Artist Name: Eddie Barefield Artist Biography: A journeyman saxophonist and arranger, Eddie Barfield (b. 12/12/09), Scandia, NY) boasted a productive 60-year career before his death in 1991. Barefield began freelancing in the 1930´s working in such notable swing-era orchestras as Cab Calloway´s, Fletcher Henderson´s, and McKinney´s Cotton Pickers. He supplied big-band arrangements to Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Jimmy Dorsey before working as a staff musician at ABC in the 1940s. The ´50s found Barefield doing mostly session work in the studios and on Broadway before returning to longtime associate, Calloway. A member of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Orchestra, Barefield will best be remembered as a sympathetic soloist on tenor and alto, a talented orchestra, the man who helped Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway shine. E-mail:   Web Site: