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Adam Glasser

Originally from South Africa Adam Glasser plays piano & keyboards. Is also one of the UK's leading chromatic harmonica players, appearing on many gigs, sessions and recordings. some major gigs include... Joe Zawinul, Sting, the Eurythmics, BBC Concert Orchestra, Celebrate South Africa, Trafalgar Square

Numerous pop and jazz session recordings include: Zizi Possi (Bossa for Universal Artists, Brazil), Dominic Miller (Second Nature & Fourth Wall), Carl Orr (Absolute Freedom featuring Billy Cobham), Incognito, Anita Wardell.

Awards

Peter Whittingham Award - 1996

Gear

Hohner CX 12 Seydel Saxony Suzuki Chromatic AER Amp SM58 Chordless mic


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Take Five With Adam Glasser

Read "Take Five With Adam Glasser" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Adam Glasser:Adam grew up in South Africa influenced by township jazz. He took a UK English Literature degree, started gigging as pianist in Paris 1980, with a semester at Berklee in 1981. He gigged around London '80s/'90s with own trio and commercial gigs, tours with Jimmy Witherspoon, Martha Reeves, and for Manhattan Brothers, and produced their album Inyembezi. Harmonica on films, played with Sting, Joe Zawinul, Eurythmics, Carl Orr Band, Incognito, some orchestral gigs, and his own ...

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Adam Glasser: Free at First

Read "Free at First" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Of all the harmonica players who have followed in the footsteps of legendary harmonicist Jean “Toots" Thielemans' wizardry, Adam Glasser may be the only proponent of this instrument--so little used that it only features in the “Miscellaneous" instruments lexicon of jazz discography and literature--who has brought a truly unique voice and idiom to the constantly evolving language of jazz. Stevie Wonder, Gregoire Maret and Hendrick Meurkens are all virtuosi non-pareil. Glasser does something more. On Free at ...

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"...only proponent of this instrument who has brought a truly unique voice and idiom to the constantly evolving language of jazz. [...] a challenge to equal for sheer scope of virtuosity, musicality and surprise". —Raul d'Gama Rose, allaboutjazz.com

"This recording is superb from start to finish and should firmly establish Glasser as the heir apparent to Toots Thielemans [...]" —Thomas R. Erdmann, jazzreview.com

"Supremely impressive, .. Glasser dishes out some incredible piano playing in a contemporary, spiritual but feverish bop-infused style". —Michael G. Nastos, allmusic.com

"All the virtuosity and panache associated with practitioners on more conventional instruments [ ...] a wholly impressive evening's music from a man in complete control of his considerable resources" —Chris Parker, vortexjazz.co.uk

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Primary Instrument

Harmonica

Location

London

Willing to teach

Advanced only

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mzansi

Sunnyside Records
2012

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Free At First

Sunnyside Records
2009

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Blues for Zim

From: Mzansi
By Adam Glasser

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