Glen Gray ~ Similar Artists

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Les Brown - 76% match to Glen Gray

Lester Raymond Brown, 14 March 1912, Reinerton, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 4 January 2001, Los Angeles, California, USA. By 1932, when he entered Duke University at Durham, North Carolina, Brown had already attended Ithaca College and the New York Military Academy and had studied... Read more

Erskine Hawkins - 73% match to Glen Gray

26 July 1914, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, d. 11 November 1993, New Jersey, USA. By the time he began playing trumpet at the age of 13, Hawkins had already mastered drums and trombone. It was on trumpet, however, that he established his name as a flamboyant player with an... Read more

Charlie Barnet - 66% match to Glen Gray

Jimmie Lunceford - 62% match to Glen Gray

James Melvin Lunceford, 6 June 1902, Fulton, Mississippi, USA, d. 12 July 1947, Seaside, Oregon, USA. At school in Denver, Colorado, Lunceford studied under Wilberforce Whiteman, father of Paul Whiteman. He later read for a degree in music at Fisk University, where his studies... Read more

Larry Clinton - 56% match to Glen Gray

17 August 1909, Brooklyn, New York, USA, d. 2 May 1985, Deltona, Florida, USA. Clinton started as an arranger and worked for the Dorsey Brothers, the Casa Loma Orchestra, Isham Jones, and Tommy Dorsey's band before forming his own orchestra in 1937. With himself on trumpet,... Read more

Jimmy Dorsey - 55% match to Glen Gray

29 February 1904, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 12 June 1957, New York City, New York, USA. Musically active as a small child under the tutelage of his father, who was a coal miner turned music teacher, Dorsey switched from brass to reed instruments while still in his early... Read more