| Bernard Privin | |||||||
| Birth Date: | 12 February 1919 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | New York City | ||||||
| Death Place: | New York | ||||||
| Resting Place: | Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, New York, United States | ||||||
| Citizenship: | American | ||||||
| Occupation: | Trumpeter | ||||||
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| Children: | 2 | ||||||
| Relatives: | Eugene Lyons, David Sarnoff, Richard Baer, Bruce J. Oreck | ||||||
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Bernard Privin (February 12, 1919 – October 8, 1999)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter.
Privin was born in New York City, United States.[2] His father, Alter Privin, was a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe.
Privin was an 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]
Privin played frequently in Europe from the 1960s onward;[2] 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.[1]
He died in October 1999, in White Plains, New York, at the age of 80.[1]