Phil Miller
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English people
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progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
/jazz
Jazz
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guitarist
Guitarist
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who was part of the Canterbury scene
Canterbury Scene
The Canterbury scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s...
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He was a member of the bands
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
Delivery
Delivery (band)
Delivery was a British blues/progressive rock musical group, formed in the late 1960s. The band was one of the wellsprings of the progressive rock Canterbury scene....
, Matching Mole
Matching Mole
Matching Mole was a short-lived UK progressive rock band from the Canterbury scene best known for the song "O Caroline". Robert Wyatt formed the band in October 1971 after he left Soft Machine and recorded his first solo album The End of an Ear...
, Hatfield and the North
Hatfield and the North
Hatfield and the North were an experimental Canterbury scene rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975, with some reunions thereafter.-Career:...
, National Health
National Health
National Health were a progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band included members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, the band also included guitarists Phil Miller and Phil Lee and bassist Mont...
, Short Wave
Short Wave (band)
Short Wave Live is the only album by Short Wave, a UK band related to the Canterbury Scene, consisting of Hugh Hopper , Didier Malherbe , Phil Miller and Pip Pyle .The band was formed in 1991...
(with Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper
Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...
(†), Pip Pyle
Pip Pyle
Phillip "Pip" Pyle was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France...
(†) and Didier Malherbe
Didier Malherbe
Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....
) and has since worked in solo projects and in his band In Cahoots
In Cahoots
In Cahoots is a Canterbury scene band led by guitarist Phil Miller, their main composer.The band was formed in November 1982 by Miller with Pip Pyle , Richard Sinclair and Elton Dean , as the Phil Miller Quartet. It was expanded to a quintet and given its definitive name when Peter Lemer joined...
, which he founded in 1982 with Richard Sinclair
Richard Sinclair
Richard S. Sinclair is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.-Biography:...
, Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....
(†), Pete Lemer and Pip Pyle.
In 2005 and 2006, Miller toured with the re-united Hatfield and the North.
Discography
| Year | Artist | Title |
| 1970 | Carol Grimes Carol Grimes Carol Grimes is a smooth jazz and world music singer.Grimes came to prominence in 1969 as a member of Delivery, associated with the Canterbury Scene. During the 1970s she performed regularly on the London blues circuit with her band The London Boogie Band... & Delivery |
Fools Meeting Fools Meeting Fools Meeting is an album by Carol Grimes with the british blues/progressive rock band Delivery, founded in the late 1968. The band was one of the wellsprings of the progressive rock Canterbury scene.... |
| 1972 | Caravan Caravan (band) Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan. Caravan rose to success over a period of several years from 1968 onwards into the 1970s as part of the Canterbury scene, blending... |
Waterloo Lily Waterloo Lily The following bonus tracks were included on the 2001 remastered edition of the CD.- Personnel :*Pye Hastings - guitars & vocals*Steve Miller - electric piano, organ*Richard Sinclair - bass & vocals*Richard Coughlan - drumsOther Players:... |
| 1972 | Matching Mole | Matching Mole Matching Mole (album) Matching Mole is the eponymous debut album from the English Canterbury Scene progressive rock band Matching Mole.-Track listing:*All Songs Copyright MCPS Music.#"O Caroline" – 5:05#"Instant Pussy" – 2:59... |
| 1972 | Matching Mole | Little Red Record |
| 1973 | Coxhill Lol Coxhill Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill is a free improvising saxophonist and raconteur... /Miller |
Miller/Coxhill |
