Adam Glasser (musician)
Adam Glasser (born September 20, 1955 in Cambridge , England) is a South African musician living in Great Britain ( harmonica , jazz piano , composition ).
Live and act
Glasser, whose father is the composer Stanley Glasser , grew up temporarily in London and Johannesburg and met the jazz musicians Barney Rachabane , Mackay Davashe and Allen Kwela as a teenager at Dorkay House . He studied European literature at the University of Warwick and moved to Paris in 1979, where he worked as a bar pianist . In 1981 he spent a semester at Berklee College of Music and then worked as a musician in London. He led his own combo and performed regularly with Dudu Pukwana in the mid-1980s(who also added his composition “August One” to his repertoire) and has given concerts at festivals in Spain, Italy and Belgium. Since 1990 he has worked for sixteen years as the pianist and musical director of the (revived) South African vocal group The Manhattan Brothers , initially in 1990 at the celebration of the release of Nelson Mandela at Wembley Stadium , with which he also appeared with Joe Zawinul . He continued to tour with Martha Reeves (1991) and Jimmy Witherspoon (1993).
As a harmonica player, he took part in recordings of film scores by Christopher Young ( Hard Rain , 1997), Elliot Goldenthal ( The Good Thief , 2002) and Howard Shore , as well as in the theater production The Postman Always Rings Twice with music by Django Bates and other London theater productions . In 1999 he accompanied Stevie Wonder in public appearances. He performed as a soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall . As a studio musician he can be heard on albums by Dominic Miller ( Second Nature and Fourth Wall ), Zizi Possi ( Bossa ), Carl Orr ( Absolute Freedom feat. Billy Cobham ) and Zero 7 ( When It Falls ). He also went on tour with Incognito .
Prizes and awards
As a composer he won the Peter Whittingham Award in 1996 . In April 2010 his album Free at First received the South African SAMA Award for “best contemporary jazz album”.
Discographic notes
- Adam Glasser Quartet Live at the Space Theater (1997, with Pinise Saul , Elliot Ngubane and others)
- Manhattan Brothers Inyembezi (2006)
- Free at First (2009, with Robin Aspland , Pinise Saul, Anita Wardell , Steve Watts, Tristan Mailliot and others)
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Glasser, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge |