Glenn Miller Orchestra

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Glenn Miller Orchestra's Bio: Under the direction of trombonist Larry O’Brien, this version of the Miller orchestra faithfully re-creates Miller’s vintage World War II hits and other material in the Miller style. The 17-piece orchestra — four trumpets, four trombones (five including leader O’Brien), five saxophones (two alto saxes, two tenor saxes, and a baritone sax), and a piano-bass-drums rhythm section — accurately duplicated the Miller band’s instrumentation and style.

Born in 1904, the myopic and seemingly mild-mannered Miller toiled in relative obscurity for close to two decades as a trombonist and arranger. His first big band failed, and he was 34 years old before his revamped orchestra finally hit it big. From 1939 to 1942, Miller and his band racked up eight million-selling records and 23 chart-toppers. In 1942, at the height of his success, Miller somehow wangled a captain’s commission in the Army Air Force despite the fact that he was well past the draft age. He formed a service band that played for the troops in Europe and made radio broadcasts. On Dec. 15, 1944, Miller, who had been promoted to major, boarded an airplane in England for a flight over the English Channel to France, where he planned to join up with his service band to play for the soldiers who had just liberated Paris. The plane never made it, and no trace of the crew, the passengers or the aircraft was ever found. Miller, whose status remains missing in action, was awarded the Bronze Star for his contributions to the war effort.

Despite Miller’s death, his music lives on and remains popular to this day with fans of big-band music. … Read more