Lloyd Glenn

'Deep Blue Melody'   Lloyd Glenn (piano) w Don Albert and His Orchestra

18 Nov 1936 in San Antonio   Matrix SA2524-2   Vocalion 3423

Trumpet: Billy Douglas / Alvin Alcorn / Hiram Harding

Trombone: James Robinson / Frank Jacquet

Reeds (clarinet / sax): Gus Patterson / Harold "Dink" Taylor / Herb Hall / Louis Cottrell

Guitar: Ferdinand Dejan   Bass: James Johnson   Drums: Albert Martin

Composition: Glenn

Lloyd left Texas for Los Angeles in 1941, there to hook up with the Walter Johnson Trio in 1944, also becoming employed as a session musician. In 1945 Glenn joined Red Mack and His All Stars for such as 'The Joint Is Jumpin' and 'T'ain't Me'. Working with T-Bone Walker would have been a major highlight in any musician's career, which occurred in December of 1946 for Glenn, he backing Walker as one of the Al Killian Quintet in Hollywood for takes of 'Stormy Monday', 'She Had to Let Me Down', et al. Glenn would see Walker again in latter 1947, 1957 and 1967-68, their last occasion for Walker's 'Funky Town' in Los Angeles.

'I Know Your Wig Is Gone'   Lloyd Glenn (piano) w T-Bone Walker (guitar / vocal)

13 Sep 1947 in Hollywood   Matrix BW635-3   Black and White 122

Trumpet: Teddy Buckner   Tenor sax: Bumps Myers

Bass: Arthur Edwards   Drums: Lee Bradley

Composition: Walker / Ruth George

'Call It Stormy Monday'   Lloyd Glenn (piano) w T-Bone Walker (guitar / vocal)

13 Sep 1947 in Hollywood   Matrix BW637-3   Black and White 122

Trumpet: Teddy Buckner   Tenor sax: Bumps Myers

Bass: Arthur Edwards   Drums: Lee Bradley

Composition: Walker

Come December of 1947 for Glenn's first name session with his Joymakers toward such as 'Joymakers Boogie' and 'Advice to a Fool'. On 26 October 1951 he filled his Combo with Lowell Fulson and Mitchell "Tiny" Webb at guitars with Earl Burton on bongos for 'Tickle Toe Two Step'. Fulson and Glenn would reunite about three decades later in Los Angeles for titles that went unissued by Chess like 'Good Time Back Home' and 'Little Eva'.

'Joymaker's Boogie' aka 'Soldier's Hop'   Lloyd Glenn (piano) w His Joymakers

Sometime Dec 1947 in Los Angeles   Matrix IM41   Imperial 5031

Trumpet: Jake Porter   Alto sax: Marshal Royal   Tenor sax: Gene Porter

Guitar: Gene Phillips   Bass: Arthur Edwards   Drums: Bill Streets

Composition: Glenn

'Midnight Boogie' aka 'Rockin' Boogie'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w His Joymakers

26 or 27 Dec 1947 in Los Angeles   Matrix IM70   Imperial 5037

Trumpet: Jake Porter   Alto sax: Marshal Royal   Tenor sax: Gene Porter

Guitar: Gene Phillips   Bass: Arthur Edwards   Drums: Bill Streets

'Blues Hangover'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

9 Nov 1950 in Los Angeles   Swing Time 234

Bass: Billy Hadnott   Drums: Bill Streets

Composition: Glenn

'Jungle Town Jubilee'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

9 Nov 1950 in Los Angeles   Swing Time 254

Bass: Billy Hadnott   Drums: Bill Streets   Bongos: Earl Burton

Composition: Glenn

'Chica Boo'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

9 Nov 1950 in Los Angeles   Swing Time 254   #1 on Billboard's R&B 19'51

Bass: Billy Hadnott   Drums: Bill Streets   Bongos: Earl Burton

Composition: Glenn

Glenn took residence in the band of another major figure in 1949, that being trombonist, Kid Ory, joining him for dates such as an AFRS radio broadcast of 'Kid Ory' yielding the likes of 'Wang Wang Blues' and 'Tuxedo Junction'. Glenn would see numerous sessions with Ory's Creole Jazz Band to July 17 of 1953 for titles that would eventually find issue on Ory's 'The Kid's Greatest!' in 1962.

