“Nowadays, people either know Glenn Miller by name or they recognize the songs, so the music has stood the test of time,” says Erik Stabnau, the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist and current bandl ...
It was Christmas Day, 1944, when people heard the news: Glenn Miller ... continues to perform Miller's songs for fans around the world. Joe Jackson is a former member of the Airmen of Note.
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 15, 1944, a single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, ...
But his star didn't fade. The Glenn Miller Story, a dramatization of his life starring Jimmy Stewart, was a box office smash in 1954. And while the Army Air Forces Band played its last concert in 1945 ...