Len Barnard was a jazz musician, playing piano early in his career, then drums. In 1951 Len Barnard's Dixieland Jazz Band recorded the first Australian long-play album. Barnard was a long-standing member of the jazz group Galapagos Duck. [Source: John Shand, 'Len Barnard 1929-2005 - Jazz Drummer,' Jazz Australia, at http://www.jazz.org.au/]