Clyde Lombardi

Clyde Lombardi was a sophisticated yet flexible bassist who was simply quite dear in the jazz globe of the ’40s and ’50s. Lombardi acquired extensive classical schooling but was a jazz musician by enough time he was 20. He performed regularly with Crimson Norvo from 1942-1945, Joe Marsala, the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra in 1945, and both big rings and combos going by Benny Goodman during 1945-1946 and his bebop fling of 1948-1949. Lombardi performed and documented with Charlie Ventura in 1946, Lennie Tristano, Wardell Grey, Stan Getz, Al Haig, Zoot Sims, Eddie Bert, Tal Farlow in 1953, and George Wallington, amongst others. Lombardi, who didn’t have a chance to business lead any albums of his very own, largely still left jazz by 1959 and proved helpful for CBS being a studio room musician, although he re-emerged in jazz every once in awhile. In 1975 he documented with tenorman Tony Graye.