Rabbi Bob Gluck

Pianist/composer and writer, Rabbi Bob Gluck is a Professor at the University at Albany. He is the author of two books published by University of Chicago Press, most recently “The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles” (2016). His ten recordings include “Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band,” with Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson & Chris Sullivan (FMR Records, 2016). Gluck is a former executive director of the RRA and pulpit rabbi. He staffed the Joint Reconstructionist Commission on Homosexuality 1990-93 and edited the Commission’s report and study guide. He also chaired the 1995 Kehillah Mekabelet (Welcoming Communities) Task Force of the Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot.

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