Hal Glatzer

Hal Glatzer is a rhythm guitarist and vocalist who performs the Great American Songbook in New York and in Europe. He is also a journalist whose articles and profiles have run in Frets and Acoustic Guitar magazines. Hal Glatzer has numerous published works of fiction and non-fiction. While living in San Francisco, he became an officer of the Art Deco Society of California. Visit him online at halglatzer.com.

Andy Stein: Renaissance, Rock, Schubert, and the Nighthawks

Hal Glatzer September 29, 2025

Andy Stein will never forget that day in 1979. “I was walking through a street fair in New York and heard the Manhattan Rhythm Kings

Sydney Leff and the Art of Sheet Music Illustration

Hal Glatzer October 31, 2022

Songs are hits, today, because so many people hear them. Songs used to be hits because so many people played and sang them. But in

Hal Glatzer

Andy Stein: Renaissance, Rock, Schubert, and the Nighthawks

Sydney Leff and the Art of Sheet Music Illustration

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