Glen Gray Knoblauch, known as Glen Gray, (June 7,1900 - Aug.23,1963, Plymouth, Massachusetts)

was a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.

Gray was born Metamora, Illinois. When he was 13 years old, Gray organized a group known as Spike's Jazz Band.

Gray graduated from Roanoke High School. He is said to have joined the army at seventeen and two years later he was living at home with his family. He was employed as a bill clerk for the railroad. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University but left to work for the Santa Fe Railroad.

In 1927, his Orange Blossoms Band was renamed the Casa Loma Orchestra, after Casa Loma in Toronto, where the band played for eight months. Gray collaborated with the jazz musician Jean Goldkette and with trumpeter/arranger Salvador Camarata.


Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra - Blue moon (1935)