BOBBY GORDON (CLARINET)
Genres: Dixieland, Swing, Pop, Art Song, Folk • United States

Bobby Gordon was the JCJB clarinetist in the early 1970s and appears at the Landing from time to time as a guest artist. Bobby is a native New Yorker. He studied in New York City with the great jazz clarinetist Joe Marsala, who called Bobby his “most gifted student and protege.” Bobby has worked with Eddie Condon, Wild Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett and Muggsy Spanier. He was the house clarinetist at Condon’s in New York City from 1977 to 1980. Additionally, Bobby has long associations with Jim Cullum’s Happy Jazz Band and with blues singer Leon Redbone. Bobby has recorded solo LPs for Decca-MCA; several albums with both Redbone and the Happy Jazz Band; Hal Smith’s Rhythmakers; and Marty Grosz’s Destiny Tots and Orphan Newsboys. His recordings include a selection of beautiful tunes with the legendary jazz harpist Adele Girard Marsala, available on Arbors Records and featuring Ray Sherman on piano, Marty Corb on read more...