Milt Bernhart (May 25, 1926 – January 22, 2004) was a
West Coast jazz
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trombonist who worked with
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though K ...
,
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular ...
, and others. He supplied the solo in the middle of Sinatra's 1956 recording of ''
I've Got You Under My Skin
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Bernhart (occasionally spelled Bernhardt) began on tuba, but switched to trombone in high school. At 16 he worked in Boyd Raeburn's band and later had some "gigs" with Teddy Powell. After time in the
United States Army
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he worked, off and on, with
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though K ...
for the next ten years. He is perhaps most associated with Kenton, but in 1955 he had his first album as a leader. In 1986 he was elected President of the Big Band Academy of America.
Although known as "mild-mannered" or humorous, his brief period with Benny Goodman was one area that brought out his ire. He indicated working with Goodman was "the bottom", except for basic training in the Army, of his first 23 years of life. He called Goodman a "bore" and claimed he did nothing about the treatment
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray (February 13, 1921 – May 25, 1955) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who straddled the swing and bebop periods.
Biography
Early years
Gray was born in Oklahoma City, the youngest of four children. He spent his early chil ...
faced at a segregated club in Las Vegas. He even alleges that he quit because Goodman publicly humiliated Gray in front of an audience.
Bernhart died of
congestive heart failure
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Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson
''Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson'' is an album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in early 1954 and released on the EmArcy label.Maynard Ferguson Octet
''Maynard Ferguson Octet'' is an album by Canadian jazz trumpeter/trombonist Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in 1955 and released on the EmArcy label.Dimensions
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'' (EmArcy, 1956)
* ''Around the Horn with Maynard Ferguson'' (Emarcy, 1956)
* ''Stratospheric'' (Mercury, 1976)
With
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though K ...
A Presentation of Progressive Jazz
''A Presentation of Progressive Jazz'' is a 1948 jazz album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton.
Background
The album features performances recorded in 1947 and originally released on the Capitol label as four 78rpm discs, reissued as a 10-inc ...
'' (Capitol, 1947)
* ''
Innovations in Modern Music
''Innovations in Modern Music'' is an album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton with his "Innovations" Orchestra featuring performances recorded in 1950 and originally released on the Capitol label.Vosbein, PStan Kenton Discographyaccessed Apri ...
'' (Capitol, 1950)
* ''
Stan Kenton's Milestones
''Stan Kenton's Milestones'' is an album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton compiling performances recorded between 1943 and 1947 and originally collected on the Capitol label as a 10-inch LP in 1950 then reissued as a 12-inch LP with additiona ...
'' (Capitol, 1950)
* ''
Stan Kenton Classics
''Stan Kenton Classics'' is an album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton compiling performances recorded between 1945 and 1947 and originally collected on the Capitol label as a 10-inch LP in 1950 then reissued as a 12-inch LP with additional t ...
'' (Capitol, 1952)
* ''
Popular Favorites by Stan Kenton
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The Kenton Era
''The Kenton Era'' is a compilation album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton featuring recordings from 1940 to 1954 which was originally released in two limited edition box sets, as fifteen 7 inch 45 rpm discs and four 12 inch LPs, on Capitol i ...
Artistry in Voices and Brass
''Artistry in Voices and Brass'' is an album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra revisiting their popular compositions with new lyrics composed by Milt Raskin and arranged by Pete Rugolo for an 18-member vocal chorus and trombone section recorded in 1963 ...
'' (Capitol, 1963)
* ''
The Innovations Orchestra
''The Innovations Orchestra'' is a compilation album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton's "Innovations" Orchestra featuring performances recorded in 1950 and 1951. The CD includes the albums '' Innovations in Modern Music'' and '' Stan Kenton ...
'' (Capitol, 1997)
With
Henri Rene
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People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.''
* Henri I de Montm ...
Shorty Rogers
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* ''Shorty Rogers and His Giants'' (RCA Victor, 1953)
* ''Collaboration'' (RCA Victor, 1955)
* ''The Big Shorty Rogers Express'' (RCA Victor, 1956)
* ''Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers'' (RCA Victor, 1957)
* ''Jazz Waltz'' (Reprise, 1962)
With
Pete Rugolo
Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American jazz composer, arranger and record producer.
Life and career
Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settle ...
* ''
Introducing Pete Rugolo
''Introducing Pete Rugolo'' is an album by bandleader, composer, arranger and conductor Pete Rugolo featuring performances recorded in 1954 and released on the Columbia label, initially as a 10-inch LP, then with an additional four tracks as a 12- ...
