Search - Tex Beneke & His Orchestra :: In Glenn Millers' Footsteps: Blues Serenades & Marches

The best Beneke album ever

David F. Donahue | Buffalo, Wyoming, USA | 08/16/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a superlative continuation of Glenn Miller's Air Force Orchestra and probably a good example of what Glenn's music would have sounded like had he lived through the war. The orchestra, composed of a lot of Miller graduates,is crisp, full, disciplined, and full of that old Miller romanticism. Tex is great in his few vocals here, and he does relinquish the mike to Garry Stevens and Glenn Douglas, two guys who carry on the Ray Eberly tradition. About half of the numbers came out in the early 1950's on a Camden album called "Stardust". If you are in the total Glenn Miller scene, this is a great CD that bridges the gap between the Air Force Orchestra and the Ray McKinley Glenn Miller Ork. Try it, you'll like it!"