Emile Barnes
Emile Barnes ( born February 18, 1892 in New Orleans, † March 2, 1970 ) was an American jazz clarinetist of the New Orleans Jazz.
Barnes studied with Lorenzo Tio Jr., Alphonse Picou, George Baquet and Big Eye Louis Nelson clarinet and was in 1908 in New Orleans an active musician, played with Buddy Petit, and during the 1920s in the band of Chris Kelly. In the next two decades, he worked mostly outside the music scene, but played in the 1930s in the Camelia band of Wooden Joe Nicholas and in the late 1940s with Kid Howard. He is best known outside of New Orleans with the revival that accompanied the opening of Preservation Hall in 1961. He was heard on several New Orleans compilations of Folkways Records from 1951/52, and took in 1961 and 1963 for Jazzology.
His brother Polo Barnes is also a clarinetist.