Clarence Hutchenrider

Clarence Behrens Hutch Rider ( born June 13, 1908 in Waco, Texas; † August 18, 1991 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet ) of the swing.

Hutch Rider learned at age 13 and played clarinet in dance bands in Texas. He played 14 months in the band of Ross Gorman (1928 ), a short period in a band of drummer Merle Jacobs in Cleveland and then in the band of violinist Austin Wiley (1931 ), in which he replaced Artie Shaw and Pennsylvania and Ohio toured. 1931 to 1943 he was a member of the Casa Loma Orchestra Glen Gray. He played both saxophone and clarinet and was in the orchestra soloist, whose theme song Smoke Rings. After his time at Casa Loma, he was until 1946 when Jimmy Lytell in the ABC radio band, which he had to quit due to a lung disease. After that, he was a freelancer in New York, who also led his own bands ( so 1958-1965 Gaslight Club ). He played in the 1950s by Walter Davidson. 1966 to 1974 he played at Bill's Gay Nineties and he played with the New California Ramblers by Dick Sudhalter and the New Orleans Nighthawks Vince Giordano of.

Since the 1950s, he lived in Flushing ( New York) and still occurred in the 1980s regularly in New York clubs. From 1982 he was a member of the Gully Low Jazz Band by David Ostwald.

He was married twice and had a daughter from his first marriage.