Milt Bernhart
b. 25 May 1926, Valparaiso, IN
d. 22 January 2004, age 77, Glendale, CA
Trombonist Milt Bernhart, a treasured icon of West Coast jazz, died of multiple organ failure on January 22, 2004 in Glendale, California. He was 77 years old.
b. 25 May 1926, Valparaiso, IN
d. 22 January 2004, age 77, Glendale, CA
Trombonist Milt Bernhart, a treasured icon of West Coast jazz, died of multiple organ failure on January 22, 2004 in Glendale, California. He was 77 years old.
Bernhart was as good-natured a man as jazz ever produced, self-deprecating and always able to see the humor in a situation. He began playing the tuba at ten but had switched to trombone by high school. Having shuffled through Chicago and Philly, he was hired for Boyd Raeburn
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