Butler native's song featured in new movie
A song by bandleader and Butler native Glenn Crytzer is featured in the “Christopher Robin” film coming to theaters Friday.
Crytzer's original song “Could This Be Love?” that appears on his album “Uptown Jump” will be featured in the new Disney movie.
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Uptown Jump by Glenn Crytzer's Savoy Seven[/naviga:iframe]Crytzer is a New York City-based bandleader, arranger, composer, guitarist, and vocalist, but before all that he graduated from Butler High School in 1999.His biography says that while he was completing his formal training in classical composition and cello at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Florida State University, he took up dancing the Lindy Hop as a hobby, spurring his love of early jazz.He taught himself guitar, banjo and jazz arranging to bring to life the music he loved.The Glenn Crytzer Orchestra specializes in the music of the 1920s, '30s and '40s.He has released two albums with his sextet, The Syncopators, and three more with the expanded version of this group, The Savoy Seven.His quartet, The Glenn Crytzer All-Stars, performs weekly in New York City, and his other groups, ranging from three to eight musicians, have entertained audiences from coast to coast, according to his Website.He has released eight albums with his big band and combos, and dozens of his recordings have been featured in films and TV shows seeking to evoke the sound of the golden age of radio.In 2017 his big band was named Best Group in New York in the NYC Jazz Awards.He and The Syncopators came back to Butler for a show at Butler High School in 2011.
