Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Abe Glenn Osser [videorecording].

Author

Osser, Glenn.

Publication

2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Friedwald, Will, 1961-
• Hines, Kay
• Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)

Description

2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Abe Glenn Osser speaks with Will Friedwald about recently turning 95 years old; growing up on the Upper Peninsula in Michigan; his early musical training; attending Northern State Teacher's College and the University of Michigan, where he studied violin and piano before changing his major to composition and theory; writing orchestrations for big bands; his reaction to living in Ann Arbor after being on the Peninsula his whole life; taking up the clarinet and saxophone in high school; playing clarinet in a marching band for Ohio State; forming his own big band; moving to New York City in 1936; his mentor, Charles Warren; being paid to arrange charts for bands around the New York City including Bob Crosby's band; his experience arranging regularly for Paul Whiteman's band; how he prefers Goodman's style of jazz to the dixieland style of jazz; his relationship with Les Brown; becoming staff arranger at NBC in 1937; conducting the Fred Allen Show orchestra; working Goodman's Camel Caravan radio show; joining the Maritime Services in 1942; marrying his wife, Edna, in 1941; Edna's songwriting successes with co-author Marjorie Goetschius; changing his name from Abe to Glenn when he became staff conductor at ABC; conducting for the Miss America Pageant for thirty-three years, beginning in 1955; Les Brown and other artists who recorded Edna Osser's songs; working with artists such as Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Robert Goulet, Jack Jones, and Sam Cooke; continuing to work into his nineties.

Series Statement

Duke jazz histories

Uniform Title

Duke jazz histories.

Subjects

• Jazz musicians > Interviews
• Arrangers (Musicians) > Interviews
• Conductors (Music) > Interviews
• Osser, Glenn > Interviews

Note

• Interview with Abe Glenn Osser conducted by Will Friedwald, in Purchase, N.Y., on September 10, 2009.

Event (note)

• This interview was videotaped at the Old Oaks Country Club in Purchase, New York on September 10, 2009, by Kay Hines.

Funding (note)

• Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Call Number

*LDV 1253

OCLC

460652595

Author

Osser, Glenn. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Abe Glenn Osser [videorecording].

Imprint

2009.

Series

Duke jazz histories

Duke jazz histories.

Event

This interview was videotaped at the Old Oaks Country Club in Purchase, New York on September 10, 2009, by Kay Hines.

Funding

Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details

DVD.

Added Author

Friedwald, Will, 1961- Interviewer

Hines, Kay, videographer.

Hines, Kay, editor of moving image work.

Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)

Research Call Number

*LDV 1253