Seasonal Selections Bandleader, Butler grad releases new 20-song album
Recently released is a new album by bandleader and Butler native Glenn Crytzer.
“Underneath the Mistletoe” features 20 songs, and Crytzer is responsible for the music direction and arrangements on all of them.
The album is available now online and in CD format. Visit www.glenncrytzer.com/underneath-the-mistletoe and listen for “Over the River and Through the Wood,” “I’m Sorry Santa Claus,” “Deck the Halls” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Last year, Crytzer had his original song “Could This Be Love?” featured in Disney’s “Christopher Robin” movie.
Crytzer, a 1999 Butler High School graduate, is a New York City-based bandleader, arranger, composer, guitarist, and vocalist.
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 other albums with his sextet, The Syncopators, and even more with the expanded version of this group, The Savoy Seven.
His quartet, The Glenn Crytzer All-Stars, performs 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 also released 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.
