Glenn Miller’s Biography, Career, and Legacy.
The name of Glenn Miller is one of those that deeply resonates in the world of jazz and swing. He entered history as a bandleader, big band conductor, and talented trombonist who recorded music before and during World War II. As a musician, he also left a notable mark on music of the Big Band era of the s and s. In this article, we will explore the key moments of Glenn Miller’s life and career.
Early Life and Creative Beginnings
Alton Glenn Miller was born on March 1, , in Clarinda, Iowa, USA, and was the second child of four in the family. Surrounded by the music of his mother, who played an organ and the sound of cornet played by his older brother, Miller showed an interest in music from an early age. However, his first musical instrument wasn't a trombone. Miller started by playing a mandolin, and later switched to the trombone. His first trombone was an old instrument, which was enough for him to practice. After a local businessman offered Miller a new instrument, he joined his older brother in the community band. Since that time, the trombone became Miller’s musical instrument number one and remained so until his last da
&#; -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
&#;Miller led one of the most popular and best-remembered dance bands of the swing era. In his lifetime he was seen as an intense, ambitious perfectionist, and his success was built on the precise playing of carefully crafted arrangements, rather than propulsive swing or fine jazz solo improvisation (his only important jazz soloist was Bobby Hackett). He was particularly noted for the device of doubling a melody on saxophone with a clarinet an octave higher. His arrangements were seamless and rich. Paradoxically, however, although he had many hits with sentimental ballads performed by such singers as Ray Eberle and Marion Hutton, it was his swinging riff tunes, for example In the Mood and Tuxedo Junction, which became. In he published Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging.&#;
- Charles De Ledesma, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
The Glenn Miller Years II
July
Jazzletter
Gene Lees
&#;The Pollack band was booked to play at the Little Club on 44th Street in New York, and opened there in March Bud Freeman years later recalled that the band's personnel at that time included himself, Gil Rodin, and
| |||||||||