the three stooges, Marty Mooney,ancient monuments and stone circles, beer again and cider, good jokes, H Rider Haggard, Peter Corris, J G Ballantyne, Arthur C Clarke, Carl Sagan, Atheists and Agnostics,The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers,The South Pacific, the Marx brothers, my fabulously brilliant mother Pat, Living on a ship, the south Pacific islands,stories of survival, My Beautiful wife Erika,

Sounds Like:

The guy on these recordings. Riverboat days. (Bob Barnard and friends 1975) Stephen Leigh and the Semi-Tones .Sea Cruise (1982) Secret Alchemy. Fractal Fairy Tales. (1989) Songs without words. (TB and Robin Forsaith 1988) Tony Barnards All Hat Jazz. (1990) Rock 'n roll memories. (Billy Fields band (1991) In Western Light. (Billy Fields band 1991) Orange Coloured Sky. ( Paul Fisher (1994) To Swing or not to swing . ( Ray Ward trio 1996) Tony Barnard trio, the London sessions. (1997) Nightworkers. (Campbell Burnap Quintet (1998) This Time. (Kristina Joy 1998) Oz Originals. ( Bob Barnard 1998) Playing for time. ( Gina Harkell 1998) Looking out..Jazz bass Baroque . (Peter Ind 1999) Millenium at the Lanesborough. (Confrey Phillips 1999) Guitar Jam, London sessions 2. (Tony Barnard and Peter Ind 2000) Live at the 606 club. (Bass clef international 2001) Jazz Seasons. (Chris D' sylver quartet 2002) Inventions and Interludes for solo guitar. (Tony Barnard 2003) The Barnards live at Ronnie Scotts. (2003) Kimoko. (2004) Boisdale Blue Rhythm band. (2004) The Barnards live at Ronnie Scotts . (2005) Three generations of of Barnards. (2006) Foreign intrigue. (Tony Barnard and Jim Mullen 2006) Songs for swinging smokers. (Boisdale blue rhythm band 2007) Sixty years with my bass. (Peter Ind, Tony Barnard and Matt Wates 2008) Smile. (Georgina Bromilow and her Orchestra 2009)

Record Label:

www.wavejazz.com, www.newmarketmusic.com ,