GLENN WILSON

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Glenn Wilson, a Youngstown, Ohio native and Illinois resident, spent his college days as an alto saxophone major, but his career is tied to the baritone, for a simple reason. "I play the other saxophones," he says, "but not as a performer. On them, I just don't hear that definite Glenn Wilson sound."

While the baritone has its own voice in the jazz world, Wilson, 49, takes it into a deeper and beefier nature than offered by many. He points to Gerry Mulligan, one of the aces of that instrument, as having the sound of a "slightly deeper tenor" player, a bit removed from Wilson's Pepper Adams-influenced approach.

He was an alto major at Youngstown State University. Baritone wasn't considered worthwhile, he says, so he had to do all his academic playing on the smaller horn.But in the jazz band there, he played baritone because he says he thought he had more read more...
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GLENN WILSON Impasse album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Impasse
Hard Bop 1984
GLENN WILSON Elusive album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Elusive
Hard Bop 1988
GLENN WILSON Bittersweet (with Rory Stuart) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Bittersweet (with Rory Stuart)
Hard Bop 1992
GLENN WILSON Blue Porpoise Avenue album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Blue Porpoise Avenue
Hard Bop 1997
GLENN WILSON One Man's Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 One Man's Blues
Hard Bop 2000
GLENN WILSON Timely album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Timely
Hard Bop 2015

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