The great sound is because the band isn't in a studio. After all, it IS Carnegie Hall :) Listen to the quality of the Goodman concert, and that was almost 2 years earlier, picked up by a single mike above the band.
Only one little grumble - the video caption identifies one of the trumpeters as "Lee Knowls" - it's actually Legh (no "I") Knowles. He later left music and became famous as a vintner.
A tension-packed build-up starting at 1:54 preparing a trumpet that lets loose and swings like hasn't been heard since the beginning of time. Incredible.
What a surprisingly good recording considering that it was done in 1939. Excellent quailty.....thanks for posting it. Oh, I've been playing the saxophone for many years...but not quite like Tex ................sigh.
Thanks for finding this. I'm a big band aficionado, thought I knew everything but never realized Miller and his band appeared with three other bands at Carnegie Hall in 1939. A great find!
In the movie, The Glenn Miller Story, they implied he did not arrange Little Brown Jug like this until right before he was killed, and it was a surprise Christmas present for his wife, played posthumously on a special broadcast. Why does Hollywood have to mess up the facts?
That movie has always irritated me. The best way to take it is to think of it as a fictional film about somebody who happened to be named Glenn Miller and just happened to play all of the same tunes that the more famous Glenn Miller actually played.
Did play John Payne the piano?
charlesnorte 1 month ago
聽聽這首~多麼輕快的吉特巴舞步旋律演奏實是使我迷!
亦使我茫!!
tlbpabcxyz 8 months ago
The great sound is because the band isn't in a studio. After all, it IS Carnegie Hall :) Listen to the quality of the Goodman concert, and that was almost 2 years earlier, picked up by a single mike above the band.
Only one little grumble - the video caption identifies one of the trumpeters as "Lee Knowls" - it's actually Legh (no "I") Knowles. He later left music and became famous as a vintner.
Poisson4147 11 months ago
A tension-packed build-up starting at 1:54 preparing a trumpet that lets loose and swings like hasn't been heard since the beginning of time. Incredible.
billturgeon 1 year ago
What a surprisingly good recording considering that it was done in 1939. Excellent quailty.....thanks for posting it. Oh, I've been playing the saxophone for many years...but not quite like Tex ................sigh.
SpeedyNeutrino43 1 year ago
Thanks for finding this. I'm a big band aficionado, thought I knew everything but never realized Miller and his band appeared with three other bands at Carnegie Hall in 1939. A great find!
michaeljayklein 1 year ago
In the movie, The Glenn Miller Story, they implied he did not arrange Little Brown Jug like this until right before he was killed, and it was a surprise Christmas present for his wife, played posthumously on a special broadcast. Why does Hollywood have to mess up the facts?
pegcage 1 year ago 4
@pegcage
That movie has always irritated me. The best way to take it is to think of it as a fictional film about somebody who happened to be named Glenn Miller and just happened to play all of the same tunes that the more famous Glenn Miller actually played.
wadeharris65 11 months ago
I love this specific piece of Glenn Miller's.
Abriggs500 2 years ago
Tex is one of the best tenor saxes in history. Not only could he play lights out, but he could sing really well too.
banddude2009 3 years ago 9
@banddude2009 Agreed on Tex. Did Tex sing lead on GM hits like Chattanooga Choo Choo?
ChickaBoombox 6 months ago
swinging
beggsie123 3 years ago
普段聴いているものとすこしだけソロのところが違っているようですが、元気のい演奏ですね。
nonkig3 3 years ago
この曲は、有名なスタジオ録音よりもだいぶ活気のある演奏だと思います。
３人のソロの中ではリーダー自身のソロが一番保守的なフレーズなのが興味深いところですね。
konidolfine 3 years ago