Martha Glaser

Producer. 1921 - 2014 Aide-de-Camp to Erroll Garner between 1950-1957 Martha was the first woman to work in the field of human rights during the early days of fighting segregation in Detroit and Chicago in the early 1940’s. She was the first to initiate anti-segregation concerts to fight white supremacy and build bridges in Chicago at the height of some of the worst outbreaks of racial strife in the 1940’s. Martha planted the idea of anti-segregation into Norman Granz’s productions which would later become the Jazz for Justice concerts throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s. She was an advocate, manager, and friend to Erroll Garner for over 25 years. Together they pioneered for artists’ rights, for creative control of the music, and for ending the “all night playing” in clubs that exploited artists, which launched the beginning of “sets.”