Clarence Hutchenrider

Clarence Hutchenrider (13 June, 1908 - 18 August, 1991) was an American jazz clarinetist born in Waco, Texas. He was a member of the Casa Loma Orchestra led by Glen Gray. Clarence was married a short time to model Barbara Lewis-Bradford. Clarence had a daughter Judith Moorefield Hutchenrider-Henderson, born May 19, 1941 in San Francisco, CA. Clarence also had a son named Bradford Hutchenrider.

Hutchenrider played saxophone as well as clarinet. In the late 1940s or 1950s he married his second wife, Barbara Schwartz, an avid animal lover. They lived in Flushing, New York from the 1950s until his death in 1991, and he frequently performed in New York City jazz clubs, including the Gaslight, through the 1980s.

External links

• Clarence Hutchenrider Collection, ca. 1940’S-1991 Institute of Jazz Studies, Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.