Glen Gray Knoblauch, better known as Glen Gray, (June 7, 1900 – 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 Metamora, Illinois. His father was a lifelong railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde, who was a few years younger than she was. Gray graduated from Roanoke High School.
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- Glen Gray Knoblauch, better known as Glen Gray, (June 7, 1900 – 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 Metamora, Illinois. His father was a lifelong railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde, who was a few years younger than she was. Gray graduated from Roanoke High School. He is said to have joined the army at seventeen and two years later he was living at home with his family. He was employed as a bill clerk for the railroad. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University but left to work for the Santa Fe Railroad. In 1927, his Orange Blossoms Band was renamed the Casa Loma Orchestra, after Casa Loma in Toronto, where the band played for eight months. Gray collaborated with the jazz musician Jean Goldkette and with trumpeter/arranger Salvador Camarata. Ill health forced Gray to retire from touring in 1950. In 1956, he went back into the studio to record the first of what became a series of LPs for Capitol Records, which recreated the sounds of the big band era in stereo.
- Glen Gray Knoblauch, bekannt als „Glen Gray“, Spitzname „Spike“ war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Saxophonist (Alt) und spätere Leiter des Casa Loma Orchestra. Gray verlor früh seinen Vater, einen Eisenbahnarbeiter. Gray leitete schon als Jugendlicher eigene Bands, besuchte kurz die Illinois Wesleyan University und arbeitete danach bei der Santa-Fe-Eisenbahngesellschaft. 1928 spielte er Saxophon in der Orange Blossoms Band, die ein halbes Jahr in Toronto im Casa Loma Hotel auftrat, nach dem sie sich bei ihrer Neugründung 1929 in New York (als Co-op Band, das heißt alle Bandmitglieder waren beteiligt) nannte. Im selben Jahr machten sie Aufnahmen für Okeh. Sie hatten vor allem bei Studenten an der Ostküste Anfang der 1930er Jahre großen Erfolg und waren beim weißen Publikum einer der Wegbereiter des Swing. Ihr Band-Thema war „Smoke Rings“. Gray übernahm 1935 die Leitung der Band, die seinen Namen als Zusatz erhielt. Bis 1942 nahmen sie für Decca auf, danach bis 1946 für Mercury. Um 1950 löste er die Band auf. Gray machte in den 1950er Jahren noch einige damals erfolgreiche Aufnahmen bei Capitol mit alten Hits der Big Band-Ära. 1963 starb er in seinem Haus an Krebs.
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- Glen Gray Knoblauch, better known as Glen Gray, (June 7, 1900 – 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 Metamora, Illinois. His father was a lifelong railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde, who was a few years younger than she was. Gray graduated from Roanoke High School.
- Glen Gray Knoblauch, bekannt als „Glen Gray“, Spitzname „Spike“ war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Saxophonist (Alt) und spätere Leiter des Casa Loma Orchestra. Gray verlor früh seinen Vater, einen Eisenbahnarbeiter. Gray leitete schon als Jugendlicher eigene Bands, besuchte kurz die Illinois Wesleyan University und arbeitete danach bei der Santa-Fe-Eisenbahngesellschaft.
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