Remembering some great musical films Mar 9, 2008
The caption notes, Charlie Barnet s talents were wasted on such numbers as 50,000,000 Nickels in the 1942 Juke Box Jenny, a Ken Murray and Iris Adrian turkey ... Featuring the All-American Dance Band with Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenny, Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti ... The usual suspects appeared on camera: Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong, Alvino Rey, Jan Garber, Teddy Powell, the Pied Pipers. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
Maynard Ferguson — jazz trumpeter and bandleader Aug 26, 2006
Later that year he joined Charlie Barnet, and by February 1950 he was in the ranks of Stan Kenton s giant orchestra. Alongside him in the trumpet section was Shorty Rogers, who wrote a musical portrait of Ferguson which the band recorded the following June. (TimesOnline)
Maynard Ferguson Aug 26, 2006
When the gigs wound down, Jimmy Dorsey grabbed him, as did Charlie Barnet in turn. Ferguson thought Barnet's the "the hottest, swingiest band I ever played with," although Barnet was to be dismissive of Ferguson's later crossover jazz-rock. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Maynard Ferguson, 78, Master of High Notes and High Volume Aug 25, 2006
Ferguson was also featured to good advantage with Charlie Barnet, a veteran swing bandleader who was experimenting with bebop. When I interviewed Ferguson in 1987, he chuckled over the coincidence that Barnet, at the time, had an all-Scandinavian trumpet section, that included, in addition to Ferguson, the Swedish Rolf Ericson, as well as Doc Severinson, later Johnny Carson's bandleader on "The Tonight Show.". (New York Sun)
Bill Miller, 91, Pianist for Frank Sinatra, Dies Jul 17, 2006
" By 18 he was playing with Larry Funk and his Band of a Thousand Melodies. Later he played with Joe Haymes, Red Norvo and Mildred Bailey, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet. He was playing the lounge at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1951 when songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen took Sinatra to hear him. No longer the idol of the bobby sox set, Sinatra was in a slump and ready to make a change in musical direction. He liked what he heard in Miller's simple, understated performance.When he... (Los Angeles Times)
Bill Miller, Sinatra's pianist, dies at 91 Jul 16, 2006
He went on to play with Joe Haymes and His Orchestra, the Red Norvo-Mildred Bailey band, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet. . (Washington Times, DC)
Longtime piano player for Sinatra dies Jul 16, 2006
Later he was with Joe Haymes and his Orchestra, the Red Norvo-Mildred Bailey band, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet. In 1951, he was playing the lounge at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas when songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen brought Sinatra to hear him. (AZCentral -- News)
Arts and Entertainment Apr 25, 2006
The concert took place at the Blanche Touhill Performing Arts Center and several were on hand to witness the homecoming of a jazz great who has toured with the likes of Duke Ellington, the Quincy Jones Orchestra, Charlie Barnet, Eddie Vinson and Count Basie, to name a few. by in. (The Current Online, MO)
