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Elmer Snowden
Elmer Snowden is credited on 81 releases across 28 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
81
Pressings credited
28
Albums
7
Decades active
7
In collections
Biography
Elmer Chester Snowden (October 9, 1900 – May 14, 1973) was an American banjo player of the Jazz Age. He also played guitar and, in the early stages of his career, all the reed instruments. He contributed greatly to jazz in its early days as both a player and a bandleader, and launched the careers of many top musicians.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
81 releases · 28 albums · active 1960–2025
- Performance · 142
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Berliner Philharmonie · Stea-Phillips · Deutsches Hygiene-Museum · Montreux Jazz Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Bessie Smith
- Lonnie Johnson (2)
- Luis Russell
- Cliff Jackson's Washboard Wanderers
- Bud Freeman
- Roy Eldridge
- Dick Wellstood
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