Lloyd Glenn

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Lloyd Glenn (born November 21, 1909 in San Antonio , Texas , † May 23, 1985 in Los Angeles ) was an American pianist , music producer and arranger in the field of jump blues and rhythm and blues .

Live and act

Glenn played in the 1930s in the southern states in the San Antonio and Dallas area as well as in the American Midwest , u. a. in Don Albert's orchestra , with whom the first recordings were made in 1936. He then settled in California to work with various groups such as Walter Johnson (1944) and Red Mack . Otherwise he worked mainly as a session musician and arranger. In 1947 he accompanied T-Bone Walker on his recording of the Stormy Monday Blues , which became a hit. In the same year he made his first own recordings as Lloyd Glenn and His Joymakers for Imperial Records ; his musicians included Marshall Royal , Gene Phillips and singer Geraldine Carter .

Lowell Fulson - Everyday I Have the Blues

From 1949 he worked as A&R for the Swing Time label by Jack Lauderdale and recorded a number of records with Lowell Fulson , such as Everyday I Have the Blues and Blue Shadows . With Fulson he recorded in 1949 for the label Swing Time under his own name; he had his own R&B hit with his Old Time Shuffle Blues ; the song landed at # 3 on the US Billboard R&B charts in 1950 , followed by Chica Boo , which reached # 1 on the R&B charts in June 1951. He also played as a pianist in Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band . Glenn left Ory in 1953 and worked as a musician and producer for Aladdin Records , u. a. he plays on BB King's album My Kind of Blues (1960).

During the 1960s he continued to work as a session musician for BB King, T-Bone Walker and his own projects. At the end of his career he played in clubs in Los Angeles, performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and toured with Clarence Gatemouth Brown , Big Joe Turner and his son Lloyd Glenn Jr. He was active as a musician until the 1980s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Delaunay : Hot discographie encyclopédique 1952. Volume 3 (El-He) . Paris, Éditions Jazz Disques, 1952.
  2. ^ A b c d e Tony Russell: The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Carlton Books Limited, Dubai, 1993. p. 114. ISBN 1-85868-255-X
  3. ↑ a b c d Lloyd Glenn at Allmusic (English)
personal data
SURNAME Glenn, Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American R&B and jazz musician and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1985
Place of death los Angeles