Barney Bigard Sextet Joe Thomas & Art Tatim - Sweet Marijuana Brown (1945)

Black & White Records 13 A - Song Recorded 1-5-1945 In NYC New York. Song Written By (Leonard Feather). Flashbacks 1920’s - 1940’s Novelty Songs Of An Era Long Gone Bye. Drug Songs. Albany Leon Bigard (March 3, 1906 -- June 27, 1980), aka Barney Bigard, was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet. Bigard was born in New Orleans and studied music and clarinet with Lorenzo Tio. He moved to Chicago in the early 1920s, where he worked with Joe “King“ Oliver