Bernie Privin

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Bernard "Bernie" Privin (* 12. February 1919 in Brooklyn , New York City , † 8. October 1999 in White Plains (New York) ) was an American jazz - trumpet and flugelhorn player of Swing .

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Bernie Privin was self-taught , first learning the mellophone and switching to the trumpet after listening to Louis Armstrong when he was thirteen . As a teenager he began to appear in clubs, eventually playing in the bands of Harry Reser (1937), Bunny Berigan and Tommy Dorsey (1938). In the late 30s he played with Buddy Rich at the Picadilly Hotel . In 1940 he was a musician on the Broadway show Kiss Me Kate . He became better known as a soloist in the orchestras of Artie Shaw (1938/39), Mal Hallett , Benny Goodman (1941/42) and Charlie Barnet (1940/41 and 1943) as well as with Jerry Wald . During his military service he was a member of the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band . He came to Europe with the Glenn Miller Band in 1944, and at the end of January 1945 he took part in sessions by Peanuts Hucko , Mel Powell and Ray McKinley with Django Reinhardt in Paris . After the war he returned to the Goodman band for two years; In 1940 he began to work as a studio musician in New York, first from 1948 for Perry Como , from 1950 in the studios of the CBS , where he worked for the next three decades. He recorded with Sy Oliver (1949-51), Louis Armstrong / Billie Holiday , Neal Hefti / Charlie Parker (as a soloist in "Temptation", 1952), Al Caiola and Mel Powell, worked with Jerry Gray and left on tour with the Tommy Dorsey Ghost Band .

In 1974 Privin went on a European tour with the all-star band Kings of Jazz , a. a. with Pee Wee Erwin and Johnny Mince , the following year with the New York Jazz Repertory Company . He then briefly replaced Billy Butterfield in The World's Greatest Jazz Band . In the course of his career he had only two opportunities to record under his own name, an album for Regent (1956) with a quintet, which also included Al Cohn , and for the Swedish label HMT in 1969. Parkinson's disease began his career The End.

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SURNAME Privin, Bernie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Privin, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player of swing
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1999
Place of death White Plains (New York)