Bernie Privin

autodidact on trumpet, and played professionally while in his teens.^[2] When he was 13, he bought a trumpet the day after he heard Louis Armstrong perform. He became a member of Harry Reser's band in 1937, and in the same year also worked with Bunny Berigan and Tommy Dorsey.^[2] In 1938, he joined the orchestra of Artie Shaw, and then worked with Charlie Barnet, Mal Hallett, and Benny Goodman.^[2] He was drafted in 1943 and played from 1943 to 1946 with the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band in Europe.^[2] After returning to the United States, he worked with Goodman once more, then became a staff musician for radio and television; he worked with NBC for two years and then CBS, the latter well into the 1960s.^[2] Concomitantly he played as a session musician, especially with Goodman throughout the 1950s, as well as for musicians such as Sy Oliver and Al Caiola.^[1]

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, under the direction of Warren Covington and Pee Wee Erwin, for tours of Europe in the mid-1970s. He was a member of the New York Jazz Repertory Company when it toured the Soviet Union in 1975.^[1]