Thomas Glagow

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Tom Glagow by Till Brönner
ABBA and Tom Glagow in Stockholm
Tom Glagow and Joe Sample by Steven Haberland
Till Brönner and Tom Glagow at the Grammy in LA

Thomas Glagow (born July 7, 1961 in Buxtehude , Lower Saxony) is a German music publisher , DJ, bassist, radio presenter, music producer and founder of the jazz label CARE Music Group

Life

Thomas Glagow completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk and then attended the commercial college. During his school days and his apprenticeship as a merchant in wholesale and foreign trade, he played bass with the bands Olhos de Gato , Lindwurm and Slack Rabbit . In the late 1970s he became a DJ in the first Hamburg Jazz - Disco aftershave . From 1980 to -82 Thomas Glagow worked as a buyer / seller in the jazz department for the record at Mönckebergbrunnen in Hamburg. In 1982 Glagow founded his company Tom-Tom-Pro-Motion and worked for 3 years with artists such as Elephant , Pretty Things , Felix De Lux , John Martyn , Danny Thompson , Pentangle , Florian Poser's Lifeline with the young Ulrike Haage , Naima with Hans Lüdemann or the band Orfeo. During this time he played bass with Dirk Iwen, Ali Hussain, Thomas Wasiliszczak and Andreas Willers in various sessions . Foundation of the band Yeah with Sebastian Wocker . TV appearance at 3 nach 9 Radio Bremen and concerts in London and Hamburg. From 1985 to 1992 Glagow worked as a DJ in the Große Freiheit 36 , in the Kaiserkeller and the Kupferkanne on Sylt. Opening of the own 24 hour restaurant Night & Day .

From 1985 to 1992 Glagow was a radio presenter, trained by Ad Roland , at the Hamburg city broadcaster Radio 107 (later Alster Radio ), from 1992 to 2000 as Product Manager Jazz ( GRP / Impulse! ) When MCA was founded, which then became Universal Music Group were. He also worked as a product manager for Longform Video or Special Marketing. Activities as Product Manager Geffen Records and Universal International followed. After the merger of Polygram and Universal, Senior Product Manager Polydor and Marketing Director Polydor International. During this time he worked with artists like the Bloodhound Gang , Zuccero , Ronan Keating , Emilia , Gianna Nannini , Björk , Cure , Henry Rollins , S Club 7 , Lee Ritenour , Chick Corea , Pat Metheny , Joe Sample , Wayne Henderson , Dave Grusin , Spyro Gyra , Diana Krall , Richard Page , Robben Ford , Michael Brecker , Vinnie Colaiuta , Jonatha Brooke , Crusaders , Brecker Brothers , Gary Burton , Diane Schuur , Dave Valentin , Tom Scott , David Benoit , Larry Carlton , Spyro Gyra, Rippingtons , Yellowjackets , Nils Gessinger , Mehmet Ergin or Ramsey Lewis .

In 2000 the Hamburg band Sugar Cane (Crusaders Cover Band) was founded with Andreas Paulsen (Keyb./Rhodes), Matthias Görlich (Drums), Hockey Neubert (Git.), Matthias Peters (Trombone), Pablo Escayola (Perc. ) and Andreas Böther (Sax).

In autumn 2000 Glagow became Managing Director of Global Chrysalis Musikverlage in Munich for GSA & Eastern Europe. As a publisher, he worked here with artists such as Till Brönner , Nils Wülker , Anna Depenbusch , Rod Temperton , Triband , Ian Anderson ( Jethro Tull ) and die Killerpilze . Glagow was instrumental in the acquisition of the Four Knight catalog with all the songs by the Crusaders , Wilton Felder and Joe Sample . This includes compositions like Street Life or One Day I'll Fly Away . Global Chrysalis also represented songs by Elvis Presley , Jonatha Brooke , Patrice Rushen , Kylie Minogue , Lee Ritenour , Bob James , Philip Glass , George Harrison , Neil Young , Herbie Hancock , John Denver and the major American catalogs DreamWorks and Cherry Lane. and some important Leiber and Stoller compositions.

In 2008, Glagow founded his own company, CARE Music Group GmbH . The label, founded in 2009 together with Karsten Jahnke , has now released 36 albums (as of June 2013) by artists such as Dave Grusin & Don Grusin , Chuck Loeb , David Rhodes , 3ergezimmer , Burgstaller Martignon 4, Christian Prommer & Roberto Di Gioia , Carmen Cuesta , CAST, Christian Elsässer , Clara Ponty, Don Grusin, Gordon Haskell , Heiko Fischer Quartet , Ikiz, Jazul, Jonatha Brooke , Kim Sanders , Lizzy Loeb, Lutz Häfner , Martin Auer Quintet, Marwie, Magnum Coltrane Price, Michael J. McEvoy, Peter Fessler , Philippe Saisse, James Morton "Porkchop", PSP ( Pino Palladino , Philippe Saisse, Simon Phillips ), Rudder, Tim Allhoff Trio, Tower of Power (Feat. Joss Stone , Tom Jones & Stefanie Heinzmann ), Frank Kirchner & Zoomachine .

The publishing house includes artists such as Don Grusin , Lee Ritenour , Chuck Loeb , Heiko Fischer , Christian Prommer , Nils Wülker and Peter Fessler . Echo Jazz winners of the CARE Music Group: Heiko Fischer, Christian Elsässer , Lutz Häfner , Bastian Jütte (Tim Allhoff Trio).

In the early 1990s Glagow was a co-founder of the Jazz working group, which established the German Jazz Award (from 10,000 units). This working group later became Jazz & World Partners . Glagow has been a member of the American NARAS since 1998 . (LA Chapter) which awards the Grammy . He is a "voting member", that is, entitled to vote. Glagow has been a member of the jury for Echo Jazz since 2009 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. muenchenblogger.de Small Munich label customer # 4: CARE Music Group, Care - Everything for the artist