The Chronological Lloyd Glenn, 1954-1957

I just play this item on my player and the songs on this CD was just as I remember them. These are beautiful tunes since they are done by a pianists. Anyone who loves piano music I would recommend this item.

great cd by a great piano player who had his day back in the 50's

Chronological Classics CDs were a concept of Gilles Pétard of France who set out in 1989 to ambitiously re-release as many of the 78-rpm Jazz/Big Band (Swing) selections as he could, each with detailed and informative inserts. The first volume was Ella Fitzgerald 1935-1937 and, after producing close to 1,000 CDs, the series ceased operations in 2004 after filing for bankruptcy. By that time Pétard had started on some of the earliest 45-rpm/33 1/3-rpm discs, while encompassing many of the top R&B artists of the time, a few of which were featured over more than one CD.One such is pianist/arranger Lloyd Glenn (born in San Antonio, Texas on November 21, 1909) who gets 3 volumes in the vast series - 1947-1950, 1951-1952, and 1954-1957 - containing 67 of the sides he cut in that span. His career actually began with a number of Jazz/Swing bands in Texas, including his first time on record in 1936 with Don Albert & His Orchestra - America`s Greatest Swing Band as they were then billed. In 1941 he found himself in California where, in 1944, he became a member of The Walter Johnson Trio. He also found steady employment as a session pianist and the odd arranging gig, work that eventually got him noticed by T-Bone Walker who recruited Glenn (without billing) to play on Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad), a # 5 on what then passed as the R&B charts in Feb 1948 (Black & White 122). Later that same year he again appeared in a hit record, the # 1 R&B Bewildered billed As The Red Miller Trio (Bullet 295).In 1949 he finally landed a contract of his own with Imperial Records where he cut these sides, all of which appear in the volume 1947-1950: Rampart Street Jump b/w That Other Woman's Gotta Go (Imperial 5022); Boogieology b/w Texas Man (Imperial 5025); and Advice To A Fool b/w The Joymaker's Boogie (Imperial 5031), all billed as Lloyd Glenn & His Joymakers, while Fried Chicken Boogie - the same song as Rampart Street Jump - come out on Imperial 5037 b/w Midnight Boogie billed simply Lloyd Glenn. These all came out in 1949/50. In 1951, billed as The Lloyd Glenn Orchestra, he had Fried Chicken/Midnight on Imperial 5117, and Soldier's Hop (same song as The Joymaker's Boogie) b/w Rockin' Boogie (same song as Boogieology) on Imperial 5129 billed as Lloyd Glenn. None made any national charts.That changed when, also functioning as A&R man at Jack Lauderdale's Los Angeles-based Swing Time Records (originally Down Beat Records when launched in 1947 and briefly Swing Beat Records), Everyday I Have The Blues peaked at # 3 R&B in June-July 1950 b/w Rocking After Midnight (Swing Time 196), billed as Lowell Fulson Featuring Lloyd Glenn At The "88" followed in August-September by the # 1 R&B (4 weeks) Blue Shadows b/w the # 8 R&B Low Society Blues under the same billing on Swing Time 226. None are here but may be found in the series volumes dealing with Lowell Fulson.What you do get here is the Nov-Dec 1950 # 3 R&B Old Time Shuffle Blues on Swing Time 237 billed as Lloyd Glenn With Th' Fulson Unit (but not the flipside, Sinner's Prayer), and the April-May 1951 # 1 R&B (2 weeks) Chica Boo on Swing Time 254 as well as its B-side, Jungle Time Jubilee. Other non-charting Swing Time releases included here are Levee Blues (Swing Time 199 in June 1950 - the B-side, Brazos Bottom, is the same song as Boogieology) and Blues Hangover b/w Travelin' Time (Swing Time 234).He would never have another national hit after Chica Boo despite recording prolifically into the late 1950s. That included steady work playing with the Edward "Kid" Ory jazz band in 1953, at which time he was signed to the Mesner Brothers label, Aladdin, as a session pianist/producer. Over the ensuing years he would work with such stalwarts as B. B. King and, in concerts, with T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Lloyd passed away at age 75 on May 23, 1985.

Lloyd Glenn est un pianiste méconnu qui gagne à être connu. C'est un pianiste volubile (d'origine texane) qui ajoute à sa technique impeccable un petit zeste de folie latin-feeling avec un percussioniste. Le répertoire est assez classique pour l'époque, avec des titres originaux et des impros particulièrement bien maitrisées, qui flirtent même parfois avec la rhumba, mais l'ensemble est particulièrement efficace.