Bernie Glow

Bernie Glow ( born February 6, 1926 in New York; † May 8, 1982 ) was an American jazz trumpeter of swing and modern jazz.

Life and work

Glow began nine years playing the trumpet, studied with Max Schlossberg, who played for the New York Philharmonic. Under the influence of Russian Glows grandfather Sam Finkel Glow soon became one of the first trumpet player in a regular orchestra. During his high school years, Bernie Glow played with future jazz greats like Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers and George Wallington. Glow was during this time influenced by the recordings Snooky Young with Jimmy Lunceford band and Billy Butterfield in Benny Goodman's band.

After the High School of the sixteen year old Glow toured a year with the Richard Himber Orchestra. He then worked at Xavier Cugat and then with Raymond Scott on the CBS radio station. 1945/46, he played lead trumpet in Artie Shaw's band, then with Boyd Raeburn. The year 1949, he was with Woody Herman's Second Herd on tour.

In the early 1950s Glow played in big bands, Latin bands and dance orchestras, appeared in Manhattan in theaters, dance halls, nightclubs and on the radio. Since 1953 Glow was a much sought-after trumpet player for countless commercial and jazz recording sessions. He used it a broad musical spectrum; one day he played for a radio advertisement of Pepsi, the next he recorded an album with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Many of these big band studio sessions were led by composers and arrangers such as Nelson Riddle, Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson. Miles Davis and Gil Evans involved him in the recording of Miles Ahead (1957 ), Porgy and Bess (1958), Sketches of Spain (1959) and Quiet Nights (1962). Glow was also a member of the NBC and CBS Orchestra.

Links / sources

• Bernie Glow. on: vervemusicgroup.com
• Bernie Glow. In: New York. December 10, 1969.
• Bernie Glow, 56, Trumpeter On the Stage, Radio and TV. In: New York Times. 10. May 1982.

• Jazz trumpeter
• American musician
• Born in 1926
• Died in 1982
• Man