“A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.” – Glenn Miller Alton Glenn Miller was born in Clarinda, Iowa on March 1, 1904. But it was in North Platte, Nebraska, ...

CU Boulder’s vast and historically valuable Glenn Miller collection is set to take the spotlight, thanks to a philanthropy-funded archiving project. In 1923, Alton Glen “Glenn” Miller attended CU ...

Nine years ago a band leader named Ben Pollack was drawing hot music’s purists to Chicago’s Southmoor Hotel. His band, a future who’s who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named ...

The Lee University Presidential Concert Series will continue its 33rd season with a performance by the acclaimed Glenn Miller Orchestra on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Pangle Hall. “We are ...

It started more than seven years ago with Oregon Coast Lab Band members learning the classic swing tune "In the Mood." Lab Band students have since studied big band swing music with an emphasis on the ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Miller's birthday today! Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, in a small rural Southwestern Iowa town, a boy was born to Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller.

The Glenn Miller Collection now has a dedicated archivist in the University Libraries whose job will be to review and catalog over 1,400 boxes of artifacts from the legendary big band era musician who ...