Charlie will be playing examples and taking questions in response to e-mails sent before and during the shows. He will also be playing - and broadcasting - new music. This is a jazz program for jazz students.
All the programs will be rebroadcast continuously between live shows. RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, XMMS or WinAmp can be used to listen. The bandwidth requirement is modest. Mono, 22.5khz at 32khz sampling.
Web site: www.etc-edu.com
About Charlie Miller:
Back in the 60s, every kid trumpet player in New Orleans knew who Charlie Miller was. He worked up the nerve to leave town. "When I moved to New York, I tried everything. Broadway, Classical, Jazz, Latin, Rhythm & Blues ... you name it."
Charlie left New Orleans to accept a full scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music Graduate School. Today he is a familiar performer at jazz festivals and clubs in France, Spain, Finland, Switzerland, London, England, Italy, Germany, Russia and even Japan. He has been a featured performer in the Playboy JazzFest at the Hollywood Bowl, the Monterey, Newport, Syracuse and New Orleans Jazz Fests, the Fest de Jazz de Montreal and the Preakness Fest in Baltimore.
Charlie worked at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet, on Broadway in "Chorus Line" and "Annie get your Gun", in Carnegie Hall with the Thelonious Monk Big Band, in the Machito Latin Band, the Chuck Mangoine Band, the Saturday Night Live Band, the Tonight Show band with Jay Leno, on the Conan O'Brien Show, and on Austin City Limits. He's worked with B.B. King, Hank Crawford, Johnny Adams, Davell Crawford, Ruth Brown, David "Fathead" Newman, and Jimmy Witherspoon, but is best known today for his long-term commitment to Dr. John as Music Director and Arranger.
Charlie has received the "Offbeat" magazine "Lifetime Achievement Award" and been voted best trumpet player and best overall sideman by the savvy New Orleans Jazz community. His Peace Horn CD was used in a 1998 episode of "Homicide" and in the independent film "Lucinda."
"This music has a spirit of love and freedom. I grew up with music that came out of innocence, purity and love for the music itself," explains Miller. "It's about freedom from the barriers that exist in human experience, freedom from predictable frameworks.
"CDs tend to sound like other CDs today. An R & B record -- it's a drummer, guitar, keyboard and a singer, maybe horns if the budget's not too tight. The sound is known before a note is played. So it's living recordings, like going to a museum.
"God has given me a gift for realizing the unexpected in my music, and that's every musician's mission -- to bring new music into the world."
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