Glen Gray
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Glen Gray Knoblauch[1] better known as Glen Gray (June 7, 1900[2], – August 23, 1963, Plymouth, Massachusetts) was a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.
Gray was born to Lurdie P. and Agnes (Gray) Knoblauch in Roanoke, Illinois. His father was a lifelong railroad worker who died when Glen was ten years of age.[3] When he was 13 years old, Gray organized a group known as Spike's Jazz Band. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University but left to work for the Santa Fe Railroad.
His Orange Blossoms Band was renamed as the Casa Loma Orchestra in 1927. He collaborated with the jazz musician Jean Goldkette and with trumpeter/arranger Salvador Camarata. Ill health forced Glen to retire from touring in 1950. In 1956 he went back into the studio to record some LPs which recreated the sounds of the big band era.
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- ^ The Mississippi Rag,Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, George A. Borgman, October 2006, page 1
- ^ The Mississippi Rag,Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, George A. Borgman, October 2006, page 1
- ^ The Mississippi Rag,Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, George A. Borgman, October 2006, page 1
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