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| | Music in the Miller Mood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Glenn Miller’s focus was always on the entire orchestra, not on individual soloists—an emphasis that permanently estranged Miller from jazz purists and led jazz critics and musicians to debunk his music, then and now. |
 | | But Miller’s musicians, particularly in his Army Air Force (AAF) band or, as it later would be called in England, "The Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces," had as much room to improvise as musicians in other big bands of the era. |
 | | Miller’s AAF band was first-rate by any standards and included such outstanding sidemen as drummer Ray McKinley, saxophonist Hank Freeman, trumpeters 'Zeke' Zarchy and Bernie Privin, pianist Mel Powell, and vocalist Johnny Desmond, who moved to Chicago in 1948 to sing on Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club every weekday morning. |
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