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Adam Glasser
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
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 ...
read moreAdam Glasser: Free at First
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 ...
read more"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
Primary Instrument
Harmonica
Location
London
Willing to teach
Advanced only
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Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Blues for Zim
From: MzansiBy Adam Glasser