John Picard (musician)

John Picard
Birth name	John Picard
Born	(1934-05-17) 17 May 1934 (age 90) Tottenham, London, England
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Trombone
Years active	1954–present

John Francis Picard (born 17 May 1934 in Tottenham, London, England)^[1] is an English jazz trombonist.

Biography

Picard starting learning music in 1941 by taking lessons on the piano when aged seven years old. After serving in the RAF, during which he played at weekends with Cy Laurie, he spent a further four months with Laurie before joining Humphrey Lyttelton, from 1954 until 1961.^[2] From 1962 to the early 1970s, he worked with Tony Coe as well as co-leading a quintet with Kathy Stobart in the late 1960s. From 1975 to 1973, he was a member of the London Jazz Big Band, led by Stan Greig.^[3]

During the early 1980s, with his friends Ian Stewart, Colin Smith and Dick Morrissey, he was a founding member of Rocket 88,^[1] and later went on to join the Charlie Watts Big Band.^[4]

Picard's son is tenor saxophonist Simon Picard.^[5]

References

1. Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 1954/5. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
2. David Taylor's British Jazz website Archived 2010-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
3. Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby and Priestley, Brian Rough Guide to Jazz Rough Guides, 2004 ISBN 1-84353-256-5 ISBN 978-1-84353-256-9 at Google Books
4. John Picard Biography, AllMusic, Retrieved 21 May 2020
5. John Picard Profile Who's who of British Jazz by John Chilton, Archive.org, Retrieved 26 May 2020.

Bibliography

• John Chilton, Who’s Who of British Jazz. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004 (ISBN 0826472346)