Chris Fortner profile picture

Chris Fortner

60% of the time it works every time!

About Me

I am on tour again with the Glenn Miller Orchestra for about a month.I finished touring with The One and Only Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, directed by Buddy Morrow, just recently. I stopped touring with the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra in March after 14 months of being on the road with them. Before joining the Miller band, I was an active musician in Louisville, KY playing with several jazz big bands and jazz organizations as well as many other musical projects. I have recorded for a few albums including the Liberation Prophecy CD "Last Exit Angel" in which multi-grammy winner Norah Jones appears. This album is available on Amazon.com and many other Internet sites including: Bestbuy.Com, Target.com, BarnesandNoble.com, cdquest.com, fye.com, etc... Check out www.liberationprophecy.com for additional information. I enjoy hanging out with my family and friends and drinking some beers in my spare time.

My Interests

Jazz/Big Band Music, Beer, Cool Cars, Skiing, Golf, Baseball, Basketball, relaxing, hanging with family and friends, vacations

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet all of my musical heroes that have passed away.

Music:

Jazz/Big Band - Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Ray Anthony, Charlie Spivak, Tex Beneke, Les and Larry Elgart, Woody Herman, Bunny Berigan, Kid Ory, Buddy Rich, John La Barbera, Carl Saunders, Wayne Bergeron, Andy Martin, Tom Kubis, Gordon Goodwin, Frank Rosolino, Urbie Green, Kai Winding, JJ Johnson, Slide Hampton, Bob McChesney, Maynard Ferguson, Harry Connick Jr, Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Carl Fontana, Leroy Jones, Bill Chase, ETC............!!!!!! The list goes on and on.

Movies:

Comedies - Blazzing Saddles, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Black Sheep, Office Space, Old School, Zoolander, Starsky and Hutch, Anchorman, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, The Jerk, Bruce Almighty, Meet The Parents, Cable Guy, Spies Like Us, Animal House, Blues Brothers, Caddy Shack, Fletch, National Lampoon's Vacation and European Vacation, Funny Farm, Van Wilder, The Three Amigos, What About Bob, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Police Academy 1 and 2, Coming To America, Trading Places, I Spy, Beverly Hills Cop, Stripes, Euro Trip, Napoleon Dynamite, Airplane, Spaceballs, ETC....................My favorite non-comedies are Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, The Untouchables, Walk The Line, Ray, The Glenn Miller Story, ALL SIX STAR WARS MOVIES, Rocky, Superman(all three Chrstopher Reeve films), Batman(Michael Keaton), Pride of the Yankees, Somewhere in Time, Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone, ETC...............

Television:

Conan O'Brien, Family Guy, Re-Runs of: Cheers, Quantum Leap, The A-Team, MacGyver, CHiPs, Three's Company; old Saturday Night Live episodes

Books:

Nope

Heroes:

Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Rosolino, Urbie Green, Benny Goodman, Wayne Bergeron, John La Barbera, Andy Martin, Maynard Ferguson, Tex Beneke, Bob Havens, Rick Simerly, Slide Hampton, Carl Saunders, Bob McChesney, Bob Knight, Jacob Duncan, Count Basie, Chris Farley, Brad Fortner, MacGruber (not MacGyver) and too many others for me to even try to think of to list here!!!