These video performances (thanks to Simon Stribling, a brilliant trumpeter and alto saxophonist) have been on YouTube for perhaps fifteen years, but even I didn’t know of all of them, so I urge you to watch, enjoy, and marvel.
The band alongside Bob, cornet, is Neville Stribling, alto saxophone, clarinet, vocal; Ade Monsbourgh, tenor saxophone, clarinet, vocal; Graham Coyle, piano; Conrad Joyce, string bass; Peter Cleaver, guitar / banjo; Allan Browne, drums, washboard. Jazz royalty. And the repertoire has a distinct Louis flavor with one bow to the Rhythmakers and another to Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter: what could be wrong with that?
Astonishing lyrical hot playing, offered to us with the greatest casualness: the work of masters.
WHEN YOU’RE SMILING:
IF I COULD BE WITH YOU ONE HOUR TONIGHT (vocal, Neville):
OH, PETER (YOU’RE SO NICE)!:
MY BUDDY (for Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter):
I’M A DING DONG DADDY (FROM DUMAS):
I rarely make such claims, but if you can listen to this music without being uplifted, I would think we have little in common.
I am, for the moment, concluding my little series of loving homages to Bob Barnard. But he and his sound are never far from my ears and heart. And I — a retired academic — offer JAZZ LIVES’ readers the most pleasing homework: go and find more of his music, to start and end your days in joy.
Thanks also to John Scurry for his consistent support and his help with this post.
May your happiness increase!
JAZZ LIVES 
Thank you for these posts on Bob. I was grateful that he spent time in Toronto and grateful that John Norris did the right thing by making it happen. We will miss that honey toned horn of his.
You can find Bob’s playing on numerous labels – Sackville, La Brava, Swaggie and others and we mustn’t forget those absolutely wonderful Nif Nuf discs which documented the annual Bob Barnard jazz party in Australia. American guests included Marty Grosz, Ralph Sutton, Evan Christopher, Dan Barrett, Bob Havens and others although many a time it was the Australians who raised the bar. Just like Bob, they were all world class players. Thanks again for the posts.
Thanks Michael for your posts on Bob.Like you I have been having my own little jazz festival of Bob’s music this past week and enjoying and absorbing all the magic and wonder of it all. A little pedantry. It’s Monsbourgh not Monsborough, probably not much to be concerned with but Ade could get a bit tetchy about the misspelling.
Thanks. Corrected (although not without difficulty)!