All posts by Glenn Zottola
Secret Love
This was a very special album with my daughter Christine on the front cover. I moved from Manhattan to Connecticut and didn’t want to travel so much anymore so I could spend more time at home with the family. It was a period of tremendous expansion as i started my own production company and teamed up with Bobby Rosengarden and went into the Rainbow Room in NY with my own Big band a first Continue reading
The Music of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
This was a great project for Bob Wilber. Recreation of the historic King Oliver Creole Band that made Louis Armstrong a star. Another very interesting point was my older brother Bob who i always very much looked up to as a trumpet player and artist in a similar way to how Louie looked up to the older King Oliver did this project with me. On this album Bob played all King Oliver’s parts and i played Continue reading
A Swinging Case of Masso-ism
I had a ball doing this album with George. We did a lot of albums together for Famous Door Records and many jazz festivals. George is on my Secret Love album and played and wrote the arrangements for my Christmas Album. One of the truly great trombone players and great guy !
Steamin’ Mainstream
This was a quartet i put together with some of my favorite players and one of my favorite bands. I booked a 5 night a week jazz gig and then recorded a live album. That was the end of the band and we moved seperate ways Harold Danko doing his own band and Butch and I joining Bob Wilber. Great quartet and can you believe Butch singing like this and playing at the same time wow ! The Continue reading
On the Road
Traveling in Europe with the Bechet Legacy we recorded this album at the Strawberry Studio’s in Stockport, England where Paul McCartney and others recorded. The Studio was names after the Beatles song “Strawberry Fields Forever”. Continue reading
Live at Eddie Condon’s
This was my first album recorded under my own name. I picked some of my favorite players I had played with prior and had a rapport. The band never played together as a unit and there was no rehearsal for the album. I just went in with a set list like i do a jazz gig and called of tunes. Pretty amazing result ! Enjoy
Butch Miles Swings Some Standards
More Butch and more swingin’ from a great band with arrangements by Jorge Anders!! Continue reading
The Mouse Roars!
This was my very first real pro jazz session for Famous Door Records. I was a “kid” and had just arrived in NYC and was playing at a jazz club “Eddie Condon’s” on 52nd st. with John Bunch and Mousey Alexander when Record Producer Harry Lim who had quite a stellar history from Mercury Records and recorded many legends started his own label Famous Door Records and walked in the club. Continue reading
Butch Miles Salutes Chick Webb
This was one of my early albums for Famous Door. Butch Miles is a totally amazing drummer with so many wonderful influences. Chick Webbs band was one of the most swinging bands happening and they would challenge any band in the famous Savoy ballroom. Eddie Barefield on tenor who was in Chick’s band brought in these arrangements. The great Milt Hinton on bass and Norris Turney who Continue reading
Glenn Zottola on the Ted Mack Show at 13 years old
This is where it all started as far as the big time on national TV and it is amazing 30 years later I found myself full circle after doing everything in music from Broadway , Carnegie Hall and travelling the world as a jazz player and recording back on TV as Bandleader on the Suzanne Somers show at Universal Studios. This was a great experience and the show was the American Idol of its day and many acts like Sinatra and Johnny Mathis came through this show. I toured for a year with the show after becoming a 3 time winner and then played Madison Square Garden for 150,000 people in the final playoff. I guess I peaked early and don’t know if I could hit that high note today unless I had some Geritol that you see in the backround as I was playing ! What a wild life and I wouldnt trade a minute of it. Glenn
