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New page: '''Alton Glenn Miller''' (1904-1944) was an American Big Band leader and trombonist who achieved celebrity in the 1930s and early 40s and died when the military aircraft on which h...
'''Alton Glenn Miller''' (1904-1944) was an [[American]] [[Big Band]] leader and trombonist who achieved celebrity in the 1930s and early 40s and died when the military aircraft on which he was travelling disappeared on 15 December 1944.
==Early Life==
Miller was born in [[Iowa]] but his family moved around the Mid-West and he was living in [[Missouri]] when he obtained his first trombone and became interested in dance music while at high school and then college in [[Colorado]]. He abandoned college to become a professional musician, touring with several bands, and working as a freelance trombonist and session musician, before forming his first band in 1937. A reformed band concentrated on a tight harmonic sound of clarinets and saxophones, and had major hits such as ''Tuxedo Junction'' and ''Chattanooga Choo-Choo''.
[[Category:Musicians]]
==Early Life==
Miller was born in [[Iowa]] but his family moved around the Mid-West and he was living in [[Missouri]] when he obtained his first trombone and became interested in dance music while at high school and then college in [[Colorado]]. He abandoned college to become a professional musician, touring with several bands, and working as a freelance trombonist and session musician, before forming his first band in 1937. A reformed band concentrated on a tight harmonic sound of clarinets and saxophones, and had major hits such as ''Tuxedo Junction'' and ''Chattanooga Choo-Choo''.
[[Category:Musicians]]