{{Short description|American jazz double bassist (1922–after 1975)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Clyde Lombardi | image = Clyde Lombardi.jpg | alt = | caption = Clyde Lombardi, ca. 1947 | birth_name = Claudio Lombardi | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=y|1922|2|18}} | birth_place = New York, U.S. | death_date = after 1975 | death_place = New York, U.S. | genre = [[Jazz]] | occupation = Musician | instruments = Double bass | years_active = | label = }}

'''Claudio "Clyde" Lombardi''' (February 18, 1922&nbsp;– after 1975)<ref name=curry/> was an American [[jazz]] [[double bass]]ist.

After receiving classical training, Lombardi first performed and recorded with [[Red Norvo]] (1942–5) in a band which also included with [[Aaron Sachs]], [[Specs Powell]], [[Shorty Rogers]] and [[Eddie Bert]],<ref name=jack>{{cite book|last=Jack |first=Gordon |date=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ULyTrWtqM-8C |title=Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ULyTrWtqM-8C&pg=PA33 33] |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-4997-6}}</ref> and then on another recording with [[Joe Marsala]] (1945).

In 1945, he joined [[Benny Goodman]]'s big bands and small groups. After working with [[Charlie Ventura]] (1946) and [[Boyd Raeburn]] (1947), he returned to Goodman in June 1948 until June 1949.<ref name=curry/>

At around that time, Lombardi also recorded with [[Lennie Tristano]]'s trio with [[Billy Bauer]] (1946–47),<ref>{{cite book|last=Schuller |first=Gunther |date=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zc4Lh9KC2MIC |title=The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zc4Lh9KC2MIC&pg=PA841 841] |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-507140-5}}</ref> [[Wardell Gray]], [[Stan Getz]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Churchill |first=Nicholas |date=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r_NWBAAAQBAJ |title=Stan Getz: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography, with Song and Session Information for Albums |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_NWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 122] |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-1949-4}}</ref> and [[Al Haig]] (all 1948).<ref name=curry/>

In the late 1940s, he also played in [[Barbara Carroll]]'s trio with [[Chuck Wayne]] at New York's Downbeat Club.<ref name=feather/>

After leaving Goodman's band, Lombardi appeared on television in September 1951 as a member of Red Norvo's trio (substituting [[Charles Mingus]], the trio's regular double bass player, who did not yet have a local musicians’ union card).<ref name=curry/>

In the 1950s, he recorded with [[Zoot Sims]] (1951), [[Mel Tormé]] (1951),<ref>{{cite book|last=Hulme |first=George |date=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZCG4zlFpqMC |title=Mel Torme: A Chronicle of His Recordings, Books and Films |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=PZCG4zlFpqMC&pg=PA34 34] |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-3743-6}}</ref> with [[Eddie Bert]]'s band (1952–3, 1955), featuring [[Sal Salvador]], [[Harry Bliss]] and [[Frank Isola]]<ref name=jack/> as well as with [[Tal Farlow]] and [[George Wallington]].<ref name=curry>Curry, John. [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/browse?page=128&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&subSite=grovemusic&t=music_Topics%3A42&t0=music_Eras%3A9 "Lombardi, Clyde."] ''Grove Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 30 November 2022.</ref>

Around this time (early 1950s) he also gave tuition to [[Bucky Calabrese]].<ref name=feather>{{cite book | last=Feather | first=Leonard | last2=Gitler | first2=Ira | title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz | publication-place=New York | date=2007 | isbn=978-0-19-988640-1 | oclc=1252916779}}</ref>

==See also== * [[List of jazz bassists]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

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