Lud Gluskin

Lud Gluskin, also known as Ludwig Grassnick, led a jazz and dance band in Europe during the late 1920s and early '30s. His recording output was enormous, and some say he waxed more than 700 sides during the height of his popularity. He was born Ludwig Elias Gluskin in New York City on December 16, 1898. By the mid-'20s, however, he was on European soil working as a drummer in French pit orchestras and dance bands, most memorably at Le Perroquet, a swank nightclub positioned above the Casino de Paris. In July 1927 the Playboys, a Chicago-style jazz band from Detroit led by vio...