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Mulgrew Miller

Miller in 2004

Background informationBorn August 13, 1955

Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S.

Died May 29, 2013 (aged 57)

Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Genres Jazz

Occupation(s) Musician, composer, educator

Instruments Piano

Years active 1970s–201 3

Labels Landmark, Novus, Maxjazz

Associated acts Art Blakey, Woody Shaw, Tony

Williams

Mulgrew MillerFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mulgrew Miller (Augu st 13, 1955 – May 29, 2013) wasan Americ an jazz pia nist, composer, and educator. As achild he pl ayed in chur ches and was influenced on piano

by Ramse y Lewis and then Oscar P eterson. Aspects of their styles rem ained in his playing, but he added thegreater harmon ic freedom of M cCoy Tyner and others indevelopin g as a hard bop pla yer and then in creating hisown style, which inf luenced others from the 1980s on.

Miller's style evolved through playing with a series of major jazz figures. After leaving university he was

pianist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra for three ye ars,then acco mpanied vocalist Betty Carter. Three-year stintswith trumpeter Woody Shaw and with drummer ArtBlakey's high pr ofile Jazz Messengers f ollowed, by theend of which Miller had formed his own bands and

begun recording under his own name. He was then partof drummer Tony Williams' quintet from its foundation,while continuing to play and record with numerous other lead ers, mostly in small groups. Miller was Di rector of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University fr om 2005,and continued to play and tour internationally with other high profile figures in the music until his death from astroke at the age of 57.

Contents

1 Early life2 Later life and career

2.1 1976–862.2 Later 1986–94

2.3 1995–20133 Personal life and personality4 Style and influence5 Discography6 References7 External links

Early life

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Mulgrew Miller was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, [1] to parents who had been raised on plantations. [2]

He had three brothers and four sisters. [3] His family was not musical, but they had a piano, which no-one inthe house could play. [4] Miller, however, played tunes on the piano from the age of six, playing by ear. [5] Hhad piano lessons from the age of eight. [6] As a child, he played blues and rhythm and blues for dances, andgospel music in a church. [1] His family was Methodist, but he played in churches of variousdenominations. [7] His principal influence on piano at this stage was Ramsey Lewis. [8]

While at high school, Miller formed a trio that played at cocktail parties. [1] His elder brother recommendedthat he listen to pianist Oscar Peterson, but there was no way of doing this in Greenwood until Petersonappeared on The Joey Bishop Show on television [4] when Miller was about 14. [8] After watching Peterson's

performance, Miller decided to become a pianist: "It was a life changing event. I knew right then that Iwould be a jazz pianist". [1] Miller later mentioned Art Tatum and Erroll Garner as piano influences duringhis teenage years. [9] Miller reported years later that he always found that playing fast was easy, so playingslowly and with more control were what he had to work hardest on. [10]

After graduating from Greenwood High School, [3] Miller became a student at Memphis State University in1973, [11] attending with a band scholarship. [4] He played euphonium, but, during his two years at theuniversity, [4] Miller met pianists Donald Brown and James Williams, who introduced him to the music of well-known players such as Wynton Kelly, Bud Powell, and McCoy Tyner. [5] Still at Memphis State, Millerattended a jazz workshop, where one of the tutors was his future bandleader, Woody Shaw, who stated thatthey would meet again in two years. [4] They did meet again two years later, and Shaw remembered the

oung pianist. [4] After leaving university in 1975, Miller took lessons privately in Boston with MadameMargaret Chaloff, who had taught many of the pianists that Miller admired. [8] He later commented that, "Ishould have stayed with her longer, [...] but at that time I was so restless, constantly on the move." [2] Mille

played with saxophonists Ricky Ford and Bill Pierce in Boston. [12] That winter, Miller was invited to LosAngeles by a school friend and decided to go, to escape the northern cold. [8] He stayed on the West Coastfor a year, playing locally in clubs and a church. [8]

Later life and career

1976–86

Towards the end of 1976 Miller was invited to substitute for the regular pianist in the Duke EllingtonOrchestra (led by the late bandleader's son, Mercer Ellington). [8] Miller had performed the same role for one weekend around a year earlier, and the new work was to be for only three weeks, but he ultimatelytoured with the orchestra for almost three years. [8][11] His membership of the orchestra helped him, in thewords of a piano magazine, to get "respect as a powerful, two-fisted pianist adept at delivering entrancinglylyrical and gracefully introspective runs as well as dazzling and buoyant passages." [10] He left in January1980, [8] after being recruited by vocalist Betty Carter, with whom he toured for eight months that year. [13]

He was then part of Shaw's band from 1981 to 1983, thereby, in Miller's view, fulfilling his destiny from

