Above the Clouds: An Interview with Dave Glasser

Jazz saxophonist Dave Glasser says that sound is an extension of yourself, your life, your person. Glasser’s influences are many and he has performed with the Clark Terry Quintet, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie All stars and others. His father, Ira Glasser, was head of the ACLU from 1978 to 2001 and Dave says that there is no better expression of freedom of speech than playing in a jazz band, where everybody is listening to each other and to the whole thing.

Glasser teaches Jazz at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and his most recent album is Above the Clouds.