'' (Columbia, 1954)
* ''
Adventures in Rhythm
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'' (Columbia, 1954)
* ''
Rugolomania
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'' (Columbia, 1955)
* ''
New Sounds by Pete Rugolo
''New Sounds by Pete Rugolo'' is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Pete Rugolo, featuring performances recorded in 1954 and 1955 for Columbia Records and first released on the budget Harmony label in 1957.Minn, MMaynard Ferguson Disc ...
'' (Harmony, 1957)
* ''
Music for Hi-Fi Bugs
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Rugolo Plays Kenton
''Rugolo Plays Kenton'' (subtitled ''The Pete Rugolo Orchestra Plays Compositions Introduced by Stan Kenton'') is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Pete Rugolo featuring performances of tunes associated with Stan Kenton recorded in 1958 ...
Behind Brigitte Bardot
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Howard Rumsey
Howard Rumsey (November 7, 1917 – July 15, 2015) was an American jazz double-bassist known for his leadership of the Lighthouse All-Stars in the 1950s.
Biography
Born in Brawley, California, United States, Rumsey first began playing the piano ...
* ''Sunday Jazz a La Lighthouse Vol. 1'' (Contemporary, 1953)
* ''Sunday Jazz a La Lighthouse Vol. 2'' (Contemporary, 1953)
* ''Jazz Rolls Royce'' (Lighthouse, 1958)
With Lalo Schifrin
* ''
The Cincinnati Kid
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Bullitt
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'' (Warner Bros., 1968)
* ''
Rock Requiem
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'' (Verve, 1971)
With others
*
Van Alexander
Van Alexander (May 2, 1915 – July 19, 2015) was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer.
Early years
Van Alexander was born Alexander Van Vliet Feldman in Harlem. His mother was a classical pianist, and she taught him to play the piano. ...
, ''The Home of Happy Feet'' (Capitol, 1959)
* Chet Baker and
Bud Shank
Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and thro ...
, ''
Theme Music from "The James Dean Story"
''Theme Music from "The James Dean Story"'' is a 1956 soundtrack album to the James Dean biopic, '' The James Dean Story'' composed by Leith Stevens and featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Bud Shank.Elmer Bernstein, ''
The Man with the Golden Arm
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'' (Decca, 1956)
*
Harry Betts
Harry Betts (September 15 1922 – July 13 2012) was an American jazz trombonist.
Background
Born in New York and raised in Fresno, California, he was active as a jazz trombonist and played with Stan Kenton's orchestra in the 1950s. He can be hea ...
, ''The Jazz Soul of Doctor Kildare'' (Choreo, 1962)
*
Buddy Bregman
Louis Isidore "Buddy" Bregman (July 9, 1930 – January 8, 2017) was an American arranger and conductor.
Biography
Bregman was born in Chicago. His father was an executive in the steel industry. His uncle was songwriter Jule Styne. He spen ...
, ''
Swinging Kicks
''Swinging Kicks'' is a 1957 album by the jazz arranger Buddy Bregman. The album was released as ''I Love Listening to Buddy Bregman'' by HMV in the United Kingdom.
Reception
Scott Yanow reviewed the album for AllMusic and wrote that it was "B ...
'' (Verve, 1957)
* Les Brown, ''Les Brown's in Town'' (Decca, 1965)
*
Frank Capp
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Biography
...
, ''Percussion in a Tribute to Glenn Miller'' (Kimberly, 1963)
*
June Christy
June Christy (born Shirley Luster; November 20, 1925June 21, 1990) was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a sol ...
, ''June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days'' (Capitol, 1959)
* Rosemary Clooney, ''Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!'' (RCA Victor, 1960)
*
Pete Candoli
Pete Candoli (born Walter Joseph Candoli; June 28, 1923 – January 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and worked in the studios of the recording and television industries.
Ca ...
, ''Blues, When Your Lover Has Gone'' (Somerset/Stereo-Fidelity, 1961)
*
Bing Crosby
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, ''
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings
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''Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings'' was a stylistic departure for Crosby, marking the first time he re ...
'' (Verve, 1956)
*
Bobby Darin
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He started his career as a songwriter for Connie ...
, ''From Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie'' (Capitol, 1964)
* Bobby Darin, ''Venice Blue'' (Capitol, 1965)
*
Sammy Davis Jr.
Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director.
At age three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and the ...
, ''
It's All Over but the Swingin'
''It's All Over but the Swingin'' is a 1957 album by Sammy Davis Jr., arranged by Jack Pleis and Morty Stevens.
