The Very Best Of Glenn Miller

Posted by: TomK on 11 June 2010

Has anybody heard this new collection of remastered tracks? They're all seventy or so years old, so not surprisingly the sound quality is slightly variable but it's often staggeringly good. Much better than I've ever heard music from this era sound. And the band swings like nobody else ever did. It's just wonderful stuff.
It reminds me of Saturday afternoons in the Amphora on Sauchiehall Street in the seventies when what seemed like all the musicians in Glasgow would turn up for a big band jam session. I couldn't believe the power an unamplified brass section could generate.

Anybody with even a passing interest in this sort of music should check it out.
Posted on: 11 June 2010 by Sloop John B
but then again you like the "Exile on Main Street" re-master Winker



SJB
Posted on: 11 June 2010 by TomK
I knew somebody would comment on these remasters not being as good as the 78s played on my grannies gramophone, especially just after she'd sharpened the needle using a bit of emery cloth.

This'll almost do.

Big Grin
Posted on: 11 June 2010 by Blueknowz
I grew up listening to my Gran's 78 Glen Miller records & mums LPs,even now the only thing that dates most of them is the Andrews Sisters vocal.

Posted on: 11 June 2010 by u5227470736789439
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Originally posted by TomK:
I knew somebody would comment on these remasters not being as good as the 78s played on my grannies gramophone, especially just after she'd sharpened the needle using a bit of emery cloth.

This'll almost do.


If the transfers are from the original master parts then they have the potential to be far finer than any commercial 78 disc sold to the public ...

ATB from George
Posted on: 11 June 2010 by TomK
George I'd love to hear what you think. Until now for me Glenn Miller was wonderful hissy crackly 78s played as a kid on my parents ancient gramophone but I felt I was hearing something special tonight.
Posted on: 14 June 2010 by mudwolf
Glenn Miller is something special. I've always loved big band. My dad danced to them in Hartford before ww2. That must have been a great experience. Mom always said dad could make any woman look good out on the dance floor. Tho He told me a couple years ago he thought Duke Ellington was the best of all.