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Glenn Miller: Holiday Season Radio Broadcasts
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There's something about Glenn Miller's holiday broadcasts that seem timeless. Miller, of course, fronted two bands: His stateside orchestra from 1938 to early fall 1942 and then his Army Air Force Band from the late fall of 1942 to December 1944, when he perished over the English Channel flying from London to Paris. The latter band was more romantic and swinging, to keep nostalgia strong and spirits high. Both bands were oddly calming and comforting. Here's the stateside Glenn Miller ...
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Glenn Miller: Chesterfield Broadcasts, 1940-42
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you want to know what America's home front felt like during World War II, listen to Glenn Miller. I know that's an odd thing to say, but that's what an old timer told me one afternoon when my parents had a party at our house. I had mentioned my interest in the big bands, and that's what he said. It wasn't until several years later, in the late 1960s, when I was buying RCA double albums of the major ...
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World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Announces March Concert Line-Up From One For All’s Album Release Celebration To Leading Female Artists Allison Miller And Mary Stallings
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AMT Public Relations
Rated the #1 jazz club in New York City (Secret NYC), SMOKE Jazz Club welcomes both legendary and emerging jazz artists in March. The month begins with two of the great jazz artists of the past 50 years: pianist George Cables leads his Quartet (March 6-10) followed by tenor saxophonist George Coleman performing as special guest and influence of One of All’s new album Big George (March 14-17) on the club’s eponymous label SMOKE Sessions Records. Women’s History Month culminates ...
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Philadelphia-Based Vocalist and Songwriter Maci Miller Celebrates the Release of Her New Album, Nine, with Video of 'Love Me for Who I Am'
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DL Media
In the field of numerology, the number nine is connected to wisdom and experience. As Philadelphia-based vocalist Maci Miller writes in the liner notes for her new album, Nine, “The number nine is significant because it’s closely associated with the spirit, with spiritual growth, inner awakening and self-realization." Those qualities inspired Miller’s stunning new album, following a nearly decade-long hiatus to focus on adopting and raising her daughter, a period that certainly resulted in a wealth of personal growth and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mulgrew Miller
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Mulgrew Miller's birthday today!
Mulgrew Miller is an American jazz pianist born in 1955 in Greenwood, Mississippi. In a childhood filled with early musical experiences, mostly playing gospel music in his church and R&B and blues at dances. Mulgrew was constantly meddling in jazz piano, and established a trio in high school that would play cocktail parties. Miller admits that they didn't really know what they were doing and were merely “approaching jazz". Miller is ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Marcus Miller
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Miller's birthday today!
Marcus Miller, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2001, was born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York. He came from a musical family and was influenced early on by his father, a church organist and choir director, as well as his musical extended family (which included the extraordinary Wynton Kelly, jazz pianist for Miles Davis during the late fifties and early sixties!). ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Miller
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Miller's birthday today!
Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, in a small rural Southwestern Iowa town, a boy was born to Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller. The date was March 1, 1904 and the town was Clarinda. The boy that was born that night was named Alton Glen Miller (later changed to Glenn) and when he uttered his first cry, Clarinda heard Glenn Miller’s first “moonlight serenade." Glenn’s first serenade was not ...
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A Misty Night for Dan Miller
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Musician friends, family and friends, and students from near and far packed The Barrel Room at Twisted Vine Bistro in downtown Fort Myers on Thursday night, September 1, for a jazz night unlike any other the venue has seen. They were all there, standing room only through the first set, to celebrate the musical legacy of trumpeter and educator Dan Miller, who died unexpectedly on August 19 at age 53. The Barrel Room has been the Thursday night home for ...
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Dan Miller: A Life Well-Lived, And Then Some....
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Someone's impact on others is a more meaningful measure of a life well-lived than the number of years they spend on the planet. That notion was reinforced today when we received word that Dan Miller died unexpectedly yesterday (Friday, August 19). He was just 53. Dan was passionate about a lot of things—auto racing and other sports, fine food, and his family. Most of us knew him best through his many contributions to the world of jazz. He was a ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mulgrew Miller
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Mulgrew Miller's birthday today!
Mulgrew Miller is an American jazz pianist born in 1955 in Greenwood, Mississippi. In a childhood filled with early musical experiences, mostly playing gospel music in his church and R&B and blues at dances. Mulgrew was constantly meddling in jazz piano, and established a trio in high school that would play cocktail parties. Miller admits that they didn't really know what they were doing and were merely “approaching jazz". Miller is ...
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