| Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician and band leader in the Swing era. One of his most famous pieces was 'In the Mood', probably the most well-known
recording of the style.
During the 1930's, Glenn Miller worked as a trombonist in several big bands, before forming his first band in 1937, but it failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era. Returning to New York after it broke up, at some point (Glenn Miller himself apparently could not recall exactly when) soon after he realised that his band's distinctive reed sound, formed by the clarinet and tenor saxophone playing the melody line with a number of other saxes harmonising, should be emphasised and that the sound might lift him above the crowd of other big bands of the era. |
