Glenn Miller’s Method For Orchestral Arranging.

MILLER, Glenn.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 141030

New York: Mutual Music Society, 1943.

First edition of the great swing-era American jazz musician’s guide to orchestral arranging. Royal octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Sincerely Glenn Miller.” In very good condition.

American big band founder and composer Glenn Miller performed and recorded with his groups Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra before and during World War II, when Miller was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big band era and the best-selling recording band from 1939 to 1942. Their best-selling records include Miller's iconic theme song – "Moonlight Serenade" – and the first gold record ever made, "Chattanooga Choo Choo."