Marcus Miller He Spent Approximately 15 Years Performing As a Session Musician, Grew Up In a Musical

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  • Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
  • William Henry Marcus Miller Jr was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on June 1959, He grew up in a musical family, his father William Miller was a church organist and choir director. Through his father he is the cousin of jazz pianist Wynton Kelly, He became classically trained as a clarinetist and later learned to play keyboards, saxophone and guitar. Miller began to work regularly in New York City, eventually playing bass and writing music for jazz flutist Bobbi Humphrey and keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith, Miller became a session musician. Miller's earliest influences include James Jamerson and Larry Graham. He spent approximately 15 years performing as a session musician, During that time he also arranged and produced frequently. He was a member of the Saturday Night Live band between 1979 and 1981, He co wrote Aretha Franklin's Jump To It along with Luther Vandross. He won the Most Valuable Player award three years in a row and was subsequently awarded player emeritus" status and retired from eligibility. In the mid 1980s Miller began a solo career as a funk or R&B singer with the albums Suddenly in 1983 and Marcus Miller in 1984. He was the main songwriter, producer and instrumentalist on these albums, He has since then released ten more solo albums although he has only occasionally sung on these subsequent albums. Between 1988 and 1990 Miller was the musical director and house band bass player during two seasons of the late night TV show Sunday Night on NBC, hosted by David Sanborn and Jools Holland.
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