Lloyd Miller - A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz 2009

Dr. Lloyd Miller is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and multi-linguist. He has been fusing jazz with international folk and classical forms since the early 1960s. He can play more than 100 instruments. Though he began his professional career playing internationally with Don Ellis and Eddie Harris during the '50s, his interest in jazz led him to pianist Jef Gilson's Paris-based studio group, and he was featured on 1961's Jef Gilson Septet avec Lloyd Miller. He issued the 1968 classic Oriental Jazz while studying for his doctorate at Brigham Young University. During the 1970s, he studied in Tehran and roamed the Middle East making field recordings and collecting instruments. He hosted a television show there, booking American jazz and traditional Persian musicians. Miller returned to recording with Etruscan Impressions in 1993. In 2010, Strut released Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics. 2020's At the Ends of the World, on Fountain AVM, was followed by a retrospective of unissued material titled Orientations: 1960-2021. In 2009, England's Jazzman label issued A Lifetime in Oriental Jazz, an officially licensed compilation of Miller's various recordings from 1961 to 2005, though most of its selections were drawn from early-'60s sources. Then age 71, Miller was suddenly a sensation with English and European jazz fans and musicians, and American music collectors, too. AMG.

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