Betty Glamann
Betty Glamann Voorhees (May 21, 1923 – September 3, 1990) was an American jazz harpist. She was born in Wellington, Kansas.
Glamann learned to play harp at the age of ten. She attended a conservatory and was the harpist for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for three years. She played with Spike Jones in 1948, founded the Smith-Glamann Quintet in 1955, played with Duke Ellington and Marian McPartland around 1955 and then with Oscar Pettiford during 1957-58. With Kenny Dorham's band she recorded the album Jazz Contrasts in 1957. In 1958 she was involved in a Michel Legrand recording session with John Coltrane and Miles Davis; she played with Eddie Costa in 1958 and with the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1960. She recorded one album under her own name, Swinging on a Harp.
Discography
As leader
- Betty Glamann: Swinging on a Harp (Mercury, 1957)
As sidewoman
- Smith-Glamann Quintet Poinciana (Bethlehem, 1955)
- Duke Ellington: A Drum Is a Woman (Columbia, 1956)
- Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts (Prestige/OJC, 1957)
- Oscar Pettiford: Deep Passion (1957)
- Oscar Pettiford: The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
- Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz (Philips, 1958)
- Bill Evans & Eddie Costa: Complete Quartet Recordings (Lone Hill Jazz, 1958)
- Modern Jazz Quartet: MJQ 40 (Atlantic, 1952–88)
- Modern Jazz Quartet: Third Stream Music (1960)
- Sonny Rollins: Sonny's Time (1962)
- Johnny Lytle People & Love (Milestone, 1972)