LC control no. | n 85133137 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bernhardt, Clyde E. B. |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 19050711 |
Death date | 19860520 |
Place of birth | Gold Hill (Placer County, Calif.) |
Place of death | Newark (N.J.) |
Affiliation | King Oliver's Jazz Band Blue Blazers Band Harlem Blues & Jazz Band Whitman Sisters in Harlem Vernon Andrade's dance orchestra Joe Garland's dance orchestra |
Profession or occupation | Jazz musicians Trombonists Jazz singers Rhythm and blues musicians |
Found in | His I remember, 1985: CIP t.p. (by jazz trombonist and blues singer Clyde E.B. Bernhardt) African American National Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bernhardt, Clyde Edric; Clyde Edric Barron Bernhardt; Ed Barron; jazz musician, trombonist, jazz singer, rhythm and blues musician / singer; born 11 July 1905 in Gold Hill, California, United States; in 1928 joined the Whitman Sisters in Harlem; actively played and sang in ensembles, including King Oliver's band, Marion Hardy's Alabamians (1931) and Billy Fowler's band (1932-1933); became a member of Vernon Andrade's dance orchestra (1934 to 1937); joinedthe orchestra of pianist Luis Russell as singer at the Apollo Theater in Harlem (1944); led the Blue Blazers (1946-1948); played in Joe Garland's dance orchestra (1952-1970); led the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band(1972-1979); joined Barry Martyn's Legends of Jazz (1979); died May 20, 1986 in Newark, New jersey, United States) |