Mike Bryan

A fine tempo guitarist who hardly ever soloed, Mike Bryan was a journeyman participant who by no means became that famous. He was self-taught on your guitar and was raised in Germantown, Tennessee. He performed careers in Memphis, in Chicago with Crimson Nichols and led his personal group in Greenwood, Mississippi during 1938-39. Bryan’s most well-known association was with Benny Goodman, 1st during 1940-41 and 1945-46 when he documented using the BG Sextet (which at that time included Crimson Norvo and Slam Stewart). After departing BG the very first time, Bryan used Bob Chester, Jan Savitt and Artie Shaw briefly and before spending a lot of 1942-44 within the Military. He documented in Clyde Hart’s octet in early-1945, a onetime just group also including Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Through the past due 1940’s on, Bryan was mainly a studio room musician in California. In 1962 he led an all-star group (including Doc Severinsen and Georgie Auld) which was filmed within a Goodyear Car tire jazz tv series as well as the music group toured European countries; the ensuing soundtrack record was his just recording being a head. In any other case Mike Bryan went a car company in L.A., down the road got a music shop and followed Martha Raye throughout a tour of Vietnam.