Eddie Gladden


Eddie Gladden was an American jazz drummer.

Career

Gladden played professionally from 1962 in his hometown of Newark. In 1972 he began working with James Moody. During the rest of his career he worked with Eddie Jefferson, Richie Cole, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, David Fathead Newman, Larry Young, Freddie Roach, Jimmy McGriff, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Kirk Lightsey, Clifford Jordan, Albert Dailey, Jimmy Ponder, Shirley Scott, and Mickey Tucker, among others. He played in Dexter Gordon's quartet from 1977, touring and recording.
He died of a heart attack in Newark at the age of 65. Gladden never recorded as a session leader.

Discography

As sideman

With Richie ColeNew York Afternoon Alto Madness Keeper of the Flame
With Dexter GordonGreat Encounters Manhattan Symphonie American Classic Nights at the Keystone Nights at the Keystone Volume 1 Nights at the Keystone Volume 2 Nights at the Keystone Volume 3 Sophisticated Giant Ballads More Than You Know 1981
With Eddie JeffersonThings Are Getting Better Still on the Planet The Live-Liest
With Kirk LightseyIsotope Everything Happens to Me Kirk 'n Marcus Everything Is Changed First Affairs Temptation
With James MoodyNever Again! Timeless Aura Sun Journey
With John PattonBlue Planet Man This One's for Ja
With Freddie RoachMocha Motion! My People (Soul People)
With Mickey TuckerThe New Heritage Keyboard Quartet Triplicity Sojourn Mister Mysterious Mister Mysterious Theme for a Woogie-Boogie
With Larry YoungContrasts Heaven on Earth Mother Ship
With others