Marcus Miller
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959-06-14
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Redemption Wall
- Forgotten Man
- Slave Tracks
- Ghost Operator
- The mother truckers
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Film & TV
Sound · Brooklyn, New York, USA
William Henry Marcus Miller Jr., more commonly known as Marcus Miller, is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, but is best known for playing the bass guitar. Born June 14, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up in a family of musicians, specifically his father William Miller, a church organist, and his cousin, jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. Miller plays guitar, saxophone, bass, keyboards,…
Known for
- We Want the Funk! — Self2025
- Marcus Miller @ TSF Jazz Chantilly Festival 20252025
- 'Round Miles: A Miles Davis Documentary — Himself2022
- Beneath the Bassline - Lost Backstage — Self2021
- Marcus Miller - Laid Black Tour - Estival Jazz Lugano2019
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool — Self - Musician2019
- Montreux Jazz Festival 2013 - Remember Claude Nobs — Self2019
- Quincy Jones: A Musical Celebration in Paris — Self2019
- Marcus Miller: Jazz à la Villette 2019 — bass2019
- Marcus Miller - Leverkusener Jazztage 20172017
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 303,023
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jazzbassfunkFusionjazz fusion
Marcus Miller (born June 14, 1959 in New York) is a jazz musician, composer, and producer, perhaps best known as a bass guitarist with Miles Davis and David Sanborn. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist, and also plays bass, keyboards, saxophone, and guitar, and is a capable singer. Miller's proficiency on his main instrument, the electric bass, is generally very well regarded. Not only has Miller pioneered the continuing development of a technique known as "slapping" <a href="https:/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 79,892x
- Use of Dinitrosalicylic Acid Reagent for Determination of Reducing Sugar
· 1959 · cited 22,183x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,178x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
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Key dates
- Born
- 14 June 1959
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marcus
- Family name
- Miller
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- smooth jazz
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1959 births20th-century American guitarists21st-century American clarinetistsAfrican-American guitaristsAfrican-American jazz musiciansAmerican funk bass guitaristsAmerican jazz bass clarinetistsAmerican jazz bass guitaristsAmerican jazz composersAmerican male bass guitaristsAmerican male jazz composersAmerican multi-instrumentalists