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Zdroj: Wikipedia. Stranky: 55. Kapitoly: Jaco Pastorius, Glenn Miller, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Allen, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Natalie Coleova, Ella Fitzgeraldova, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Wes Montgomery, Billie Holiday, Norah Jones, Jimmy Smith, Bill Evans, Al Di Meola, Horace Silver, Henry Mancini, Nat King Cole, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Frank Zappa, Ray Charles, Benny Goodman, McCoy Tyner, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, Charlie Parker, George Benson, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Joey DeFrancesco, Mahalia Jackson, Captain Beefheart, Wynton Marsalis, Herb Ellis, Count Basie, Les Paul, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cassandra Wilsonova, Louis Prima, Marcus Miller, Mike Stern, Kenny Garrett, Quincy Jones, Jack Teagarden, Chick Corea, Donald Byrd, Roberta Flack, Eric Dolphy, Grover Washington, Jr., Brian Bromberg, Christian Scott, Art Blakey, Keith Jarrett, Sonny Rollins, Tommy Dorsey, John Abercrombie, Coleman Hawkins, Ron Affif, Mousey Alexander, James Genus. Vy atek: Alton Glenn Miller (1. b ezna 1904, Clarinda, Iowa - z ejm 15. prosince 1944), byl americky jazzovy hudebnik, kapelnik a pozounista, pozd j i vyznamny kapelnik big bandu swingove ery. Mezi lety 1939 a 1942 byly jeho desky jedn mi z nejlepe prodavanych. Mezi Millerovy nejznam j i nahravky pat i jazzove standardy In the Mood, Tuxedo Junction, Chattanooga Choo Choo, M si ni serenada, Little Brown Jug, American Patrol, Elmer's Tune, A String Of Pearls a Pennsylvania 6-5000. Jeho letoun zmizel beze stop b hem 2. sv tove valky za patneho po asi p i letu do Francie, kam jel bavit americke vojaky. Jeho t lo nebylo nikdy nalezeno. Narodil se v Clarind v Iow 1. b ezna 1904 jako syn Mattie Lou a Lewise Elmera Millera. Na zakladni kolu chodil v North Platte v Nebrasce. V roce 1915 se jeho rodina p est hovala do Grant City v Missouri. N kdy v te dob dostal sv j prvni pozoun a hral pak v m...
