SUPER RARE Christmas Fantasy Betty Glamann SEALED MINT LP Record Harp LENTOGRAPH
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Oct 30, 2011 Sold Date
Oct 21, 2011 Start Date
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SHIPPING TO LOWER 48 USA, ONLY--SEALED MINT
super rare late 50s SEALED/MINT record by a legend of jazz harp
Betty Glamann's "Christmas Fantasy" has a 7 x 10" 3D-Lentograph" on the cover.

Betty Glamann (b. May 21, 1923, Wellington, Kansas) is an American jazz harpist.


Glamann learned to play harp at the age of ten. She attended a conservatory and was the harpist for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for three years. She played with Spike Jones in 1948, founded the Smith-Glamann Quintet in 1955, played with Duke Ellington and Marian McPartland around 1955 and then with Oscar Pettiford during 1957-58. With Kenny Dorham's band she recorded the album Jazz Contrasts in 1957. In 1958 she was involved in a Michel Legrand recording session with John Coltrane and Miles Davis; she played with Eddie Costa in 1958 and with the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1960. She recorded one album under her own name, Swinging on a Harp.

Selected Discography

  • Duke Ellington: A Drum Is a Woman (Columbia, 1957)
  • Bill Evans & Eddie Costa: Complete Quartet Recordings (Lone Hill Jazz, 1958)
  • Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts (Prestige/OJC,1957)
  • Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz (Phillips, 1958)
  • Modern Jazz Quartet: MJQ 40 (Atlantic, 1952–88)
  • Oscar Pettiford: Deep Passion (Impulse!, 1956–57)


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