Glenn Crytzer Quartet: Vol. 5 of "The Songbook Sessions" Album Release

Musicians: Glenn Crytzer (guitar/leader), Mike Davis (trumpet), Ricky Alexander (reeds), Andrew Hall (bass).

Story:
During 2020 pandemic shutdowns, Glenn Crytzer and His Quartet formed
a "pod," converted a room of Glenn’s NYC apartment into a recording and
live streaming studio, and undertook an ambitious, fan-funded project:
recording 10 songs per week for 25 weeks, live in front of a streaming
audience. Each week the band researched songs from a different year,
beginning with 1920 and moving chronologically to 1944, seeking out
original sheet music and early recordings to inform their melodic and
harmonic decisions. The sessions not only provided income for the
musicians when there were no gigs to be found, but created a wonderful
online community of listeners who would tune in every Sunday.

Buzz from the Vol. 1 Release:

 “Glenn is such an ardent keeper of the flame, and as these performances reveal, he brings the music vividly to life - Bravo!”
- Loren Schoenberg, GRAMMY-winning author, Senior Scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem

 "['The Songbook Sessions' anthology] isn't a museum piece. This is living, breathing, swinging music that folks will still be enjoying a hundred years from today. More, please!”
- Ricky Riccardi, GRAMMY-winning author, historian, Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum

 

"This record is timeless. The solo improvisations bring back memories of Bix and of listening to Wild Bill Davidson, Pee Wee Russell and Ralph Sutton at my father's Jazz Club, while the guitar sets a seamless, solid rhythm that reminds me of my childhood listening to my dad, Eddie Condon, on his Gibson."
- Maggie Condon, daughter of Jazz Age guitarist and bandleader Eddie Condon