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their earlier meetings. [4][14] In 1981 he made his studio recording debut, on Shaw's United .[15]:11 During theearly 1980s he also accompanied vocalist Carmen Lundy, [16][17] and played and recorded with saxophonistJohnny Griffin. [15]:11

Miller was recommended for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers by Blakey members Terence Blanchard andDonald Harrison, [18]:110–11 and he joined the drummer's band in 1983. [14] Initially, he struggled to fit in withBlakey dominating the rhythm section, but Miller stated that, over his period with the band, "My playing

ust generally matured. I don't think one single characteristic changed, but the experience certainly boostedmy confidence". [18]:111 At times during concert performances he was allotted a solo piano spot, whichMiller used to play medleys. [19][20] His presence in the Jazz Messengers cemented his reputation withinazz. [21] His recording career as a leader began in 1985, with Keys to the City , the first of Miller's several

recordings for Landmark Records. [5] Jon Pareles' review of a solo concert in 1986 noted that Miller's playing showed the influence of Powell on some numbers and Kelly on others, but that, overall, he wasdeveloping "his own, authoritative style". [22]

Later 1986–94

After leaving Blakey in 1986, [14] Miller was pianist in drummer Tony Williams' quintet from its foundationthat year until it disbanded around 1993. [12][23][24] Miller remained busy between tours with Williams' band,in part by touring with his own groups. [21] The first of these was formed in 1987 and namedWingspan, [11][25] as, Miller explained, "sort of a dedication to the legacy of Charlie Parker – Bird, youknow." [8] It became one of Miller's main bands, enduring through changes of personnel, and featured a lotof his compositions in its performances. [8] Another band was known as Trio Transition, which contained

bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Freddie Waits. [21]

Miller also played on Williams bandmate Wallace Roney's first three recordings (1987–89), [26] and a largenumber of albums recorded by other leaders in the late 1980s. [27] These included an album with long-termcollaborator Steve Nelson, [28]:1202 a recording by trumpeter Donald Byrd, [29] comeback albums from altosaxophonist Frank Morgan, [28]:1165 and the first of a series of releases with tenor saxophonist BennyGolson. [12]

Miller and his family moved to Palmer Township, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania in 1989. [30][31] In that year he joined three other pianists in recording a CD tribute to Memphis pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. [32] This

group, the Contemporary Piano Ensemble, performed intermittently until 1996, often playing together onfour separate pianos. [33] In 1990 Miller traveled to the Soviet Union to appear as pianist in Golson's band atthe first Moscow International Jazz Festival. [34] In 1992 Miller also toured domestically and internationallywith the New York Jazz Giants, a septet containing Jon Faddis, Tom Harrell, Lew Tabackin, Bobby Watson,Ray Drummond, and Carl Allen. [35][36] Miller continued to accompany vocalists, including on recordingswith Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson. [21] Starting in 1993, he also played and recorded withsaxophonist Joe Lovano. [37]

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The influence of Williams continued into Miller's own projects, including their compositions andarrangements: The Guardian reviewer of Miller's 1992 Hand in Hand , his first for Novus Records,commented that "it's his occasional boss, drummer Tony Williams, who has made the strongest impressionon the way he organises the material. The opening "Grew's Tune" and the bluesier numbers would slotunnoticed into the Williams library." [38]

1995–2013

For several years after he had turned 40, Miller concentrated on composing and playing his own music. [39]

He therefore reduced his recording and club appearances, as well as one-day associations. [39] The stimulusfor this change had built gradually from Miller's first studio recording in 1981: "my recording activityincreased and by the time that it got into 1986–87 I was on so many records it was unbelievable untileventually it became rather overwhelming and stressful, so I had to cut back." [15]:11 He did continue torecord, often with musicians he had established relationships with: in 1996 he reunited with Williams toappear on what became the drummer's final recording, Young at Heart ;[40] further albums led by KennyGarrett, Nelson, Reeves, and others were made in the period 1997–99. [41]

In 1997 Miller went on tour in Japan with 100 Golden Fingers, a troupe of 10 pianists. [42] He joined bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen in 1999 to record duets based on 1940s performances by Duke Ellingtonand Jimmy Blanton. [43] The pair toured Europe the following year, with drummer Alvin Queen added for some concerts. [43][44]

In 2002 Miller's discography as leader began to expand again, as Maxjazz started to release recordings. [27]

