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Mark Christian Miller

May 2022: Music In The Air

by C. Michael Bailey
May 16, 2022

Mark Christian MIller Music In The Air Sliding Jazz Door 2022 Southern California has an embarrassment of jazz vocal riches, of which Mark Christian Miller is a considerable part. A welcome fixture in the Los Angeles area, Miller has released two previous recordings in 2004's Dreamer With A Penney (Sliding Glass ...

Just You, the Secret Service and Me - Celebrating Johnny Mercer

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 9, 2019

Besides a celebration of songs by Johnny Mercer, the broadcast includes new releases from pianist Andrea Petrity, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, vocalists Margaret Whiting, Karrin Allyson, Sonia Johnson, and the latest project from drummer Terri Lyne Carrington+Social Science plus more birthday shout outs to bassist Jen Hodge, vocalists Janet Lawson, Holli Ross, LaVern Baker, Ernestine Anderson, ...

Ten Artists: January 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
January 16, 2019

I am adopting my “Bailey's Bundle" format as sole vehicle for my music reportage. Moreover, I am sharpening my focus to three segments of the jazz universe, in this order: (1) Jazz Vocals, (2) Archival Releases, and (3) Everything Else. I have changed the title to the more inclusive “Ten Artists," better reflecting how I have ...

Kellye Gray: Rendering

by Mark Christian Miller
December 27, 2017

Kellye Gray has reissued her 1989 debut recording Standards in Gray in a double disc package with her current release, titled Rendering. It isn't immediately obvious that there are two CDs in the package and I was later informed that the earlier disc is tucked into the side pocket--what a nice surprise. It takes ...

Crazy Moon

By Mark Christian Miller

Label: Sliding Jazz Door Productions
Released: 2015
Track listing: Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams; Tomorrow Is My Turn; Cheek To Cheek; Second Chance; Oh, You Crazy Moon; Strange; Moonray; Twilight World; I've Got Just About Everything; April Fooled Me; Almost In Your Arms.

Mark Christian Miller: Crazy Moon

by C. Michael Bailey
September 4, 2015

Southern California already has Mark Winkler. Some crazy critical mass is reached when considering vocalist Mark Christian Miller's Crazy Moon. Not because Miller and Winkler are so much alike...there is a bit of that, but more because they are so different. Both have performed on the Left Coast for the past 25 years, each building a ...

Mark Christian Miller: Crazy Moon

by Bruce Lindsay
August 30, 2015

Mark Christian Miller has been performing for over 20 years, mostly in southern California. Recordings are rare, however: perhaps because he's also been working as promoter, booker, manager and festival director. Debut album Dreamer With A Penny (Sliding Glass Door) appeared in 2004; an album with Betty Bryant, Together (bry-mar music) in 2011. Crazy Moon is ...