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Glenn Miller: In the Mood (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 10, 07

During the Big Band era, jazz and America's popular music converged. Why? The answer's between your ankles and toes. ...

Glenn Miller: Moonlight Serenade (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

19th-century composers reoriented classical music around emotional appeal, dramatically expressing their innermost fe...

Glenn Miller: Bluebirds in the Moonlight (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Although "Bluebirds in the Moonlight" scoffs at its own title as a silly idea, some bluebirds are early risers, singi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Longo, Mike posted in Encyclopedia January 22, 08

Pianist Mike Longo may be best known as one of Dizzy Gillespie’s closest musical collaborators. But since he began hi...

Glenn Miller: Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

In ancient times, telephone prefixes were mnemonic, not numeric. PE 6-5000 in Manhattan, for example, rang up the Hot...

Fontana, Carl (Carl Charles Fontana) posted in Encyclopedia August 18, 09

Few trombonists have been able to convey the air of effortlessness in improvisation that was Carl Fontana's signatu...

Preston, Don (Donald Ward) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Don Preston may be best known as the keyboard player with Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention band, but is first and ...

Rivers, Sam (Samuel Carthorn) posted in Encyclopedia April 07, 08

Multiinstrumentalist and composer Sam Rivers has amassed a distinct and varied body of work linked by a devotion to i...

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