Herb Miller Jazz Band - Let The Good Times Roll (2004)

The first CD of the HERB MILLER JAZZ BAND contains a cross-section through the versatile repertoire of the experienced band. As with the live concerts, the CD begins with the opening piece "At the Jazz Band Ball". In the following, popular and popular jazz standards such as the "Bourbon Street Parade" or "Saint Louis Blues" and "Is not Misbehavin", but also less well-known titles such as "Dippermouth Blues" or "Mama's gone Goodbye". Of course, the blues are also represented, for example with "T-Bone Shuffle" or "Worried Life Blues" and, of course, with the title track and "Theme Song" of the new CD "Let the Good Times Roll"!

Herb Miller, who led a band emulating that of his late brother, Glenn, in the United States and Europe, played trumpet in Charlie Spivak's band, but quit to get his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1939. There, he started his own band, which toured the country at the same time Glenn Miller was storming the United States with his popular group. After the outbreak of World War II, Glenn Miller joined the Army Air Force and was leading a band in England when a plane he was on disappeared on Dec. 15, 1944, on a flight to Paris.

In 1981, Herb Miller came to London and formed a band with his son, John, as lead singer, performing such Glenn Miller favorites as "String of Pearls," "Moonlight Serenade," "American Patrol" and "In the Mood."