Glenn Crytzer

The Glenn Crytzer Orchestra (and small combos comprising members of the orchestra) is the world’s premiere ensemble presenting the authentic sounds of the Jazz Age and Swing Era. Ensembles range in size from the full-sized orchestra (25 pieces) or big band (17 pieces) to small combos from 2-8 members.

Big band and American Songbook classics from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s performed authentically to the sound of the period.

The GCO and its subsidiary combos have performed at venues across the US at public, private, and corporate events including performances at venues like the Lincoln Center, the Rainbow Room, The Marriot Marquis, the Hilton Midtown, the Plaza Hotel, Steel Stacks, the Patchogue Theater, the Sidney and Berne Davis Arts Center, the Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center, the Glen Echo Ballroom, Pegu Club, the University Club, the Players Club, the Harmonie Club, the Metropolitan Club, and many more.

They were named Best Group in the 2017 NYC Jazz Awards and their 2019 holiday album, Underneath the Mistletoe, made Rolling Stone’s list of notable Christmas albums that year. Their recordings have been licensed more than 100 times for TV, Film, Podcast, Advertising, and Video Games including Detective Pikachu (Warner Brothers), Pretty Little Liars and Agent Carter (ABC), The Valet (Hulu), Christopher Robin (Disney), Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix), Bomb Girls (CBC), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Australian Broadcasting Corp), Freakonomics, Facebook, Ancestry.com, and many more.

Our big band book includes more than 200 big band classics by artists like Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey, etc.

Our small group repertoire consists of over 1000 American Songbook Classics by composers like George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and others.

Music Type:

Covers of well known songs

Original music

Live Music

Main Music Style:

Jazz – Swing

All Music Styles:

Jazz – Swing, Tribute (decade/impersonator)

Tribute to:

1920s, 1930s, 1940s

Performance language(s):

English

Size options:

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10+ musician(s)

Vocal options:

MaIe Singer, Female Singer, No Singing (Instrumental Music)

Instrument options:

Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Cello, Clarinet / Oboe / Bassoon, Double Bass, Drums, Electric Guitar, Flute, Harp, Keyboard – Piano, Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet, Viola, Violin / Fiddle