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Artist: Harry Miller
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Similar Artists:

Cecil McBee, Charlie Haden, Johnny Dyani, Hugh Masekela, Dudu Pukwana, Dave Holland, Louis Moholo, Alan Silva

Influenced By:

Lyle Mays, Mike Metheny, Mike Gibbs, Dave Holland, Karl Berger, Paulo Moura, Michael Olatunji, Pat Metheny, Steve Gorn, Jack DeJohnette, Naná Vasconcelos

Followers:

Louis Moholo

Worked With:

Marc Charig, Bob Downes

Formal Connection With:

Quintessence, Horizon, Mirage, BeBe Winans, Allan Zavod, Cindy Blackman, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leni Stern, Quincy Jones, Jean Toussaint, Ted Curson, Ashford & Simpson, Paul Motian, Phoebe Snow, Silvercloud Singers, Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji, Odetta, Mike Stern, Louis Mofsie, Michal Urbaniak, Wallace Roney, Slide Hampton
  • Born: 1962, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Died: 1983, Netherlands
  • Active: '70s, '80s, '90s
  • Genres: Jazz
  • Instrument: Keyboards, Composer, Arranger
  • Representative Albums: "The Collection", "Open House", "Harry Miller Trio: Live at the Museum

Biography

The South African-born bassist Harry Miller, after an experience in rhythm & blues and rock groups including Manfred Mann, arrived in England to play bass on the cruise ships heading to New York, where he experienced first-hand the music of Coltrane, Taylor, and Monk from 1961 to 1964. After leaving Geraldo's Navy, he worked with Mike Westbrook, Mike Osborne, and John Surman, and the Blue Notes arrived to find him already established. He was an organizing powerhouse: with wife Hazel he started the still-operating Ogun label to issue recordings by South African and contemporary European musicians, and he helped create the Lambeth New Music Society with its Grass Roots Jazz Club. Chris McGregor chose him for the Brotherhood of Breath, and he also played in a trio with Osborne and Louis Moholo, Keith Tippett's big band Centipede and trio Ovary Lodge, Alan Skidmore's quintet, and worked with Stan Tracey. As a leader Miller concentrated on the more exploratory side of the music, recording a solo album, two duos with trombonist Radu Malfatti, and two trios with Peter Brötzmann and Moholo (both on FMP). In Conference (Ogun, 1978) is a sextet featuring Willem Breuker, and Family Affair (Ogun, 1980) is his own band, Isipingo's only record. He lived in Berlin, where he recorded Berlin Bones (FMP, 1981) ,and in Holland, where he recorded Down South (Varajazz, 1983) with Bennink, Charig, Wierbos, and Bergin. Harry Miller passed away after a car crash in Holland in 1983. His four Ogun records and Down South have been reissued in the handsome Collection box (Ogun, 1999), with a rich informative booklet. ~ Francesco Martinelli, All Music Guide
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Harry Miller (1923-5 October 1998) was a journalist, writer, photographer and naturalist who lived most of his life in Madras, India. He was a popularizer of wildlife, nature and science, with numerous articles in local newspapers including The Hindu and The Indian Express.

Born as Harry Colin Miller in Swansea, Wales, he came from a poor Welsh family. He was a self-made man, who counted among his close friends the Dalai Lama, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, and Queen Frederika of Greece. He was married to an Indian from an illustrious Tamil Brahmin family, Revati Parthasarathy. He lived and worked in India for about forty years for the Indian Express and also wrote for the National Geographic, and he was also a photographer. He had two children Nisha and Robin. Robin died in 1991. Nisha lives in Chennai and has one daughter Tara Top-Teagarden.

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