Ludwig Gluskin

American jazz drummer and bandleader, nicknamed "Lud", born December 16, 1898 (in Russia?); died October 13, 1989. Played in dance bands in France in the mid-1920s. In 1927 he assumed leadership of the Playboys, a jazz band from Detroit that was stranded in Paris. This band formed the nucleus of Gluskin's own orchestra, which toured Europe 1928-1933 and made more than 700 recordings in Paris and Berlin. Gluskin then returned to USA, organized a sweet society band (Lud Gluskin And His Continental Orchestra) and performed frequently on radio. Appointed director of music at CBS in Hollywood in 1937.