"David Looser" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:13:19 +0200, Iain Churches wrote:

Only an old valve Neumann looks cooler!

Did they have 'cool' in Glen Miller's day? ;-)

Glenn Miller wasn't cool,

Says who?

To answer a question with a question:
Do you think he was "cool" David?

It's all relative I suppose. Compared with Ellington,
Basie, Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker. Dizzie Gillespie,
Thelonious Monk, and a huge number of others,
Miller was definately not "cool".

Even in his day his music, was was regarded
as "predictably glitzy" ) But then again, nothing succeeds
like success, and the clinking of the cash register is
music to one and all:-)

When I worked for RCA there was an old
good-news/bad news joke which went:

The good news is that Elvis is dead. The record presses
are running 24/7 to keep up with the demand.

The bad news is that Glenn Miller's plane has just landed.
He wants his royalties.

Many who know about Miller both as a player and an
arranger think he was at his finest when playing with
Ray Noble.

But the film is fun, and James Stewart fills the role of
Glenn Miller well, even if they get the concept of the
"Miller Sound" totally wrong. It probably doesn't do
to try to keep to the facts when writing a good script:-)

If you listen to his arrangements for Ray Noble and the
Dorsey Brothers, you will hear how the Miller sound
really evolved.



Iain