Milt Bernhart
Milt Bernhart | |
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Background information | |
Born | Valparaiso, Indiana, U.S. |
May 25, 1926
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Glendale, California, U.S. |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Trombone |
Associated acts |
Milt Bernhart (May 25, 1926 – January 22, 2004) was a West Coast jazz trombonist who worked with Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra, and others. He supplied the exciting solo heard in the middle of Sinatra's popular 1956 recording of I've Got You Under My Skin, conducted by Nelson Riddle.[1]
Biography
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 he worked, off and on, with Stan Kenton 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.[2]
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 faced at a segregated club in Las Vegas. He even alleges that he quit because Goodman publicly humiliated Gray in front of an audience.[3]
Bernhart died of congestive heart failure in Glendale, California at the age of 77.[4]
Discography
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- With Chet Baker and Bud Shank
- Theme Music from "The James Dean Story" (World Pacific, 1956)
- With Elmer Bernstein
- The Man with the Golden Arm (Decca, 1956)
- With Maynard Ferguson
- Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson (EmArcy, 1954)
- Dimensions (EmArcy, 1955)
- Maynard Ferguson Octet (EmArcy, 1955)
- With Johnny Mandel
- I Want to Live (United Artists, 1958)
- With the Henri René Orchestra
- RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt (RCA, 1953)
- That Bad Eartha (EP) (RCA, 1954)
- Down To Eartha (RCA, 1955)
- That Bad Eartha (LP) (RCA, 1956)
- Thursday's Child (RCA, 1957)
- With Lalo Schifrin
- The Cincinnati Kid (soundtrack) (MGM, 1965)
- More Mission: Impossible (Paramount, 1968)
- Mannix (Paramount, 1968)
- Bullitt (soundtrack) (Warner Bros., 1968)
- Rock Requiem (Verve, 1971)
References
External links
- Milt Bernhart at AllMusic
- Milt Bernhart discography at Discogs
- Milt Bernhart at the Internet Movie Database
- Milt Bernhart at Find a Grave
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- American jazz trombonists
- Cool jazz trombonists
- West Coast jazz trombonists
- Jazz musicians from California
- Musicians from Los Angeles, California
- 1926 births
- 2004 deaths
- People from Glendale, California
- 20th-century American musicians