| 1974 | Hatfield & the North | Hatfield & the North Hatfield and the North (album) Hatfield and the North is the first album by experimental Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North.In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".... |
| 1975 | Hatfield & the North | The Rotters’ Club The Rotters' Club (album) The Rotters' Club is the second album by Hatfield and the North. It was also in part an inspiration for novel of the same name by Jonathan Coe.-Track listing:#"Share It" – 3:03#"Lounging There Trying" – 3:15... |
| 1978 | National Health | National Health National Health (album) National Health is the first album recorded by the progressive rock and jazz fusion group National Health, one of the last representatives of the artistically prolific Canterbury scene... |
| 1978 | National Health | Of Queues and Cures Of Queues and Cures Of Queues and Cures is the second album recorded by the progressive rock and jazz fusion group National Health, one of the last representatives of the artistically prolific Canterbury scene.-Track listing:... |
| 1980 | Hatfield And The North | Afters Afters Afters is a 1980 compilation album released by Canterbury scene band Hatfield and the North. Of the sixteen tracks, eleven are taken from the band's two studio albums Hatfield and the North and The Rotters' Club, three are live recordings, and the two remaining songs are those from their 1974... |
| 1982 | Gowen Alan Gowen Alan Gowen was a fusion/progressive rock keyboardist, best known for his work in Gilgamesh and National Health.-History:... /Miller/Sinclair Richard Sinclair Richard S. Sinclair is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.-Biography:... /Tomkins Trevor Tomkins Trevor Ramsey Tomkins is an English jazz drummer best known for his work in a number of British bands in the 1970s, including Gilgamesh.His recorded several albums with pianist Michael Garrick in the late 1960s and early 1970s... |
Before A Word Is Said |
| 1982 | National Health | D.S. Al Coda |
| 1986 | Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin Barbara Gaskin Barbara Gaskin is a British singer who, with her musical partner, the keyboardist Dave Stewart, formed a duo in 1981. In September of that year they had a number one single in the UK with a cover version of the song "It's My Party"... |
Up From The Dark |
| 1987 | Phil Miller | Cutting Both Ways |
| 1988 | Geoff Leigh Geoff Leigh Geoff Leigh is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano sax and flute. He was a member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow and founded several bands himself, including Red Balune, Random Bob, Black Sheep, Mirage, and Ex-Wise Heads.-Biography:Geoff Leigh's... and Frank Wuyts |
From Here To Drums |
| 1988 | Phil Miller | Split Seconds |
| 1990 | National Health | Complete |
| 1991 | Phil Miller/In Cahoots | Live 1986-1989 |
| 1991 | Phil Miller | Digging In |
| 1992 | Phil Miller/Fred Baker Fred Thelonious Baker Fred Thelonious Baker is an English guitarist and bass guitarist from Tibshelf, Derbyshire. He is known for playing in Phil Miller's Canterbury scene band In Cahoots.... |
Double Up |
| 1993 | Phil Miller/In Cahoots | Live in Japan |
| 1993 | Hatfield And The North | Live 90 |
| 1993 | Short Wave | Short Wave Live |
| 1994 | Phil Miller/In Cahoots | Recent Discoveries |
| 1994 | Matching Mole | BBC Radio 1 In Concert |
| 1994 | Robert Wyatt Robert Wyatt Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career... |
Flotsam Jetsam (Matching Mole) |
| 1995 | Miller + Hopper Hugh Hopper Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:... |
Unsettled Scores |
| 1996 | National Health | Missing Pieces Missing Pieces Missing Pieces is an Australian factual television series that screened on the Nine Network in 2009. It was hosted by Peter Overton.Missing Pieces follows the stories of people who embark on a life-changing journey to find someone special who is missing from their lives. It has a similar premise to... |
| 1996 | Phil Miller/In Cahoots | Parallel |
| 1998 | Pip Pyle | Seven Years Itch |
| 1999 | Mark Hewins Mark Hewins Mark Hewins is a British jazz guitarist known particularly for his connections to the Canterbury scene.Hewins' professional career as a guitarist began in 1970 with the London band Mother Sun... |
Rebela |
| 2001 | In Cahoots | Out of the Blue |
| 2003 | Phil Miller/In Cahoots | All that |
| 2005 | Hatfield & the North | Hatwise Choice |
| 2006 | Hatfield & the North | Hattitude |