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For Hank's 100th
Writing about Henry Mancini is both easy and hard - easy because he was wonderfully talented and his art permeated world culture, hard because much of…
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Jeffrey Sultanof
An Adventure in Printed Music - Linda Ronstadt
For Andrew Homzy
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Selected Miller Performances Pt. 2
The band continued to refine its sound until the end. Here is a broadcast of “I Don’t Want to Walk Without You” with Skip Nelson vocalizing. The…
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Selected Miller performances Pt. 1
As I wrote earlier, Miller is known to the general public for “In the Mood,” “Tuxedo Junction,” etc., etc., but the band had far greater range than…
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Glenn Miller - The Post-war Years
Miller’s disappearance was devastating not only to his family, but to his many fans. The AEF ensemble disbanded after the war, but a new Glenn Miller…
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Clarifications by Dennis M. Spragg
As many of you know, I’ve been posting these articles to the Glenn Miller Collections, a private group on Facebook, which is where I’ve gotten new…
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Glenn Miller - The Army Air Force Band
In Memory of Ed Polic
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March 2024

Subscriber posts
I have had some new paying subscribers, and you will receive a posting which includes selected Glenn Miller tracks you may not be aware of, plus some…
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Glenn Miller - Part 2
Taking his cue from Jimmie Lunceford’s very popular band, Miller was heavily into showmanship, which the musicians hated, but made his a popular…
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Glenn Miller, and a New CD set
Note: I want to thank Dave Smith who supplied additional information to clarify certain things in this first article on Miller. It has been revised. I…
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Readers - Gerry Mulligan and Bill Evans
I salute Steven Cerra, drummer and writer, who has self-published two extraordinary volumes on Gerry Mulligan and Bill Evans. Cerra, who continues…
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Steve Lawrence R.I.P
It is with sadness that I write about Steve Lawrence, an important singer and part of one of the great singing duos of the 20th Century. Eydie Gorme was…
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