ArtistInfo

Clyde Bernhardt

tb, cl, voc, 1905-1986 US
Singer / Musician of Jazz
A.k.a. Clyde Edric Barren Bernhardt Ed Barron

Clyde E.B. Bernhardt (July 11, 1905, Gold Hill, North Carolina - May 20, 1986, Newark, New Jersey) was an American jazz trombonist.Bernhardt was born in North Carolina and raised there and in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He started playing trombone at age 17, and in the 1920s played with a variety of lesser-known ensembles, such as Bill Eady's Ellwood Syncopators, Tillie Vennie, Odie Cromwell's Wolverine Syncopators, Charlie Grear's Original Midnite Ramblers, the Richard Cheatham Orchestra, the Whitman Sisters, Honey Brown's Orchestra, Henry P. McClane's Society Orchestra and Ray Parker. He worked with King Oliver in 1931, and through the middle of the decade did stints with Alex Hill, The Alabamians, Billy Fowler, Ira Coffey's Walkathonians, and Vernon Andrade.

Instruments

• Trombone
• Clarinet
• Vocals

Genres

• Jazz
• Blues
• Pop

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