Begin The Beguine / Now I Know

A TRIBUTE TO GLENN MILLER & THE ARMY AIR FORCE ORCHESTRA
The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Jan Slottenäs with symphony musicians from The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, The Royal Swedish Orchestra and The Royal Swedish Opera.
Live from Berwald Hall in Stockholm, 26 May 2019.

[@randallriley]

Jan Slottenäs, you're doing the music proud! How wonderful to hear these AAF Band charts dusted off and being played so beautifully again as they should be. Bravo!!

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

"Now I Know" is such a beautiful song

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

It *definitely* needs to be revived more often

[@maverick10101976]

OOOHHHH good this is like heaven, i feel i´m 8 years old when i listen this for the first time!

[@janeberleschabergjaneberle8901]

Jan, this is an amazing tribute! I was fortunate to work with you in Clarinda and cherish the memory .. Bravo!

[@JohnTruth-h5f]

Just BEWTIFUL GUYS!

[@WOKINTUSD]

This amazing I really love Glenn Miller's music

[@mirosp.9246]

GENIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! APLAUSOS 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Poisson4147]

The first bars echo Artie Shaw's performance because both arrangements were written by Jerry Gray. It's not plagiarism if you borrow from yourself 😄

[@rallful]

Poisson Volante: When Glenn Miller's AAF orchestra played this as part of a medley Glenn aknowledged that it was borrowed from Chief Petty OfficerArtie Shaw.

[@Poisson4147]

@@rallful Very true. Miller always gave credit for the source of his "borrowed" tunes with both the civilian and AAF orchestras. The situation with _Beguine_ was a bit different because it wasn't just the borrowed tune in a medley. The complete concern arrangement itself quotes from the Shaw version before moving to the full AAF Sound, b/c Jerry Gray wrote both of them. He did Shaw's legendary 1938 arrangement at something like age 22, then joined Miller when Shaw disbanded. It wasn't long before he was one of Miller's chief arrangers, a position he also held with the AAF band (as well as assistant conductor and later full conductor). Heck, if quoting your own works was good enough for Brahms I guess it's OK for Gray too. 😆