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Dave Glasser

Dave Glasser has performed extensively with the Clark Terry Quintet since 1995 and with the Count Basie Orchestra (1989-91 under the direction of Frank Foster), Illinois Jacquet (1988, 1991-95), and Barry Harris. He also performs with the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars (Feat. Jon Faddis, Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, James Moody) and was a featured soloist with the Earl May Quartet at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in NYC in 2000, 2001, and 2002. For the past three years he has performed as a leader on an annual tour in Frankfurt, Germany, the latter with pianist Hank Jones and performs regularly around NYC and the world.

Mr. Glasser's fourth CD as a leader is due for release in the fall of 2006 on Arbors records. His third CD as a leader (Begin Again - Chiaroscuro records) reached number 17 on the national jazz radio charts and has received high praise from both musicians and critics alike. He has recorded four CD�s as a member of the Clark Terry Quintet, two as a member of the Earl May Quartet, two as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra, and numerous others as a sideman. In addition Mr. Glasser has recorded as a guest soloist with Dario Cellamaro and Werner Bayer in Italy and Germany respectively. For a full list of his recordings please visit his discography page.

As an instructor, Mr. Glasser has been at the New School Jazz program since 1996 teaching Bebop Harmony, Charlie Parker Ensemble, Ear Training and Applied Saxophone. He was a faculty member of the Clark Terry International Institute of Jazz Studies in Le Mars, Iowa from 1995 - 97, has served as a clinician at numerous universities and high schools around the world and has a strong following as a private instructor.

Born and raised in New York City, Dave Glasser is a graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and has received extensive instruction from Barry Harris.

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Album Review

Dave Glasser: Hypocrisy Democracy

Read "Hypocrisy Democracy" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Something of a socio-political scythe--a title and tool cutting straight into the failing system that surrounds us--Hypocrisy Democracy is also a broad statement detailing the ceaselessly looping fallibility of man and his actions. It's saxophonist Dave Glasser's most probing work to date, bound to both our present state of affairs and the history it mirrors, and it's an album that, despite its bold conceit, actually needs no concept to latch itself onto. The music is that strong. ...

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Dave Glasser: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


There's nothing wrong with a little old school. Saxophonist Dave Glasser keeps it simple--no flash, no gimmicks. Glasser has spent many years as a sideman, performing with artists including the Clark Terry Quintet, the Count Basie Orchestra, Illinois Jacquet and the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars. He has also recorded several CDs as a leader. A native of New York City, Glasser is a master saxophonist, having studied under Lee Konitz, Frank Perowsky and Barry Harris.

Drawing on his admiration for ...

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Dave Glasser: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Alto saxophonist Dave Glasser might have been born at the wrong time. While he is performing and recording some terrific music in the 21st century, his stylistic preferences lean heavily on the music of the 1940s and '50s. Glasser spent ample time over the past two-plus decades performing with Clark Terry, Illinois Jacquet, and Barry Harris, learning about this music from the men who were there. While he continues to use this knowledge on the bandstand, he also pays it ...

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Dave Glasser: Above The Clouds

Read "Above The Clouds" reviewed by Mike Neely


Alto saxophonist Dave Glasser may not be widely known in the world of jazz, but that will change in time. Above the Clouds provides all the evidence one would need to acknowledge that an important new voice is on the scene. This release is a quartet recording with a solid lineup of musicians, featuring Glasser on alto playing a half dozen of his original compositions.Glasser is an intelligent soloist with a wide range of resources. His solo work ...

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Dave Glasser: Above The Clouds

Read "Above The Clouds" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Per redarre le note di copertina, si è scomodato uno dei decani (Ira Gitler) della critica jazz statunitense, che le lodi di un disco non eccelso. Un debole elemento di distinzione di Dave Glasser risiede nel non uniformarsi al timbro parkeriano, per guardare soprattutto a Benny Carter e Johnny Hodges.Varie e prestigiose sono le sue esperienze in alcune celeberrime big-band, al fianco di Clark Terry, Illinois Jacquet e Frank Foster con la Count Basie Orchestra. Prediligendo una sonorità ...

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Dave Glasser: Above The Clouds

Read "Above The Clouds" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Nat Hentoff, in his liner notes to Above The Clouds, doth protest too much in his discussion of jazz, with its supposed death in the States and its creative future in Europe, and then tying his categoric “No!" to icons such as Clark Terry and Jimmy Heath, and youngsters such as 13-year-old Grace Kelly. Wherever one's taste falls in the many streams of jazz, one should always acknowledge players who, while not being bleeding edge anything, have ...

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Dave Glasser: Above The Clouds

Read "Above The Clouds" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


Altoist Dave Glasser continues to build his reputation with Above the Clouds, a well-realized album that's equally divided between Glasser originals and visits to the Great American Songbook. Glasser's group includes pianist Larry Ham and the veteran rhythm section of bassist Dennis Irwin and drummer Carl Allen.

I had the pleasure of hearing Glasser (along with Larry Ham) on an early 2006 Arbors album, Swinging The Blues, which was led by bassist Earl May. There, Glasser delivered most of the ...

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Don't miss the 13tet In Concert at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York on May 19th

Don't miss the 13tet In Concert at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York on May 19th

Source: Chris Gulhaugen

13tet is a group of seasoned New York jazz players, playing charts that let them blow! Smaller and leaner than the usual big band, 13tet emphasizes the players as soloists and personalities, with arrangements rooted in the big band tradition but brought into the 21st Century. It’s hard-driving jazz that explores interesting textures and meters- as long as it swings! The current lineup are veterans of the bands of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, James Moody, Christian McBride, the ...

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Radio

Alto Saxophonist Dave Glasser Charts on His 3rd Jazz Chart

Alto Saxophonist Dave Glasser Charts on His 3rd Jazz Chart

Source: Kari-On Productions

Glasser has been described by Nat Hentoff in this way; “Having heard Glasser primarily in the context of other bands, I was not prepared for the original quality of his composing and arranging. His writing is, first of all, like his playing in that it is utterly without pretentiousness and self-serving display of virtuosity for its own sake. His work reminds me of something Dizzy Gillespie once told me: “It's taken me years to know what not to play."

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Hypocrisy Democracy

Self Produced
2020

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Evolution

Here Tiz Music
2010

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Above The Clouds

Arbors Records
2006

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Dreams Askew, Dreams...

Artemis Records
2002

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Uh! Oh!

Nagel Heyer Records
2000

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Knit Wit

From: Hypocrisy Democracy
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