Play Trombone Today DVD

Advantages: Real music
Disadvantages: None

...One of the few things in this world capable of dragging me away from the keyboard apart from the need to sleep and eat was the showing of The Glen Miller Story on ITV on Sunday. The Benny Goodman Story, The Al Jolson Story and The Great Caruso are three others of a very limited list. Starring James Stewart and June Allyson and supported by Henry Morgan (of MASH fame) this purports to be the story of how the Glen Miller Orchestra became famous world wide. O.K. so it dramatised things quite a bit but essentially it sort of followed his life. However they couldn't "fake" the music and the "sound". That was real and a treat to hear. James Stewart was the ideal person to play Glen Miller as he had more than just a passing resemblance to the trombone player and June Allyson, with her slightly husky voice, sent many a young man... Read review

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Advantages: Great film
Disadvantages: Not a single one

...jazz. They were made for playing the trombone. The use of a trad band really makes the film what it is and when things get hot you cannot but help tapping your feet to the rhythm. If there was one film to have over Xmas this is it.... Read review

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Advantages: The Music, Glenn Miller, James Stewart
Disadvantages: Too nice

...The Glenn Miller Story was made by Universal International Pictures in 1954 just ten years after his tragic and mysterious death. The film is a biopic of the bandleaders life, focusing on his musical career. Starting from his early aspirations to become a musician as a travelling trombone player, the film progresses through Miller’s quest to find his own distinctive signature sound, his marriage, his meteoric success as America's favourite bandleader to his patriotic sacrifice by enlisting in the army to entertain the troops and boulster morale. This Film has been digitally remastered for DVD to improve picture and sound qualities with a Anamorphic WideScreen that automatically adjust to your tv picture size. The DVD was released on 4th March 2004 and runs for 115 minutes. There are no extras. The film is completely enjoyable. Miller... Read review

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