Clay Burt

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Clayton "Clay" Burt (* around 1920) was an American jazz musician ( drums ) who also excelled as a theater musician.

Buck played in New York in the mid-1940s with Clyde Bernhardt and His Blue Blazers, with whom the first recordings for Sonora Records were made in 1946 ("Sweet Jam Jamm"). The following year he was in the studio with Bernhardt's band and Wynonie Harris for King Records . In 1950 he was a member of the orchestra of Hot Lips Page and took part in its recordings with singer Ollie Shepard for Columbia ("Crazy with the Blues"). In 1953 he played again with Clyde Bernhardt ("It's Been a Long Times Baby"); last recordings were made in 1976 with Sam Wooding ( Bicentennial Jazz Vistas ). In the field of jazz he was involved in five recording sessions between 1946 and 1976.

In 1980 he was in the Broadway musical Fourtune a member of a theater band that also included Lars Edegran , Kenny Davern , Dick Vance and John Buckingham , and which appeared as a New Orleans jazz band. In 1982 he starred on Broadway with Buckingham, Vance, Eddie Barefield and pianist Lillette Harris Jenkins as Rollicking New Orleans Blue Serenaders in the musical revue One Mo 'Time! .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clyde EB Bernhardt, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues . University of Pennsylvania Press 2015, p. 239
  2. ↑ The recordings were made as Red Barron and His Orchestra . See Clyde EB Bernhardt, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues . P. 241
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 9, 2017)
  4. ^ New York Magazine, Aug. 4, 1980, p. 13
  5. ↑ Ebony , November 1982, p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Burt, Clay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burt, Clayton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920