Eddie Gladden
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Eddie Gladden was an American jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 drummer.

Gladden played professionally from 1962 in his hometown of Newark. In 1972 he began working with James Moody
James Moody (saxophonist)
James Moody was an American jazz saxophone and flute player. He was best known for his hit "Moody's Mood for Love," an improvisation based on "I'm in the Mood for Love"; in performance, he often improvised vocals for the tune.-Biography:James Moody was born in Savannah, Georgia...

, and subsequently spent time performing and/or recording with Eddie Jefferson
Eddie Jefferson
Eddie Jefferson was a celebrated jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Perhaps his best-known song is "Moody's Mood for Love", though it was first recorded by King Pleasure, who cited...

, Richie Cole
Richie Cole (musician)
Richie Cole is a jazz alto saxophonist composer and arranger born in Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. and is a graduate of Ewing High School, Ewing New Jersey....

, Cecil Payne
Cecil Payne
Cecil Payne was a jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn, NY. Payne also played the alto saxophone and flute...

, Horace Silver
Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

, David Fathead Newman, Larry Young, Freddie Roach
Freddie Roach (organist)
See Freddie Roach for the boxer.Freddie Roach is a soul jazz Hammond B3 organist born in the Bronx, New York. He was one of a handful of legendary jazz organists that made history in the 1960s, the golden era of the Hammond organ...

, Jimmy McGriff
Jimmy McGriff
James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:...

, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Kirk Lightsey
Kirk Lightsey
Kirkland "Kirk" Lightsey is an American jazz pianist.Lightsey had piano instruction from age five and studied piano and clarinet through high school. After service in the Army, Lightsey worked in Detroit and California in the 1960s as an accompanist to singers...

, Clifford Jordan
Clifford Jordan
Clifford Laconia Jordan was a jazz saxophone player. While in Chicago, he performed with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some rhythm and blues groups. He moved to New York City in 1957, after which he recorded three albums for Blue Note. He also recorded with Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Kenny...

, Albert Dailey
Albert Dailey
Albert Dailey was an American jazz pianist.Dailey's first professional appearances were with the house band of the Baltimore Royal Theater in the early 1950s. Later in the decade he studied at Morgan State University and the Peabody Conservatory...

, Jimmy Ponder
Jimmy Ponder
Jimmy Ponder is an American jazz guitarist.Ponder started playing guitar at age 14, and was heavily influenced by Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell. He began playing with Charles Earland at 17, and in the following years played with Lou Donaldson, Houston Person, Donald Byrd, Stanley Turrentine,...

, Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was most known for working with her husband, Stanley Turrentine, and with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis...

, and Mickey Tucker
Mickey Tucker
Mickey Tucker is an American jazz pianist and organist.Tucker began on piano at age six, and played in church when young. He did studio work in the 1960s with R&B musicians such as Little Anthony & the Imperials and Damita Jo; he accompanied comedian Timmy Rogers...

, among others. He played in Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...

's quartet from 1977, touring and recording with him copiously.

As Sideman

With Ronnie Cuber
Ronnie Cuber
Ronnie Cuber is a jazz saxophonist. He has also played in Latin, pop, rock and blues sessions. In addition to his primary instrument, baritone sax, he has also played tenor sax, soprano sax and flute, the latter on an album by Eddie Palmieri. As a leader, Cuber is known for hard bop and Latin jazz...

  • The Eleventh Day of Aquarius
    The Eleventh Day of Aquarius
    The Eleventh Day Of Aquarius is a jazz album by baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber, recorded in 1978 and released in 1979 for Xanadu Records.-Track listing:#Klepto #Open Air #Sunburst #Taurus Lullaby #Commit To Memory...

    (Xanadu, 1979)

With John Patton
John Patton (musician)
John Patton , sometimes nicknamed Big John Patton, was a hard bop and soul jazz organist....

  • Blue Planet Man
    Blue Planet Man
    Blue Planet Man is a 1993 album by organist Big John Patton which features John Zorn. It was originally released on King Records/Paddle Wheel Records in Japan in 1993 and subsequently released in the USA on Evidence Records in 1997.-Reception:...

    (King, 1993)
  • This One's for Ja
    This One's for Ja
    This One's for Ja is an album by American organist John Patton recorded in 1996 and released on the Japanese DIW label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 3½ stars and stated "Patton has made one of the rare comebacks in jazz, one that does justice to his...

    (DIW, 1996)

With John Stubblefield
John Stubblefield
John Stubblefield was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist.Stubblefield was an adaptable musician; he was stationed with the World Saxophone Quartet , Reggie Workman , McCoy Tyner , Freddie Hubbard , and George Russell .-As leader:* Prelude with Onaje Allan Gumbs, Cecil McBee, Joe...

  • Confessin'
    Confessin' (album)
    Confessin' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist John Stubblefield recorded in 1984 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:...

    (Soul Note, 1984)

With Mickey Tucker
Mickey Tucker
Mickey Tucker is an American jazz pianist and organist.Tucker began on piano at age six, and played in church when young. He did studio work in the 1960s with R&B musicians such as Little Anthony & the Imperials and Damita Jo; he accompanied comedian Timmy Rogers...

 and Roland Hanna
Roland Hanna
Roland Hanna was an American Jazz pianist.Hanna studied classical piano as a boy, but was strongly interested in jazz. This increased after his time in military service.He studied at Eastman School of Music and Juilliard School...

  • The New Heritage Keyboard Quartet
    The New Heritage Keyboard Quartet
    The New Heritage Keyboard Quartet is an album by American jazz keyboardists Roland Hanna and Mickey Tucker recorded in 1973 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars.-Track listing:...

    (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records
    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

    , 1973)

With Larry Young
  • Contrasts
    Contrasts (Larry Young album)
    Contrasts is an album by American organist Larry Young recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The adventurous music is sometimes quite intense but also grooves in its own eccentric way, offering...

    (Blue Note, 1967)
  • Heaven on Earth
    Heaven on Earth (Larry Young album)
    Heaven on Earth is an album by American organist Larry Young recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Organist Larry Young, who really found his own sound back in 1965 with the classic Unity album, is...

    (Blue Note, 1968)
  • Mother Ship
    Mother Ship
    Mother Ship is an album by American organist Larry Young recorded in 1969 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1980.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "This highly original set does not deserve to be so obscure".-Track listing:# "Mother Ship"...

    (Blue Note, 1969 - released 1980)
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