Roger Glenn

The son of Tyree Glenn — a trombonist and vibrophonist who played extensively with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Louis Armstrong — Roger Glenn likewise played vibraphones, but was known most prominently being a flutist. Younger Glenn set up himself on the market with early ‘70s times for Mongo Santamaría, playing on Mongo ‘70, Mongo at Montreux, and Mongo’s Method, where he first used his history in Latin jazz. Soon after that, he became a very important person in Donald Byrd’s prolonged musical family members tree. Not merely did he perform on Byrd’s Dark Byrd and Street Woman, but he linked to the architects of these albums, Fonce and Larry Mizell, and performed on their classes with Bobbi Humphrey (Nice Dancer) and Johnny Hammond (Gears). In 1976, he led Reachin’, a typically breezy Mizell-assisted arranged released on Dream. After the past due ‘70s, his studio room time reduced, but he continuing to perform for the Western Coastline (he relocated to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA) and throughout European countries. A genuine mult-instrumentalist, he also performed clarinet, oboe, and saxophone.