Klarinet Archive - Posting 000491.txt from 1997/03

From: Gary Van Cott <Gary_VanCott@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Glenn Miller Band (was No Subject)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 22:02:40 -0500

Gary VanCott = NHIN
03/14/97 04:23 PM

Thomas wrote
Yes indeed he did play trombone but his reed section was always led with a
clarinet, not by him per se.

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Always ? I don't think so. I know they made a big (and apparently
fictitious) deal over this in the movie the Glenn Miller Story. Of course,
there is a clarinet lead in Moonlight Serenade. But in years past I
listened to a lot of Miller recordings (when I should have been listening
to Kell, I suppose) and I don't think the clarinet lead is all that common,
probably less than 25 percent of his charts. Maybe a lot less.

Gary
Las Vegas, NV