Edward Joseph Bertolatus (May 16, 1922 – September 27, 2012), better known as Eddie Bert, was an American bebop jazz trombonist. Eddie was old school—like Jack Teagarden, Miff Mole, “Tricky Sam” Nanton and Benny Morten.
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Description: Trombonist, USA
Known For: He has performed continually with top bands including Stan Kenton , Benny Goodman
Instruments: Trombone
Music Styles: Jazz, Swing Bebop, Hard Bop, Avant-garde jazz, Post-bop, Big Band Jazz, orchestral jazz, Free Jazz
Location: NY, United States of America
Date Born: 16th May 1922
Location Born: Yonkers, New York, United States of America
Date Died: 28th September 2012
Location Died: New York, New York, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Eddie Bert
An American legendary bebop jazz trombonist.
His first job as a musician came in 1940 when he joined the Sam Donahue Orchestra, and then joined up with Red Norvo in 1941.
He has performed continually with top bands including Stan Kenton , Benny Goodman’, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Tito Puente, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Illinois Jacquet, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Woody Herman, Charlie Barnett and more.
He is on hundreds of recordings. He also recorded extensively as a leader on various labels, including Savoy Records, Blue Note Trans-World, Jazztone, and Discovery Records.
Eddie’s list of record dates is lengthy. From 1942 onward, he recorded relentlessly with virtually every major band and group. He’s with Red Norvo at the famed Town Hall Concert of 1945 recorded live by Commodore Records. That’s Eddie’s trombone solo on Stan Kenton’s How High the Moon with June Christy in 1947.
In 1955, Eddie recorded one of the earliest overdub sessions on his Musician of the Year album featuring Hank Jones and Kenny Clarke. His Hambone solo from Trombone Scene (1956) still stuns. And his section work on Mulligan Stew from Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (1958) blows the roof off.
Eddie’s also on The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall date in 1959 and Buddy Rich’s now-rare Richcraft from the same year. In 1969 and 1970, Eddie’s in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band for Central Park North and Consummation. There’s even a great photo of Charlie Parker with his arm around Eddie in 1950. Bird knew.
Eddie was old school—like Jack Teagarden, Miff Mole, “Tricky Sam” Nanton and Benny Morten. Every note had to be strong and clear to stand out, and Eddie’s exciting, high-energy solos set new standards for blowing.
Eddie Bert passed away in 2012.Aged 90.
Further information can be obtained at the web sites listed on the Links button above
WORKS
Discography.
Eddie Bert is on hundreds of albums.
Red Norvo: Nuances By Norvo (Hep Records, 1938–42)
Stan Kenton: 1947 (Classics)
Chico O´Farrill: Cuban Blues: The Chico O´Farrill Sessions (Verve, 1950–54)
Charles Mingus: Mingus at the Bohemia (Debut, 1955)
Charles Mingus: The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (Debut, OJC, 1955)
Frank Socolow: Sounds by Socolow (Bethlehem, 1956)
Metronome All-Stars 1956: Verve MGV 8030
J. J. Johnson: Jay And Kai + 6/J J in Person (Collectables, 1956–58)
Chris Connor: Sings The George Gershwin Almanac Of Song (Atlantic, 1957) with Al Cohn, Herbie Mann, Milt Jackson, Milt Hinton, Oscar Pettiford, Hank Jones, Osie Johnson
Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz (Philips, 1958)
Thelonious Monk: At Town Hall ( OJC, 1959)
Charles Mingus: Pre Bird (Mercury/Verve, 1960)
Nat Pierce: The Ballad Of Jazz Street (Hep 1969)
Kenny Burrell: Bluesin’ Around (Columbia, 1962 [1983])
Charles Mingus: The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note, 1962)
Thelonious Monk: Big Band and Quartet in Concert (Columbia, 1963)
Stan Getz: Mickey One (Verve, 1965) with the Eddie Sauter Orchestra
Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1972)
Eddie Bert: Walk on the Roots (Mothlight, 1985-’89)
Gene Harris: Live at Town Hall (Concord, 1989)
Loren Schoenberg: Out of this World (TBC 1997)
Larry Gillespie and the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra: Contour (Blue Lion Music, 1998)
Ken Peplowski: The Last Swing of the Century (Concord, 1998)
Bands and Orchestras.
T.S. Monk 1997-2000
Bobby Short 1997-2001
Duke Ellington Orchestra 1996
George Gee 1991-2001
Loren Shoenberg Orchestra 1986-2001
Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians 1997
Rich Szabo Jazz Orchestra 1996-1998
Tony Corpiscello 1995-1996
Illinois Jacquet’s Big Band 1994-1995
Illinois Jacquet’s Big Band 1984-1986
Walt Levinsky’s Great American Swing Orchestra 1987-1995
John Lewis’ The American Jazz Orchestra 1986-1992
Galt MacDermott’s New Pulse Jazz Band 1984-1986
Lionel Hampton 1976-1980
New York Jazz Repertory Company 1973-1978
Toured Europe and Russia 1975-1976
performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall –
Thad Jones – Mel Lewis Orchestra 1968-1972
Bobby Rosengarden’s Orchestra – Dick Cavett TV Show 1968-1972
Thelonious Monk 1959
Thelonious Monk 1964
Thelonious Monk 1981
Elliot Lawrence 1958-1968
Charles Mingus 1955-1974
Illinois Jacquet’s Septet at Birdland 1960
Illinois Jacquet’s Big Band – NY Paramount 1952
Stan Kenton 1955
Stan Kenton 1950
Benny Goodman’s Orchestra 1958-1986
BG – Let’s Dance Concert for Public TV 1986
BG – Swing into Spring Concert for TV 1964
BG – Waldorf Astoria Hotel – Empire Room 1959
BG – Newport Jazz Festival 1958
BG – Be-Bop Orchestra 1948-1949
Stan Kenton’s Progressive Jazz Orchestra 1947-1948
Sam Donahue 1946
Bill Finegan’s Army Orchestra 1944-1945
Charlie Barnett 1943
Woody Herman 1943
Red Norvo 1941-1943
Sam Donahue 1940
Jazz Festivals, Awards, and Specific Concerts.
