Bernie Privin

A technically skilled trumpeter and an underrated trumpeter, Bernie Privin spent most of his career working in the studios, emphasizing his skills as a lead and section trumpeter. Self-taught, Privin was still a teenager when he played in the bands of Harry Reser (1937), Bunny Berigan and Tommy Dorsey (1938). He gained some recognition for his work with the orchestras of Artie Shaw (1938-39), ...more