Glenn Miller

Also known as Alton Glenn Miller, Alton Glen Miller

American band leader, arranger, and composer (1904–1944)

OverviewAI-generated

Glenn Miller was an American male musician whose career spanned from 1923 until his disappearance on December 15, 1944. He is associated with the jazz, swing, and big band genres, as well as vocal jazz. His musical output includes five works, and he has been recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

Miller’s music is frequently tagged with descriptors such as "40s" and "oldies." He has accumulated over one million plays and nearly one million listeners on Last.fm. Additionally, his name is referenced by 1,229 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1904-03-01
Active to: 1944-12-15

americanbig bandjazzswingvocal jazz

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 977,553
Total plays: 10,019,587

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,818x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,579x
Use of Dinitrosalicylic Acid Reagent for Determination of Reducing Sugar
· 1959 · cited 22,493x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,439x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Glenn
Family name: Miller
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Clarinda
Place of death: English Channel
Occupation: recording artist
Educated at: University of Colorado Boulder
Languages spoken: English language
Award: star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Instrument: trombone
Record label: RCA Records
Official website: www.glennmiller.org
Image: Glen miller.jpg

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P8168: Alexios Axouch
Commons category: Glenn Miller
manner of death: accidental death
date of birth: 1904-03-01
date of disappearance: 1944-12-15
date of death: 1944-02-15
cause of death: aviation accident
Commons gallery: Glenn Miller
start of work period: 1923-00-00
end of work period: 1944-12-15
name in native language: Glenn Miller
birth name: Alton Glenn Miller
member of: Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

Sources (10)

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Glenn Miller, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

I Grandi successi . Stardust ; Grandi canzoni americane / Glenn Miller & his Orchestra, Artie Shaw & his Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra ... [et al.]

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. His civilian band, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, was one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big-band era.

Glenn Miller and his Orchestra was the best-selling recording band from 1939 to 1942. Unlike his military unit, Miller's civilian band did not have a string section, but it did have a stand-up bass in the rhythm section. It was also a touring band that played multiple radio broadcasts nearly every day. Its best-selling records include Miller's theme song, "Moonlight Serenade", and the first gold record ever made, "Chattanooga Choo Choo", a song on the soundtrack of Miller's first film, Sun Valley Serenade, and the number-one song in the United States on December 7, 1941. The following tunes are also on that best-seller list: "In the Mood", "Pennsylvania 6-5000" (printed as "Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand" on record labels), "A String of Pearls", "Moonlight Cocktail", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", "Elmer's Tune", "Little Brown Jug", and "Anvil Chorus".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glenn Miller” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.