Career
He was lead trombonist with Clark Terry"s Big Band, and played bass trombone and tuba with Doc Severinsen"s Band between 1968 and 1970. He joined Blood, Sweat, and Tears in 1970, after Jerry Hyman departed, and first appeared on the album Blood, Sweat & Tears 4. With this group he recorded the jazz-rock solo on the tuba in "And When I Die/One room country shack" on the album Live and Improvised (1975).
His recording credits with Bachelor of Science&T include eleven albums.
After leaving Bachelor of Science&T, Dave became a freelance recording and jazz artist. Based in New York City, he has recorded with Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Mick Jagger, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, David Sanborn, Carla Bley and Pat Metheny.
He also records and tours with "Tuba Tuba", a jazz tuba band in which he plays with Michel Godard, Luciano Biondini, and Kenwood Dennard. "Tuba Tuba" tours Europe and performs at various jazz festivals and master classes.
Bargeron has released several CDs, both as a soloist and in collaboration with others
He now lives in New York and has four children. Bargeron often plays a King 3B with a sterling silver bell and uses a Besson EEb tuba. Examples of his work can be heard on the Bachelor of Science&T songs "Go Down Gambling", "Redemption," "Snow Queen," and "Number Show."
He is often compared to trombonist James Pankow of Chicago and Jim Pugh of the Woody Herman band.