the Glenn Miller Orchestra. 2. Miller’s Famous Trombone Was Not His First Instrument Miller grew up in a very musical family, with his mother an organist and older brother Deane playing the cornet.

Alton Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26, HonDocHum’84) spent three semesters at the University of Colorado before pawning his college trombone for a bus ticket to Los Angeles. While enrolled at CU, he met his ...

Alton Glenn Miller was born and spent his early years ... but it wasn’t long until he changed his focus to trombone. Glenn practiced his old battered horn so much his mother began to worry ...

Larry O’Brien was the internationally renowned musical director and leader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1981-1983 and 1988-2010. He is a native of Jamaica, New York. A significant American jazz ...

The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired ...