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Rod Cless
Rod Cless is credited on 120 releases across 40 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2014 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
120
Pressings credited
40
Albums
7
Decades active
3
In collections
Biography
George Roderick Cless (May 20, 1907, in Lenox, Iowa – December 8, 1944, in New York City) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, perhaps best known for his work on sixteen Muggsy Spanier tunes for Bluebird Records. Additionally, Cless worked with other artists such as Frank Teschemacher, Gene Krupa, Art Hodes, Bobby Hackett, Max Kaminsky and Mezz Mezzrow.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
120 releases · 40 albums · active 1950–2014
- Performance · 201
- Other credits · 1
Studios: WOR Studios · WMGM Studios · Reeves Sound Studios · Apex Studios, New York
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
- Muggsy Spanier's Ragtime Band
- Art Hodes
- Muggsy Spanier
- Jack Teagarden
- Art Hodes And His Orchestra
- The James P. Johnson Quartet
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