Artist description The exciting selections of music on this site are by high-energy bands including: Salt City Saints (traditional New Orleans); Roaring Twenties (hot Chicago jazz); L.A. Blues (hard 40s & 50s blues); SwingnJive (40s & 50s Bop, Jive and Swing); Lloyd Miller Quartet (hot & cool jazz); Lloyd Miller Trio (hot & cool jazz); Earthtones (world inspired creations); Eastern Arts (Persian, Afghan, Turkic, Indian, Asian, etc.).

Music Style New Orleans, Chicago, Blues, Bop, Cool, Eastern, Ethnic, World

Musical Influences Bunk Johnson/Goerge Lewis for New Orleans;Louis Armstrong's HotBunk Johnson & George Lewis New Orleans masters; mid 20s hot Chicago jazz; 40s & 50s hard blues; 40s & 50s Bebop, East Coast & Cool jazz; Persian, Afghan,Turkic, Indian, Asian

Similar Artists New Orleans: Bunk Johnson/George Lewis;Chicago: Louis Armstong's Hot 7/Jelly Roll Morton; top 40s & 50s hard blues bands;best 40s & 50s Bebop, East Coast & Cool jazz; best Eastern masters

Artist History Doc Miller started playing music at age 3 and by his late teens had learned most styles of jazz on most instruments. He later spent 6 years as a jazz artist in Europe then 7 years as a TV personality and performer in Eastern countries. Miller plays all styles of jazz and Eastern music of 12 world traditions on some 100 instruments. Miller’s PhD work on Persian music resulted in the book Music and Song in Persia published by Curzon Press in London. But even before his second trip to the Middle East on a Fulbright Scholarship, Miller was working on Eastern music and finding ways to bring metaphysical and highly developed Eastern concepts into modal jazz. Miller’s LP album Oriental Jazz released in the late 60s and the three consecutive years he won composer and other trophies at Intercollegiate Jazz Festivals indicate that he was one of the first to bring Eastern musical ideas to jazz. As well as correctly representing traditional jazz styles, Miller performs and draws on authentic Eastern musical forms from Persia, India, Afghanistan, Asia, Indonesia and other world traditions. His CDs include: Etruscan Impressions, Pure New Orleans Jazz, Saints of Two Cities, Chicago Jazz, Jazz Piano, L.A. Blues & SwingnJive, Multi-instrumental Mania, Eastern Arts Performance Highlights and Earthtones World Inspired Creations plus 7 LPs and 20 tapes.

Group Members Doc Miller uses the best available virtuoso artists and often records world-class masters of Eastern musical genres who he invites to Salt Lake for high profile concerts.

Instruments Miller plays all instruments in the most jazz and Eastern world traditions

Albums Etruscan Impressions, Pure New Orleans Jazz, Saints of Two Cities, Chicago Jazz, Jazz Piano, L.A. Blues & SwingnJive, Multi-instrumental Mania, Eastern Arts Performance Highlights and Earthtones World Inspired Creations

Press Reviews Doc Miller has been praised in articles in the New York Times (by John S. Wilson), Down Beat, Jazz Magazine (Paris), Tehran Journal, Journal de Tehran, Kayhan International, Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, and several publications in Germans, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, etc.

Location SLC, UT - USA

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