Glenn Crytzer
{{Short description|American musician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| image = Glenn Crytzer.jpg
| birth_name = Glenn Crytzer
| birth_date = {{birth date|1980|10|13|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| instrument = Guitar, banjo, vocal
| genre = Orchestral jazz, swing, big band
| occupation = bandleader, guitarist, composer, arranger
| years_active = 2006–present
| associated_acts = The Glenn Crytzer Orchestra, Glenn Crytzer's Savoy Seven
| website = {{URL|glenncrytzer.com}}
}}
Glenn Crytzer (born October 13, 1980) is an American jazz band leader, composer, guitarist, banjoist, and singer.
Career
Crytzer's music features prominently in several films, including the documentaries Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club (2015) and Alive and Kicking (2016).{{cite web |title=Music - Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club |url=http://www.oldfashionedthemovie.com/music/ |website=OldFashionedtheMovie.com |accessdate=November 10, 2018 |archive-date=November 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110080334/http://www.oldfashionedthemovie.com/music/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Home - Alive and Kicking |url=http://aliveandkickingfilm.com/ |website=AliveandKickingFilm.com |accessdate=November 10, 2018 |archive-date=November 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110080339/http://aliveandkickingfilm.com/ |url-status=live }} The track "Could This Be Love?", from the Savoy Seven album Uptown Jump,{{cite web |title=Uptown Jump - Glenn Crytzer's Savoy Seven |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/uptown-jump/976321875 |website=iTunes |date=April 13, 2015 |access-date=November 10, 2018 |archive-date=November 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110090327/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/uptown-jump/976321875 |url-status=live }} was used in the soundtrack to the Disney fantasy film Christopher Robin (2018).{{cite web |title=Could This Be Love? - Glenn Crytzer - Vintage Jazz |url=https://glenncrytzer.bandcamp.com/track/could-this-be-love |website=GlennCrytzer.BandCamp.com |accessdate=November 10, 2018 |archive-date=November 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110120103/https://glenncrytzer.bandcamp.com/track/could-this-be-love |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=BANDLEADER GLENN CRYTZER SONG FEATURED IN NEW DISNEY MOVIE "CHRISTOPHER ROBIN" |url=http://www.jazzpromoservices.com/jazz-news/bandleader-glenn-crytzer-song-featured-in-new-disney-movie-christopher-robin/ |website=JazzPromoServices.com |accessdate=November 10, 2018}}
Influences
Crytzer's influences include Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Chick Webb, Charlie Christian, Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Jimmy Rushing, and the other "greats" of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Rather than solely copying the work of others, however, Crytzer strives to create his own sound within the vintage style, composing and arranging new material that sounds authentic to the period.
Discography
- Chasin' The Blues (2009){{cite web |url=http://www.syncopators.net/products-page/ |title=Shop « Glenn Crytzer |publisher=Syncopators.net |date= |accessdate=February 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209004005/http://www.syncopators.net/products-page/ |archive-date=February 9, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
- Harlem Mad (2011)
- Skinny Minne (2012)
- Focus Pocus (2013)
- A Little Love This Christmas (2013)
- Uptown Jump (2015)
- Aint' It Grand? (2018)
- Underneath the Mistletoe (2019)
References
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External links
- [http://www.glenncrytzer.com Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118085653/http://glenncrytzer.com/ |date=January 18, 2012 }}
- [http://www.seattleswing.com Seattleswing.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407040506/http://www.seattleswing.com/ |date=April 7, 2012 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111231122559/http://www.syncopators.net/bios/ Syncopators.net]
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Category:Cleveland Institute of Music alumni
Category:Florida State University alumni
Category:American male composers
Category:21st-century American composers
Category:Guitarists from Pennsylvania
Category:American male guitarists