Eddie_Gladden

Eddie Gladden

Eddie Gladden

American drummer

Eddie Gladden (December 6, 1937 – September 30, 2003) was an American jazz drummer.

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Career

Gladden played professionally from 1962 in his hometown of Newark. In 1972 he began working with James Moody. During the rest of his career he worked with Eddie Jefferson, Richie Cole, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, David Fathead Newman, Larry Young, Freddie Roach, Jimmy McGriff, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Kirk Lightsey, Clifford Jordan, Albert Dailey, Jimmy Ponder, Shirley Scott, and Mickey Tucker, among others. He played in Dexter Gordon's quartet from 1977, touring and recording.

He died of a heart attack in Newark at the age of 65.[1] Gladden never recorded as a session leader.

Discography

As sideman

With Richie Cole

With Dexter Gordon

  • Great Encounters (Columbia, 1978)
  • Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia, 1978)
  • American Classic (Elektra Musician 1982)
  • Nights at the Keystone (Blue Note, 1985)
  • Nights at the Keystone Volume 1 (Blue Note, 1990)
  • Nights at the Keystone Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1990)
  • Nights at the Keystone Volume 3 (Blue Note, 1990)
  • Sophisticated Giant (Columbia, 1990)
  • Ballads (Blue Note, 1991)

With Eddie Jefferson

With Kirk Lightsey

With James Moody

  • Never Again! (Muse, 1972)
  • Timeless Aura (Vanguard, 1976)
  • Sun Journey (Vanguard, 1976)

With John Patton

With Freddie Roach

With Mickey Tucker

With Larry Young

With others

References

  1. [1]
    "Daily Dose of Jazz". 6 December 2014.
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