Betty Glamann

Betty Glamann Voorhees ( born May 21, 1923 in Wellington, Kansas; † 3 September 1990) was an American jazz harpist. She played with Kenny Dorham, Duke Ellington, and Oscar Pettiford.

Life and work

Betty Glamann played since the age of ten harp, attended a conservatory, graduated in 1944 at Goucher College and worked three years at the Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore. She played in 1948 Spike Jones, founded 1954, the Smith - Glamann Quintet, played 1955 times with Duke Ellington and Marian McPartland, and then 1957-58 with Oscar Pettiford. With the band of Kenny Dorham they recorded the album Jazz Contrasts. In 1958 she was involved in recordings by Michel Legrand Miles Davis and John Coltrane, but also to a panel of Eddie Costa and played in 1960 with the Modern Jazz Quartet. Also, an album Swinging on a Harp was created under his own name.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Duke Ellington: A Drum Is A Woman (Columbia, 1957)
• Bill Evans & Eddie Costa: Complete Quartet Recordings ( Lone Hill Jazz, 1958)
• Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts ( Prestige / OJC, 1957)
• Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz ( Phillips, 1958)
• Modern Jazz Quartet: MJQ 40 (Atlantic, 1952-88 )
• Oscar Pettiford Deep Passion ( Impulse!, 1956-57 )