Performance
Betty Glamann
Betty Glamann is credited on 192 releases across 32 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
192
Pressings credited
32
Albums
8
Decades active
37
In collections
Biography
Betty Glamann Voorhees (May 21, 1923 – September 3, 1990) was an American jazz harpist. She was born in Wellington, Kansas. 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.
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Credited work
192 releases · 32 albums · active 1955–2026
- Performance · 232
Studios: Reeves Sound Studios · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Mercury Sound Studios · Birdland
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Miles Davis
- Various
- Michel Legrand
- The Modern Jazz Quartet
- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Kenny Dorham
- The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra
- Johnny Lytle
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