He was the brother of Barney Bigard and a cousin of Natty Dominique and A.J.
Piron, and was involved for decades with the New Orleans jazz scene.
He played with the Excelsior Brass Band and Maple Leaf Orchestra, as well as with Peter DuConge, Buddy Petit, and Chris Kelly in the late 1910s and early 1920s.
He was a member of Sidney Desvigne's band in 1925, and soon after that with Kid Shots Madison; he worked with John Robichaux for much of the 1930s.
During the Dixieland revival period of the 1960s, he was a regular at Preservation Hall, and performed or recorded with Harold Dejan, Kid Howard, Punch Miller, De De Pierce, Billie Pierce.