As a teenager, he travelled to Paris with a small jazz group to back up expatriate singer Josephine Baker.

Harry graduated from the Institute of Musical Art (later renamed Juilliard School), and freelanced on numerous radio programmes in the 1930s with the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw.

He played with Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan and Red Nichols (who had in his employ a future cartoon sound genius named Treg Brown).

Among his discoveries while recording in France (to get around Jimmy Petrillo's union) was singer Robert Clary,[1] who later co-starred on Hogan's Heroes.

Bluestone spent the rest of his life setting up various music publishing houses, writing and getting out his baton or violin, as a heavily in-demand "first chair," to work on hundreds of albums by a wide variety of artists, including the Beach Boys, Peggy Lee, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Stevie Wonder.