Mulgrew Miller
Encyclopedia
Mulgrew Miller is an American
jazz
pianist who performs in a number of jazz idioms. He began his career as member of Art Blakey
's Jazz Messengers.
on television. Much of Miller's playing has the same technical prowess so often connected with Peterson. Currently, he maintains a working trio with Ivan Taylor on bass, and Rodney Green on drums. He has released four albums to date with Derrick Hodge
(bass) and Karriem Riggins
(drums) (both on the label MAXJAZZ): Live At Yoshi's Vol. 1 (2004), Live At Yoshi's Vol. 2 (2005), Live At The Kennedy Center Vol. 1 (2006), and Live At The Kennedy Center Vol. 2 (2007).
On May 20, 2006, Miller was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Performing Arts at Lafayette College
's 171st Commencement Exercises.
Miller currently resides in Easton, Pennsylvania
. As of 2006 he is the Director of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University
. He was the Artist in Residence at Lafayette College
for 2008-2009.
With Stefon Harris
With Betty Carter
With Ron Carter
With Kenny Garrett
With Antonio Hart
With Freddie Hubbard
and Woody Shaw
With Joe Lovano
With Charles McPherson
With Lewis Nash
With Nicholas Payton
With Wallace Roney
With Woody Shaw
With Alex Sipiagin
With Terell Stafford
With Superblue
With Myron Walden
With John Stubblefield
With Tony Williams
With Cassandra Wilson
With Warren Wolf
With John D'Earth
With Pierrick Pedron
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
pianist who performs in a number of jazz idioms. He began his career as member of Art Blakey
Art Blakey
Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
's Jazz Messengers.
Biography
In a childhood filled with early musical experiences, mostly playing gospel music in his church and R&B and blues at dances. Miller was interested in jazz piano, and established a trio in high school that would play at cocktail parties. Miller admits that they did not really know what they were doing and were merely "approaching jazz". Miller is said to have set his mind definitely to becoming a jazz pianist after seeing Oscar PetersonOscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
on television. Much of Miller's playing has the same technical prowess so often connected with Peterson. Currently, he maintains a working trio with Ivan Taylor on bass, and Rodney Green on drums. He has released four albums to date with Derrick Hodge
Derrick Hodge
Derrick Hodge is an American bassist, composer, and music producer. He is also the founder of Son of Knowledge Music and Son of Knowledge Entertainment.- Biography :...
(bass) and Karriem Riggins
Karriem Riggins
Karriem Riggins is a jazz drummer, hip hop producer, dj, and sometime rapper. He is a former member of the Ray Brown Trio and Mulgrew Miller trio and currently appears in the Diana Krall quartet....
(drums) (both on the label MAXJAZZ): Live At Yoshi's Vol. 1 (2004), Live At Yoshi's Vol. 2 (2005), Live At The Kennedy Center Vol. 1 (2006), and Live At The Kennedy Center Vol. 2 (2007).
On May 20, 2006, Miller was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Performing Arts at Lafayette College
Lafayette College
Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...
's 171st Commencement Exercises.
Miller currently resides in Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....
. As of 2006 he is the Director of Jazz Studies at William Paterson University
William Paterson University
William Paterson University is a comprehensive public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey serving nearly 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students through five colleges: , , , , and ....
. He was the Artist in Residence at Lafayette College
Lafayette College
Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...
for 2008-2009.
As leader
- 1985: Keys to the City (Landmark RecordsLandmark RecordsLandmark Records was an American jazz record label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews as a successor to Milestone Records. Landmark Records published albums recorded by the Kronos Quartet of music by Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk, as well as straight jazz albums...
) - 1986: Work (Landmark)
- 1987: Wingspan (32 Jazz)
- 1988: The Countdown (Landmark)
- 1990: From Day to Day (Landmark)
- 1991: Time and Again (Landmark)
- 1992: Landmarks (Landmark)
- 1992: Hand In Hand (Novus RecordsNovus RecordsNovus Records Novus Records Novus Records (later Arista Novus and RCA Novus was a United States jazz and contemporary jazz record label. It was an Arista Records imprint focused on then-contemporary jazz artists...
) - 1993: With Our Own Eyes (Novus)
- 1995: Getting to Know You (Novus)
- 2002: The Sequel (MAXJAZZ)
- 2004: Live At Yoshi's, Vol. 1 (MAXJAZZ)
- 2005: Live at Yoshi's, Vol. 2 (MAXJAZZ)
- 2006: Live at the Kennedy Center Vol. 1 (MAXJAZZ)
- 2007: Live at the Kennedy Center: Vol. 2 (MAXJAZZ)
- 2010: Solo (Solo, Socadisc Records)
As sideman
With Art BlakeyArt Blakey
Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
- New York Scene (1984)
- Blue Night (1985)
- Live at Kimball's (1985)
- Live at Sweet Basil (1985)
With Stefon Harris
Stefon Harris
Stefon Harris is an American jazz vibraphonist. In 1999, the Los Angeles Times called him "one of the most important young artists in jazz" who is "at the forefront of new New York music" and "much in demand as a star sideman"...
- A Cloud of Red DustA Cloud of Red Dust-Personnel:*Stefon Harris – vibraphone, balafon, orchestra bells*Dwayne Burno – double bass*Kamati Dinizulu – harp, percussions*June Gardner – Vocals*Alvester Garnett – drums*Mulgrew Miller, Jason Moran – piano...
(1998)
With Betty Carter
Betty Carter
Betty Carter was an American jazz singer renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style...
