[78-L] Nathan Glantz Birthdate

[David Lewis]

I'm searching for more info, but this article from 1922 
http://tinyurl.com/yf59n5n
doesn't seem to show a 62 year old (though it is possible)

 

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Thanks Martha for finding that article! It contains a little thumbnail sketch of what recording was like in 1922, although the author does not identify which studio they are in. The author -- whom I think is a woman, judging from the tone of the writing -- also mentions that Glantz has recorded for Columbia and Okeh, which I didn't know. I suspect he recorded at Okeh with Harry Raderman, with whom Glantz did a fair amount of work.

 

As to his age, this photo and the other I've seen -- a shot of the Van Eps Trio from this time or a little earlier -- seems to indicate a man about Fred's age or a little younger; in this photo he certainly looks closer to 40 than 60, and seems to have dropped some weight compared to the Van Eps Trio shot. Perhaps Glantz was born around 1880 rather than 1860; the latter date would make him nearly 20 years older than Fred. He was old enough to remember, in this article, what it was like to be a saxophone virtuoso when no one was interested in saxophones, however he was not so young that he ever completely abandoned his classically derived sense of vibrato. That doesn't close the gap by much; Rudy Wiedoeft, who employed a similar approach, was born in 1893.   


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