[78-L] Nathan Glantz Birthdate

[Glen Richards]

Scroll up to page 21 in that issue - there's a nice large photo of
Glantz as well as one of the Van Eps trio, I think!

Glen

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:29:54 +0000
David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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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> Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com