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Glen Gray Knoblauch, better known as Glen Gray, (June 7, 1900 – August 23, 1963, Plymouth, Massachusetts) was a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.Gray was born to Lurdie P. and Agnes (Gray) Knoblauch in Metamora, Illinois. His father was a lifelong railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde, who was a few years younger than she was.Gray graduated from Roanoke High School. He is said to have joined the army at seventeen and two years later he was living at home with his family. He was employed as a bill clerk for the railroad. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University but left to work for the Santa Fe Railroad.In 1927, his Orange Blossoms Band was renamed the Casa Loma Orchestra, after Casa Loma in Toronto, where the band played for eight months. Gray collaborated with the jazz musician Jean Goldkette and with trumpeter/arranger Salvador Camarata. He gave Betty George her first job as a soloist. Ill health forced Gray to retire from touring in 1950. In 1956, he went back into the studio to record the first of what became a series of LPs for Capitol Records, which recreated the sounds of the big band era in stereo.[edit] References^ a b The Mississippi Rag, Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, George A. Borgman, October 2006, page 1^ Clayton, John. John Clayton: Greek goddess of song dies. http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=John+Clayton%3A+Greek+goddess+of+song+dies&articleId=a4a503d3-e318-4231-b35d-932718a27640. Retrieved 31 December 2010. [edit] External linksGlen Gray at the Internet Movie DatabaseGlen Gray biography at Swingmusic.netGlen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (MP3 format)The Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra records, 1915-1979 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.PersondataNameGray, GlenAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthJune 7, 1900Place of birthDate of deathAugust 23, 1963Place of deathThis article on an American saxophonist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_GrayCategories: 1900 births | 1963 deaths | American saxophonists | Bandleaders | American military personnel of World War I | People from Woodford County, Illinois | Deaths from lymphoma | Cancer deaths in Massachusetts | People from Plymouth, Massachusetts | Illinois Wesleyan University alumni | American woodwind musician stubs | Saxophonist stubsHidden categories: Articles using Infobox musical artist with deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutsch This page was last modified on 14 January 2011 at 13:27.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();