A series of four concert recordings were released over the following years: Live at The Kennedy Center Vol.1 and Live at The Kennedy Center Vol. 2 (recorded in 2002), with Derrick Hodge (bass) and Rodney Green(drums); and Live at Yoshi's Vol. 1 and Live at Yoshi's Vol. 2 (recorded in 2003), with Hodge and KarriemRiggins (drums). In 2002 Miller joined bassist Ron Carter's Golden Striker Trio, with guitarist RussellMalone. [45]:235 The trio occasionally toured internationally for the next decade. [46][47] In 2003 Miller wascommissioned to write a score for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company; after writing The Clearing inthe Woods and having it choreographed by Ronald K. Brown, Miller and his band played the piece for

performances by the company. [12][48]

In the mid-2000s Miller joined bassist Dave Holland's band, changing it from a quintet to a sextet, andadding gospel and soul elements to the group's sound. [49] Around this time, Miller had two regular bands of his own: a piano trio, and a quintet featuring saxophone and vibraphone. [50] He also became heavily

involved in music education: Miller was the Director of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University from2005, [6] and was the Artist in Residence at Lafayette College in 2008, [51] which was two years after it hadawarded him an honorary doctorate in Performing Arts. [43]

Miller's only solo album, a 2000 concert recording entitled Solo , was released in 2010 and was wellreceived by critics for the imagination and harmonic development in Miller's playing. [52][53] Also in 2010,Miller joined guitarist John Scofield's new band. [54] That year, Miller had a minor stroke. [25] After this, hetook medicine, changed his diet and lost weight; [55] he also reduced his touring and recording. [21] InFebruary 2012 he traveled to Denmark to play with Klüvers Big Band; selections from one of the five

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concerts were released under Miller's co-leadership as Grew's Tune .[56] In autumn 2012 he performed as a piano duo with Kenny Barron, [57] continuing an association that had begun some years earlier. [58] In thewinter of that year he toured Europe as part of a quintet led by reeds players Yusef Lateef and ArchieShepp. [59]

On May 24, 2013, Miller was admitted to Lehigh Valley Hospital, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, havingsuffered another stroke. [6][60] He died there on May 29. [6][60] Miller made more than 15 albums under his

own name during his career, [43] and appeared on more than 400 for other leaders. [5] His last working trioconsisted of Ivan Taylor on bass and Green on drums. [43] Bassist Christian McBride commented on the lossto jazz on the day of Miller's death: "I sincerely hope every self-respecting jazz musician takes this day toreflect on all the music Mulgrew left us." [61]

Personal life and personality

Miller was survived by his wife, son, daughter, and grandson. [6] Miller married on August 14, 1982. [3] He

was quiet and gentle,[53]

and was "a modest man, with a self-deprecating sense of humour".[21]

Miller described his own attitude towards music in a 2005 interview:

I worked hard to maintain a certain mental and emotional equilibrium. It's mostly due to myfaith in the Creator. I don't put all my eggs in that basket of being a rich and famous jazz guy.That allows me a certain amount of freedom, because I don't have to play music for money. I

play music because I love it. [39]

Style and influenceBen Ratliff, writing for The New York Times , commented that, "As a composer, Mr. Miller is difficult to

peg; like his piano playing, he's a bit of everything." [62] Critic Ted Panken observed in 2004 that Miller the pianist "finds ways to conjure beauty from pentatonics and odd intervals, infusing his lines with church and blues strains and propelling them with a joyous, incessant beat." [39] John Fordham commented that Miller's"melodic fluency and percussive chordwork [...] recalled Oscar Peterson [...but] with glimpses of theharmonically freer methods of McCoy Tyner", and that Miller was much more than the hard bop player thathe was often stereotyped as being. [25] The obituary writer for Down Beat observed that "Miller could swinghard but maintained grace and precision with a touch and facility that influenced generations of musicians." [5]

Miller had a strong reputation with fellow musicians. [6][21] Pianist Geoffrey Keezer was convinced that hewanted to be a pianist after attending a performance by Miller in 1986. [6] Vibraphonist Warren Wolf statedthat Miller helped him early in his career, including by being a link to jazz history: "you're getting thatexperience of playing with Art Blakey, that attitude of 'Yes, it's my band, but you have to give other peoplea chance to shine.'" [63] Robert Glasper also cited Miller as an influence, [25] and wrote and recorded "One for'Grew" as a tribute. [6]

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Speaking in 2010, Miller commented on his approach to playing standards, which was more conservativethan that of many others: "I believe in giving due respect to the melody, playing it as true as possible, [...] asolo is a creative process that improves the melody." [64] He almost never transcribed recordings (somethingthat jazz musicians are typically taught to do); Miller credited this with slowing his learning process, butalso with allowing him to express himself more freely, as he reached his own understanding of thecompositions he played. [4]

Miller explained the lack of critical attention he received as follows: "Guys who do what I am doing areviewed as passé." [6][39] He also contrasted his own approach with that of performers who produced"interview music": "something that's obviously different, and you get the interviews and a certain amount of attention." [39]

iscography

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