Track listing
# "Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 4:43
# "But Not for Me (song), But Not for Me" (Ge ...
'' (Decca, 1957)
*
Buddy DeFranco
Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist. In addition to his work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and ...
, ''Cross Country Suite'' (Dot, 1958)
*
Dean Elliott
William Lorenzo Bunt (May 11, 1917 – December 31, 1999), known professionally as Dean Elliott, was an American television and film composer.
Career
Elliott was born William Lorenzo Bunt on May 11, 1917 in Sioux City, Iowa to George Leroy Bunt ...
, ''College Confidential'' (Chancellor, 1960)
*
The Four Freshmen
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, ''Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones'' (Capitol, 1955)
*
Gilbert & Sullivan
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, ''The Coolest Mikado'' (Andex, 1961)
*
Astrud Gilberto
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Biography
Astrud Gilbe ...
Glen Gray
Glenn Gray Knoblauch (June 7, 1900 – August 23, 1963), known professionally as Glen Gray, was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.'' The Mississippi Rag'', "Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra," George A. B ...
Jonah Jones
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/Glen Gray, ''Jonah Jones Quartet/Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra'' (Capitol, 1962)
* Bob Keene, ''Bob Keene & His Orchestra'' (GNP, 1954)
* Bob Keene, ''Solo for Seven'' (Andex, 1958)
*
Carol Lawrence
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, ''This Heart of Mine'' (Choreo, 1962)
* Peggy Lee, ''In the Name of Love'' (Capitol, 1964)
*
Nellie Lutcher
Nellie Rose Lutcher (October 15, 1912 – June 8, 2007) was an American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who gained prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Lutcher was most recognizable for her diction and exaggerated pronunciation a ...
with Russell Garcia, ''Our New Nellie'' (Liberty, 1956)
*
Junior Mance
Julian Clifford Mance, Jr. (October 10, 1928 – January 17, 2021), known as Junior Mance, was an American jazz pianist and composer.
Biography Early life (1928–1947)
Mance was born in Evanston, Illinois. When he was five years old, Mance st ...
Henry Mancini
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''The Music from Peter Gunn'' (RCA Victor, 1959)
*
Johnny Mandel
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Skip Martin
Lloyd Vernon "Skip" Martin (May 14, 1916, in Robinson, Illinois – February 12, 1976, in Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and music arranger.
Background
Martin was active principally as an arranger for some ...
, ''8 Brass, 5 Sax, 4 Rhythm'' (MGM, 1959)
* Skip Martin, ''Scheherajazz'' (Pye, 1959)
* Billy May, ''Bill's Bag'' (Capitol, 1963)
* Billy May, ''Today!'' (Capitol, 1966)
* Lyle Murphy, ''New Orbits in Sound'' (GNP, 1958)
*
Vido Musso
Vido William Musso (January 16, 1913 – January 9, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist.
Biography
Musso moved with his family from Sicily to the U.S. in July 1920, having arrived at the Port of New York on the Italian steamship ''Patria''. T ...
, ''The Swingin'st'' (Modern, 1956)
*
Anita O'Day
Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band app ...
, ''Anita'' (Verve, 1956)
*
Ruth Olay
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, ''Olay! The New Sound of Ruth Olay'' (Mercury, 1959)
* Perez Prado, ''Havana, 3 A.M.'' (RCA/BMG 1990)
*
Frankie Randall
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, ''Sings & Swings'' (RCA Victor, 1965)
*
Buddy Rich
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Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York ...
, ''The Swinging Buddy Rich'' (Norgran, 1954)
*
Johnny Richards
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, ''Something Else by Johnny Richards'' (Bethlehem, 1956)
*
Tony Scott
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/Milt Bernhart, ''Untitled'' (RCA Victor, 1985)
* Tak Shindo, ''Brass and Bamboo'' (Capitol, 1960)
*
Frank Sinatra
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, ''Forever Frank'' (Capitol, 1966)
*
The Three Sounds
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The band formed in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States, as the Four Sounds. The original line-up consisted of Gene Harri ...
Bobby Troup
Robert William Troup Jr. (October 18, 1918 – February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. He wrote the song " Route 66" and acted in the role of Dr. Joe Early with his wife Julie London in the television prog ...
, ''Bobby Troup and His Stars of Jazz'' (RCA Victor, 1959)
*
Walter Wanderley
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, ''The Return of the Original'' (Ancora, 1972)
* Stanley Wilson, ''The Music from M Squad'' (RCA Victor, 1959)