Jimmy Bertrand
Jimmy Bertrand ( born February 24, 1900 in Biloxi, Mississippi; † August 1960 ) was an American jazz and blues drummer.
Bertrand grew up in a musical environment on in Mississippi; a cousin is the drummer Andrew Hilaire. In 1913 he moved to Chicago, where he played from 1918 in the band of Erskine Tate, which occurred in the Vendome Theatre. During the 1920s Bertrand had his own band, Jimmy Bertrand 's Washboard Wizards. He also played with Tiny Parham (1926 ) and recorded with such well-known musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Blythe ( 1926-31 ), Johnny Dodds ( 1926-28 ), Tampa Red, Ma Rainey, Freddie Keppard, Erskine Tate, Big Bill Broonzy and blind Blake. In the early 1930s he played in Parham, Lee Collins and Junie Cobb (1932 ), Eddie South ( 1931-33 ) and Ruben Reeves (1934 ). Although he still worked until 1945 with his own bands, he was most active as a music educator; his students included, inter alia, Wallace Bishop, Lionel Hampton, and Sid Catlett. In many recordings, he used a washboard; He also played xylophone. In the 1940s, Bertrand left the music scene and worked in meat packing plants. He probably died in August 1960.