[78-L] Miller Music

[Royal Pemberton]

I'm glad you realise I wasn't bashing GM either (nor was my mom).  I
have heard some of the AAF band recordings too....that was an amazing
orchestra, as good as it gets!

On 4/8/09, David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I remember a chat I had with my mother about 10 years ago (she was
> born in 1923) about Miller's music.  She didn't care anything about it
> after all those years; actually she'd been burnt out on it for
> decades.   She said sure, Miller was good back in the day but so were
> others like Shaw, Herman, Goodman, Basie, and such like.   And their
> music got better as time went on, even as it got harder to find.  And
> still the old Miller stuff hung on, and on, and on....same old same
> old.  (Yawn.)   She was tired of it well before 1950.
> ------
>
> Don't want to get into a whole defense-of-Glenn thing here, but I've been
> listening to his music for more than 40 years and haven't tired of it yet.
>
> Of course, if Glenn had lived, I think his music would have changed and
> stayed fresh - even by 1942, he had de-emphasized the clarinet lead and was
> playing richer and more sophisticated charts.  And the AAF Band was a
> different animal entirely, fully modern and up-to-date.  The postwar GM Band
> under Tex Beneke retained the AAF sound, but as the years passed without
> real creative input, I think the "Miller Sound" devolved back to the reed
> trademark and the "boo-wah" brass.
>
> Dave W.
>
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