Nathan Glantz

The esteemed leader from the Nathan Glantz Orchestra originated from a time of American musical history when bandleaders merrily churned out as much records as you can — sometimes under their real names, sometimes under somebody else’s real name, and sometimes beneath the name of a person who didn’t even exist. In the Roaring Twenties,Glantz got probably one of the most prominent orchestras in NEW YORK, due to that was a masquerade along the racks of what had been basically the 1st personal jazz and dance music group record choices. The Hollywood Dance Orchestra was frequently the Glantz aggregation, as the Roy Collins Dance Orchestra, behind some strikes, was a name used not merely by Glantz but from the Joseph Samuels Orchestra. This is apparently something of the custom with these bandleaders, as the entire year before both Glantz and Samuels pretended to become the Continental Dance Orchestra, having not really yet found out the commercial need for fabricating a bandleader called Roy Collins. These kinds of practices might seem downright bizarre from the standards from the so-called contemporary music market, whose fans may not accept the idea of, state, Kid Rock not necessarily existing, his music performed by John Maher on some information and Snoop Doggy Dogg on others. The real procedure behind the ’20s documenting situation is actually type of mundane, starting naturally with the business enterprise practices of documenting companies. A company would hire a “innovator” to set up a program. The just obligatory talent of the leader will be the mind-set to contact several musicians because of this time, and spend them. Sessions such as for example these will be happening back again to back again. A trumpet participant might be keeping on for the program planned after a Glantz time he was employed for, limited to the next program the trumpet man was the main one employed as head. It just therefore happened he wished an excellent C-melody saxophone for his time, therefore he hires Glantz — being a sideman. The causing confusion means it really is very often hard to track the actions of rings and musicians in the ’10s and ’20s, a predicament that listeners who loathe the overblown superstars of afterwards eras can daydream about bitterly. A few of the most well-known sides in fact released beneath the name from the Nathan Glantz Orchestra are the dark, probing “Talk to Her When Shadows Fall” over the Ajax label, the endearing “Dearie” on Champ, and “Seated within a Part,” an antique Edison “Gemstone Drive.” Tallying up all of the different names, Glantz performed his stack of saxophones on a lot more than 100 different documenting periods between 1916 and 1927.