Red Beans & Ricely Yours

February / March, 1955

the story of satchmoNot Too Long Ago there was a movie called The Glenn Miller Story going the rounds. It wasn't very good but it wasn't very bad, either. Except for a few minutes, a completely unimportant part of the story, it was like any other not very good, not very bad Hollywood musical: You went to it, enjoyed yourself, got a coffee afterwards, and forgot about it. Except for those few minutes–and they will be remembered long after the rest of the picture has become a Technicolor blur. Bec...