Mulgrew Miller

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mulgrew Miller
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	Aug 13, 1955(1955-08-13)
Age	69
Date Of Death	2013-05-29
Birthplace	Greenwood
Country	United States
Birth City	Mississippi
Horoscope	Leo

Mulgrew Miller Biography

Mulgrew Miller is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on August 13, 1955 in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States. A jazz artist who recorded important works with many great artists in the 1970s and 1980s.

He created a jazz trio that included jazz standards and works by He formed a jazz trio, taking on not only jazz standards, but also works by Cole Porter and Thelonious Monk., Thelonious Monk, and others.

After graduating from Greenwood High School, Miller became a student at Memphis State University in 1973, attending with a band scholarship. He played euphonium, but, during his two years at the university, Miller met pianists Donald Brown and James Williams, who introduced him to the music of well-known players such as Wynton Kelly, Bud Powell, and McCoy Tyner. Still at Memphis State, Miller attended a jazz workshop, where one of the tutors was his future bandleader, Woody Shaw, who stated that they would meet again in two years. They did meet again two years later, and Shaw remembered the young pianist. After leaving university in 1975, Miller took lessons privately in Boston with Madame Margaret Chaloff, who had taught many of the pianists that Miller admired. He later commented that, “I should have stayed with her longer, […] but at that time I was so restless, constantly on the move.” Miller played with saxophonists Ricky Ford and Bill Pierce in Boston. That winter, Miller was invited to Los Angeles by a school friend and decided to go, to escape the northern cold. He stayed on the West Coast for a year, playing locally in clubs and a church.

Towards the end of 1976 Miller was invited to substitute for the regular pianist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra (led by the late bandleader’s son, Mercer Ellington). Miller had performed the same role for one weekend around a year earlier, and the new work was to be for only three weeks, but he ultimately toured with the orchestra for almost three years. His membership of the orchestra helped him, in the words of a piano magazine, to get “respect as a powerful, two-fisted pianist adept at delivering entrancingly lyrical and gracefully introspective runs as well as dazzling and buoyant passages.” He left in January 1980, after being recruited by vocalist Betty Carter, with whom he toured for eight months that year. He was then part of Shaw’s band from 1981 to 1983, thereby, in Miller’s view, fulfilling his destiny from their earlier meetings. In 1981 he made his studio recording debut, on Shaw’s United. During the early 1980s he also accompanied vocalist Carmen Lundy, and played and recorded with saxophonist Johnny Griffin.

His family lived in Greenwood, Mississippi when he was born.

Mulgrew Miller Net Worth

Mulgrew Miller is one of the richest Pianist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mulgrew Miller 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After seeing Oscar Peterson perform live on TV, he was inspired to learn how to play jazz. His first attempts to learn jazz were unsuccessful.

He worked with Betty Carter and He collaborated with Betty Carter, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey‘s Jazz Messengers, Tony Williams, and many others across a career in which he participated in more than 500 albums as accompanying pianist. as well as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Tony Williams and many other musicians during a career that saw him participate in over 500 albums as an accompanying pianist.

Mulgrew Miller (August 13, 1955 – May 29, 2013) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. As a child he played in churches and was influenced on piano by Ramsey Lewis and then Oscar Peterson. Aspects of their styles remained in his playing, but he added the greater harmonic freedom of McCoy Tyner and others in developing as a hard bop player and then in creating his own style, which influenced others from the 1980s on.

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After leaving Blakey in 1986, Miller was pianist in drummer Tony Williams’ quintet from its foundation that year until it disbanded around 1993. Miller remained busy between tours with Williams’ band, in part by touring with his own groups. The first of these was formed in 1987 and named Wingspan, as, Miller explained, “sort of a dedication to the legacy of Charlie Parker – Bird, you know.” It became one of Miller’s main bands, enduring through changes of personnel, and featured a lot of his compositions in its performances. Another band was known as Trio Transition, which contained bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Freddie Waits. They released the album of the same name in 1987.

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Mulgrew Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mulgrew Miller celebrates birthday on August 13 of every year.

Miller and his family moved to Palmer Township, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania in

1989. In that year he joined three other pianists in recording a CD tribute to Memphis pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. This group, the Contemporary Piano Ensemble, performed intermittently until 1996, often playing together on four separate pianos. In 1990, Miller traveled to the Soviet Union to appear as pianist in Golson’s band at the first Moscow International Jazz Festival. In 1992 Miller also toured domestically and internationally with the New York Jazz Giants, a septet containing Jon Faddis, Tom Harrell, Lew Tabackin, Bobby Watson, Ray Drummond, and Carl Allen. Miller continued to accompany vocalists, including on recordings with Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson. Starting in 1993, he also played and recorded with saxophonist Joe Lovano.