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Bernie Privin was an American jazz trombonist and arranger. He was born in New York City and began playing trombone at the age of 12. He attended the Juilliard School of Music and then joined the Navy during World War II. After the war, he joined the bands of Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, and Stan Kenton. He also worked as an arranger for many of the top jazz musicians of the time, including Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington. In the 1950s, Privin moved to Los Angeles and worked as a studio musician, playing on hundreds of television and film soundtracks. He also wrote arrangements for many of the top singers of the day, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole. Privin was a member of the American Federation of Musicians and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was also a member of the Los Angeles Jazz Society. He died in Los Angeles in 2008 at the age of 89.

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Occupation miscellaneous
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 12 February 1919
Birthday 12 February
Birthplace New York City
Date of death October 8, 1999
Died Place New York
Nationality United States

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His wife is Ethel Rubenstein (m. 1939)

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1974

He is known for his work on Monsanto Night Presents Benny Goodman (1974). He was married to Ethel Rubenstein.

1960

Privin played frequently in Europe from the 1960s onward; he played in Sweden multiple times in the 1960s, and was a member of the 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.

1939

In 1939, Privin married Ethel Rubenstein in New York. They had two daughters. One of Privin's paternal cousins was David Sarnoff, and another was Eugene Lyons.

1937

Privin was an autodidact on trumpet and played professionally while in his teens. 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. In 1938, he joined the orchestra of Artie Shaw, and then worked with Charlie Barnet, Mal Hallett, and Benny Goodman. He was drafted in 1943 and played from 1943 to 1946 with the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band in Europe. 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 and then CBS, the latter well into the 1960s. 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.

1919

Bernie Privin was born on February 12, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA as Bernard Privin.