Arthur Bernstein (February 4, 1909 – January 4, 1964)[1] was an American jazz double bassist.
However, by 1929 he had started playing bass, and began performing in clubs around New York City.
He performed with trumpeter Red Nichols, Red Norvo, Kay Thompson, Lou Bring, Ziggy Elman, The Boswell Sisters,[2] and others, and recorded with Ben Pollack, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, and many others in the 1930s.
[5] After leaving Goodman in the summer of 1941, Bernstein planned on heading to Los Angeles for work from New York.
Before heading out though, he learned that Teddy Wilson's bassist Israel Crosby was forced to leave the band for Chicago and be inducted into the army.