Tyree Glenn

Evans Tyree Glenn ( born November 23, 1912 in Corsicana (Texas ), † May 18, 1974 in Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz trombonist of Swing.

Tyree Glenn played from 1929 in local orchestras, then with Tommy Mills in Washington, DC 1934-36 and in New York with Eddie Barefield 1936/37, in the studio band of the "Jazz Barons " Timme Rosenkrantz 1938, Benny Carter 1939/40, and Cab Calloway 1940-46. Glenn visited Europe in 1946 with Don Redman Orchestra and was hired after his return to the United States by Duke Ellington, with whom he remained until the spring of 1951. From 1952 he worked as a studio musician for television and radio stations in New York and worked as a freelance musician for various swing and Dixieland formations. With its own quartet, he joined in the second half he 1950s in New York, also from 1952-63 in the Daily radio show. 1965-1968 Glenn toured with the Louis Armstrong All Stars; with Armstrong he played until his death in 1971. During his last years, he again directed his own band.

Glenn led the Ellington orchestra known Tricky Sam Nanton Joe Growl ( Wah Wah ) style, but also played an excellent swing trombone. Occasionally he appeared as a vibraphonist. He can be heard in Benny Carter's " Melancholy Lullaby" in 1939, Rex Stewart's "Three Horn Parlay " In 1945, Duke Ellington's " Hy'a Sue ", "Three Cent Stomp ", " Sultry Serenade" in 1947 and on recordings with Don Byas, Cab Calloway, Sid Catlett, Milt Hinton, Billie Holiday, Jonah Jones, Hot Lips Page, Timmie Rosenkrantz, Billy Taylor and Joe Thomas.

Lexical entry

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th Edition, Penguin, London, 2002. ISBN 0-14-017949-6
  • Carlo Bohländer inter alia: Reclams jazz leader. Reclam, Stuttgart, 1989
  • Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988
  • Bielefeld Catalog Jazz, 2001
  • Jazz trombonist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1912
  • Died in 1974
  • Man
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