Bernard Hulin

Bernard Hulin (* 1926 ; † 1981 ) was a French jazz trumpeter and entertainment musician , who was also active as Jack Melrose .

Hulin worked in Paris in the mid-1940s in Tony Proteau's orchestra , with whom the first recordings for the Blue Star label were made. At the beginning of 1950 he recorded several titles under his own name for the Swing label ; his band included George Kennedy (tenor saxophone), Raymond Le Sénéchal (piano), Pierre Michelot (bass) and Pierre Lamarchand (drums). In the early 1950s he played with Raph Schecroun (alias Errol Parker ), Hubert Fol , Django Reinhardt (1951), Sidney Bechet , Géo Daly andCharlie Singleton (1955), with Bernard Zacharias , Martial Solal , Michel Attenoux , Claude Bolling , Kenny Clarke , François Vermeille , Christian Garros , Jack Dieval and Guy Lafitte in the late 1950s . He also played in the formation Five Cats (with Claude Gousset , Gérard Badini , Georges Arvanitas , Charlie Blareau , Dave Pochonet ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 44 recording sessions between 1946 and 1961, most recently with Sacha Distel . In 1959 he made an appearance as a musician in Jean-Pierre Melville's feature film Deux hommes dans Manhattan . Under the pseudonym Jack Melrose , he presented several LPs of light music such as Surprise Party du bonheur .

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