- It's Not About the MelodyIt's Not About The MelodyThe Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album four stars, and described Carter as "a vocal improviser in a manner few have equaled, and if her voice lacks the clarity and timbre of the all-time greats, she's more than compensated with incredible timing, flexibility and power."-Track...
(1992)
With Ron Carter
Ron Carter
Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...
- The Golden Striker (2003)
With Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett is a Grammy Award-winning American post bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained fame in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. He has since pursued a critically acclaimed solo career...
- Introducing Kenny Garrett (1985)
- Garrett 5 (1989)
- African Exchange Student (1990)
- Beyond The Wall (2006)
With Antonio Hart
Antonio Hart
Antonio Hart is a jazz alto saxophonist. He attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, studied with Andy McGhee at Berklee College of Music, and has a master's degree from Queens College, City University of New York. His initial training was classical, but he switched to jazz in college...
- For the First Time (1991)
With Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
and Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and band leader, often referred to as the "last innovator" in the jazz trumpet lineage...
- Double Take (1985)
- The Eternal Triangle (1987)
With Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano
Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...
- Tenor LegacyTenor LegacyTenor Legacy is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano recorded in 1993 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "Lovano has created a set with a great deal of variety and some surprising moments".-Track...
(Blue Note, 1993) - Quartets: Live at the Village VanguardQuartets: Live at the Village VanguardQuartets: Live at the Village Vanguard is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1994 and 1995 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...
(Blue Note, 1995)
With Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson (musician)
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Joplin, Missouri and raised in Detroit, Michigan, most notable for his work from 1960-1972 with Charles Mingus....
- Come Play With Me (1995)
With Lewis Nash
Lewis Nash
Lewis Nash is an American jazz drummer. According to Modern Drummer magazine, Nash has one of the longest discographies in jazz. and has played on over 400 records by musicians, earning him the honor of being named Jazz's Most Valuable Player by the magazine in it's May, 2009 issue...
- Jazz Museum - Tribute to Great Artists (2008)
With Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton is a jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.-Biography:The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father...
- From This Moment (1994)
With Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney is an American hard bop and post-bop trumpeter.Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter's death in 1991...
- Verses (1987)
- Intuition (1988)
- The Standard Bearer (1989)
With Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and band leader, often referred to as the "last innovator" in the jazz trumpet lineage...
- Live Volume 3 (1977)
- Master of the Art (1982)
- Lotus Flower (1982)
- United (1981)
With Alex Sipiagin
Alex Sipiagin
Alex "Sasha" Sipiagin is a jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player.-Biography:Alex moved from Russia to the U.S. in 1991 and began his career shortly thereafter. His first gigs in the U.S. were with the Gil Evans Band and George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band. He has played with Dave Holland, Mingus Big...
- Mirages (2009)
With Terell Stafford
Terell Stafford
Terell Stafford is a professional jazz trumpet player and current Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University.Terell Stafford born in Miami, Florida and raised in both Chicago, Illinois and Silver Spring, Maryland. He went on to get a degree in music education from University of Maryland in 1988...
- New Beginnings (2003)
With Superblue
Superblue (band)
Superblue was an American jazz ensemble that released two albums for Blue Note Records in 1988 and 1989.-Supeblue:Superblue featured an octet including Bobby Watson, Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller, Frank Lacy, Bill Pierce, Kenny Washington, Don Sickler, Bob Hurst.#"Open Sesame"#"I Remember...
- Superblue (1988, Blue Note RecordsBlue Note RecordsBlue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
)
With Myron Walden
Myron Walden
Myron Walden is a jazz saxophonist and bass clarinetist.-Biography:Walden moved to The Bronx, New York at age 12, and there he began playing saxophone in school; his interest in jazz came when a neighbor gave him a Charlie Parker record. He went on to attend LaGuardia High School, and in 1993, he...
- Hypnosis (1996)
With John Stubblefield
John Stubblefield
John Stubblefield was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist.Stubblefield was an adaptable musician; he was stationed with the World Saxophone Quartet , Reggie Workman , McCoy Tyner , Freddie Hubbard , and George Russell .-As leader:* Prelude with Onaje Allan Gumbs, Cecil McBee, Joe...
- Confessin'Confessin' (album)Confessin' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist John Stubblefield recorded in 1984 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:...
(Soul Note, 1984) - Countin’ the Blues (Enja RecordsEnja RecordsEnja Records is a German jazz record label based in Munich, Germany. It was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971....
, 1987)
With Tony Williams
- Foreign Intrigue (1986)
- Civilization (1987)
- Angel Street (1988)
- Native Heart (1990)
- Young At Heart (1998)
With Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...
- Blue Skies (JMTJMTJMT may refer to:* JMT Records, a record label that specialized in contemporary jazz* Jedi Mind Tricks, a hip hop group with two members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one from Camden, New Jersey...
, 1988)
With Warren Wolf
Warren Wolf
Warren Wolf is a high school football head coach, who currently is the head coach of Lakewood High School in Lakewood, New Jersey.-Football:Wolf formerly coached the Brick Township High School football team in Brick Township, New Jersey, where he achieved a career record of 361-122-11. Wolf is New...
- Incredible Jazz Vibes (2005)
- Black Wolf (2009)
With John D'Earth
John D'earth
John D'earth is an American post bop/hard bop jazz trumpeter born in Holliston, Massachusetts has appeared on recordings by Dave Matthews and Bruce Hornsby as well as recording a number of CDs on his own. D'earth attended Harvard University briefly only to drop out and pursue his musical career....
- Restoration Comedy (2000)
With Pierrick Pedron
- Deep In A Dream (2007)