Glen Gray

About the artist

Glen Gray Knoblauch, better known as Glen Gray, (7 June 1900 – 23 August 1963) was a well-known jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra. When he was 13 years old, Gray organized a group known as Spike's Jazz Band. A graduate of Roanoke High School, he later attended Illinois Wesleyan University but left to work as a bill clerk for the Santa Fe Railroad. In the late 1920s Gray was playing saxophone in the Orange Blossoms Band. After performing at the Casa Loma Hotel in Toronto for eight months

Top songs

  1. Let Yourself Go
  2. Smoke Rings
  3. Shades of Hades
  4. Everytime I Look At You
  5. For Sentimental Reasons
  6. Swing Mister Charlie
  7. Casa Loma Stomp (Closing)
  8. Blue Illusion
  9. Royal Garden Blues
  10. Melancholy Mood
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  1. Apollo Jumps
  2. Remember
  3. The House Is Haunted (by The Echo Of Your Last Goodbye)
  4. Nightmare (Artie Shaw Version)
  5. Casa Loma Stomp
  6. Blue Moon
  7. I Got Rhythm
  8. A Lover's Lullaby (Twilight Reverie)
  9. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
  10. Smoke Rings - Alternate Take
  11. Under A Blanket Of Blue
  12. Tuxedo Junction
  13. Opus One
  14. My Heart Tells Me
  15. No Name Jive
  16. If I Had My Way
  17. Star Dust
  18. Opus No. 1
  19. Come and Get It
  20. Woodchopper's Ball
  21. Swanee River Boogie (The Commanders Version)
  22. Avalon
  23. Boogie Woogie Man
  24. Sunrise Serenade
  25. Hallelujah
  26. Girl Of My Dreams
  27. Castle Of Dreams
  28. Memories of You
  29. Should I?
  30. Smoke Rings (Theme)
  31. For You
  32. In The Mood
  33. Song Of India
  34. Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow
  35. Begin the Beguine
  36. Hindustan
  37. Blue Room
  38. Hungarian Dance No.5 (Brahms)
  39. Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
  40. Last Night's Gardenias
  41. Honeysuckle Rose
  42. Sometimes I'm happy
  43. White Jazz
  44. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  45. Goodbye (Benny Goodman Version)
  46. Clementine (From New Orleans)
  47. The Fable Of The Rose
  48. Jungle Fever
  49. Limehouse Blues
  50. Sassin' the boss
  51. Nightmare
  52. Little Brown Jug
  53. It's funny to everyone but me
  54. My Shining Hour
  55. Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland
  56. Come And Get It (Digitally Remastered)
  57. Through (How Can You Say We're Through?)
  58. Farewell (Closing)
  59. I Cried for You
  60. Sleepy Time Gal
  61. Ol' Man River
  62. Chinatown, My Chinatown
  63. Night Train (Buddy Morrow Version)
  64. No-name Jive
  65. A Hundred Years From Today
  66. Introduction
  67. Black Jazz
  68. No Name Jive, Pt 1 & 2
  69. Moonlight Serenade
  70. Elks' Parade
  71. Hungarian Dance #5
  72. The Hour Of Parting
  73. High Society
  74. Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
  75. Sing Something Simple
  76. Love Grows on the White-Oak Tree
  77. Boogie Woogie
  78. A String Of Pearls
  79. Heat Wave (feat. Mildred Bailey)
  80. Maniac's Ball
  81. Blue Again
  82. Stompin' Around
  83. Buji
  84. Dance of the Lame Duck
  85. Symphony In Riffs
  86. Pagan Love Song (Arr. & Tbn Solo Sonny Dunham)
  87. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Tommy Dorsey Version)
  88. Summertime (Bob Crosby Version)
  89. Jack The Bear
  90. Heaven Can Wait

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