Glen Gray
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Glenn Gray Knoblauch , known professionally as Glen Gray, was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra. Early years Gray was born to Lurdie P. and Agnes Knoblauch in Roanoke, Illinois, United States. His father was a saloon keeper and railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. He had an older sister. His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde, a coal miner, and moved her family to Roanoke. Gray graduated from Roanoke High School, in 1917 where he played basketball and acquired his nickname, "Spike".
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