'Ory's Boogie'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band

5 May 1951 in Pamona CA   Matrix LK230   Good Time Jazz 48

Trumpet: Teddy Buckner   Trombone: Ory   Clarinet: Joe Darensbourg

Bass: Morty Corb   Drums: Minoe Hall

Composition: Ory

'Boogie Woogie on St Louis Blues'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

C Dec 1952 in Los Angeles   Matrix LK230   SwingTime 311

Bass: Winston Williams   Drums: Earl Hyde

Composition: W.C. Handy

'Ballroom Shuffle'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

20 June 1956 in Los Angeles   Matrix MR2692   Aladdin 3327

Bass: Billy Hadnott   Drums: Bob Harvey

Composition: Glenn

'Southbound Special'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

20 June 1956 in Los Angeles   Matrix MR2694   Aladdin 3327

Bass: Billy Hadnott   Drums: Bob Harvey

Composition: Glenn

'Blue Ivories'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

20 June 1956 in Los Angeles   Matrix MR2695   Aladdin 3337

Bass: Billy Hadnott   Drums: Bob Harvey

Composition: Glenn

Another big name with whom Glenn had occasion to work was B.B. King. In 1960 he contributed to King's album, 'My Kind of Blues' with Ralph Hamilton at bass and Jessie Sailes on drums.

'You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w B.B. King (guitar / vocal)

1960   See the King album 'My Kind of Blues' on Crown Records 5188

Bass: Ralph Hamilton   Drums: Jessie Sailes

Composition: King / Joe Josea

Glenn spent the next couple decades doing session work and playing Los Angeles clubs. Sometime in 1977 he contributed piano to Big Joe Turner's 'The Things That I Used to Do' and 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter' for Spivey Records in dedication to Victoria Spivey. That same year he toured with Clarence Gatemouth Brown to Europe where they recorded the album, 'Heat Wave', on 15 July 1977 in Nice, France.

'Pinetop's Boogie Woogie'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

14 May 1974 in Paris   Matrix 74-166

See the album 'Old Time Shuffle' on Black & Blue 33077 / 1976

Bass: Roland Lobligeois   Drums: Panama Francis

Composition: Pinetop Smith

'After Hours'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) w the Lloyd Glenn Trio

Live in France sometime 1977

Bass: Milt Hinton

Composition: Avery Parrish   1940

'Heat Wave'  Lloyd Glenn (piano)

15 July 1977 in Nice, France   Matrix 77-230

See the album 'Heat Wave' on Black & Blue 33129 / 1977

Guitar: Clarence Brown   Bass: Milt Hinton   Drums: J.C. Heard

Composition: Glenn

Tom Lord's Jazzography traces Glenn's final album to 1 February 1982 when he documented 'Blue Ivories'. His last known recording was with guitarist, Evans Walker, in October of 1982, backing him on Baby Please'.

'Baby Please'  Lloyd Glenn (piano) backing Evans Walker (guitar / vocal)

Glenn's last-known recording

Oct 1982 in Los Angeles

See the album 'Pick Your Choice' on Shoe Label SL-1001 / 1983

Lloyd died of heart attack on May 3, 1985, in Los Angeles.

Compositions by Glenn:

Angora 1952
Conga Rhumba 1951
Cute-Tee 1951
First Take and Blue 1977
Heat Wave 1977
It Moves Me 1952
Jungle Jubilee 1951
Levee Blues 1949
Lover Call 1977
Low Society 1950
Old Time Shuffle 1974   Billboard R&B #3
Slow Train #1 1977
Slow Train Through Paris 1977
Still My Love Is Your
Wild Fire 1954