Johnny Glasel 1930-2011 RIP

[HolgerFreimutSchrick]

Johnny Glasel played in the 1940s with Bob Wilber and Sidney Bechet, in the 50s also with Bob Wilber's Ensemble The Six and with Bill Russo. Under his own name, he recorded several albums, most notably John Glasel Brasstet (1959), with Eddie Bert, Gene Allen, Louis Mucci, Jimmy Buffington, Dick Cary, John Drew und Ed Shaughnessy; the recordings were published 45 years later on Fresh Sound. Most prominent was his role on the Into the Hot-Session, where he' s been heard on three titles of John Carisi, published unter Gil Evans Orchestra: Into the Hot (Impulse). In his later years he has worked a session musician with John Denver, Walter Wanderley und Astrud Gilberto (I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do 1969), in the 1970s with Roberta Flack and Eddy Mitchell (Made in USA).

see the complete article:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Glasel

see also (but incomplete):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Glasel

Edited December 22, 2011 by Holger Schrick

[Clunky]

I really enjoy the rather tamely titled Jazz Session featuring Dick Garcia- ABC Paramount - some very good playing all round including an early version of Ruby My Dear. On the strength of this it's more than a pity that he didn't lead more dates

[HolgerFreimutSchrick]

Do you know the other musicians playing on this record?

[Clunky]

Johnny Glasel -trumpet

Dick Garcia -guitar , 5 tracks *

Perry Lopez- guitar , 3 tracks +

Whitey Mitchell-bass

Osie Johnson- drums

tracks ABC 165

taps miller *

I couldnt do without you*

ruby my dear +

two for the show *

Harvey not Walter*

Three to make ready*

Star eyes +

The Party's over +

[HolgerFreimutSchrick]

Thanks... and who played with Glasel on the Columbia album Free Fall (1963)?

[Hardbopjazz]

R.I.P. Johnny Glasel.

[Larry Kart]

Excellent Glasel here from 1959, and the Westchester Workshop portion of the program, also from 1959, is fascinating, too:

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/the_westchester_workshop__the_john_glasel_brasstet_-_rare_studio_recordings_by_two_outstanding_jazz_ensembles-cd-3547.html

[Big Beat Steve]

Ah, now I remember where Johnny Glasel's name last crossed my searches:

I have the original RKO-Unique LP of the Westchester Workshop LP (and therefore half of that Fresh Sound CD) so for the time being (maybe wrongly) skipped that reissue.

Yes, that Westchester Workshop is a very insteresting obscurity.

[HolgerFreimutSchrick]

Ah, now I remember where Johnny Glasel's name last crossed my searches:

I have the original RKO-Unique LP of the Westchester Workshop LP (and therefore half of that Fresh Sound CD) so for the time being (maybe wrongly) skipped that reissue.

Yes, that Westchester Workshop is a very insteresting obscurity.

What's the year, when the RKO-Unique-LP was published? (I think, it's the same label who edited the LP Mingus in Stuttgart 1964?)

[Big Beat Steve]

The discographies give a recording date of 1956 for the Westchester Workshop LP (RKO-103) and Goldmine states the publishing date as 1957.

Which sounds credible - the publishing date of another RKO-Unique LP I have (RKO-124, Herbie Fields Sextet - A Night At Kitty's) also is listed as 1957.

BTW, does anybody know what the connection is between the Westchester Workshop session and the Johnny Glasel session on that Fresh Sound reissue? Any connection at all, or just a coupling of two fairly obscure sessions?