Inducted into Rugers University Jazz Hall of Fame
Eddie Bert Honored at Jazz at the Kennedy Center with Billy Taylor May 6th 2002
Eddie Bert. Honored at Town Hall NYC May 16th 2002
Eddie Bert Hawaiian Jazz Festival July 18th – 22nd, 2001
Eddie Bert Zurich Switzerland June 27th – July 1st 2001
Monk Tentet Allstars Tour of Europe July, 2000
Monk on Monk . May 29, 2000
Bobby Short Café Carlyle May-June, 2000
Ken Peplowski Tour of Japan November, 1998
Monk Tentet Allstars Tour of Europe March 9-March 29, 1998
Bobby Short at the Café Carlyle May 6-June 28, 1998
Bobby Short at the Café Carlyle December 2-December 31, 1997
Monk on Monk Tour of Europe and USA July 11-November 2, 1997
Duke Ellington Orchestra Tour of France October 11-October 27, 1996
Soloist with Ralph Balze Trio Tivoli Terrace, Laguna Beach California (Arts Festival) July 31-August 12, 1996
“Blowing Up a Storm” Concert Longbeach and Catalina Island California May 22-May 26, 1996
Tour of Spain Tour of Spain November 13-November 24, 1995
Illinois Jacquet Orchestra Jazz cruise aboard “The Norway” October 28-November 4, 1995
Soloist with Ralph Balze Trio Tivoli Terrace, Laguna Beach California (Arts Festival) July 26-August 12, 1995
West Cost Jazz” Hilton Hotel Redondo Beach California October 27-October 30, 1994
Illinois Jacquet Orchestra “50 Years of Jazz at the Philharmonic” Carnegie Hall, NYC September 27, 1994
Soloist with Ralph Balze Trio Tivoli Terrace, Laguna Beach California (Arts Festival) July 25-August 6, 1994
Featured Soloist “76 Trombone Plus Four” University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada November 14, 1993
Guest Soloist Yardbird Suite Edmonton, Alberta, Canada October 16-18, 1992
“Tribute to Thelonious Monk” Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn, NY April 4, 1992
“Memories of Benny”- Walt Levinsky’s Orchestra Japanese High Definition T.V. January 31, 1992
Stan Kenton’s 50th Anniversary “Back to Balboa” concert in Balboa California May 30-June2, 1991
Mingus “Epitath” Gunther Schuller – Conductor European Tour October 20-November 10, 1991
Mingus “Epitath” Gunther Schuller – Conductor Tanglewood – Chicago Jazz Festival 1990
Mingus “Epitath” Gunther Schuller – Conductor Avery Fisher Hall NYC (recorded) June 3, 1989
Honored by the New York Brass Conference Hotel Roosevelt, NYC April 1990
Listed in Marquis’ “Who’s Who in Entertainment” 1989/1990 Edition
Gene Harris – Philip Morris Superband Tour of Five Continents September-December 1989
Walt Levinsky’s Great American Swing Band Tour of Japan (specifically Yokohama) 1989
Walt Levinsky’s Great American Swing Band Tour of Japan 1988
Guest Conductor and Soloist Venezuela Jazz Festival Caracas, Venezuela 1987
Tour of Italy Tour of Italy October 1987
Tour of Holland Tour of Holland June 1987
Echoes de Be-Bop Tour of Spain November 1986
Kool Jazz Festival Carnegie Hall 1984
Kool Jazz Festival Carnegie Hall 1983
Orlando Jazz Festival Orlando Florida August 1982
Kool Jazz Festival Carnegie Hall 1982
Dick Gibbson’s Jazz Party Denver Colorado 1981
Kool Jazz Festival Carnegie Hall 1981
Orlando Jazz Festival Orlando Florida October 1981
Kool Jazz Festival Carnegie Hall 1980
Dick Gibbson’s Jazz Party Denver Colorado 1979
Music of Louis Armstrong” State Department Tour of USSR 1975
Guest Conductor and Soloist Venezuela Jazz Festival Caracas, Venezuela 1964
Guest Conductor and Soloist Venezuela Jazz Festival Caracas, Venezuela 1957
Musician of the Year Metronome Magazine 1955
Grammy Award for Musician of the Year 1955
Broadway Shows.
Uptown It’s Hot 1986
Human Comedy 1984-1985
Ain’t Misbehavin’ 1978-1982
Pippin 1972-1977
Golden Rainbow 1968
Apple Tree 1965
Golden Boy 1964
Here’s Love 1963
How to Succeed in Business 1961
Bye Bye Birdie 1960
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