Results for "Mark Miller"

Mark Miller

Mark Miller is a Los Angeles based vocalist, pianist, and jazz promoter whose first CD "Dreamer With A Penny" features three great West Coast pianists including Page Cavanaugh, Jane Getz, and Joyce Collins. Also contributing are bassist Bob Maize, and drummers Dave Tull, and Ralph Penland. In his first national review, JazzTimes Magazine calls his work "masterpieces of interpretation". Page Cavanaugh calls him "one of the best singers in the business". Michael Feinstein wrote, "Your interpretations are joyful, swinging, and a pleasue to hear." Available in stores and on CD Baby, this CD is already getting considerable airplay in Southern California.

The Birdland Big Band at Birdland Jazz Club

by Dan Bilawsky
February 10, 2026

Happy hour on Friday is for unwinding, leaving the work week's burdens behind and--if you're lucky, and in the New York City area--catching The Birdland Big Band. That ensemble has long been holding court at its namesake club in a liminal space between afternoon and evening, filling the gap between life's structured nine-to-five commitments and the ...

Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

By David DeJesus

Label: Birdland Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Storybook; Water Lily; Tenderly; Chorale and Alleluia; Sail Away; WTF; Close Your Eyes; Concierto de Aranjuez/Spain; The Doubledown; Nonsense.

The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

by Jack Bowers
October 7, 2025

Storybook, the third recording by the New York City-based Birdland Big Band, is subtitled “the music of Mark Miller" and is designed to showcase compositions and arrangements by that multi-talented artist who doubles (triples) as the band's lead trombonist. Miller wrote or co-wrote half of the album's 10 colorful and impressive numbers (11 if one counts ...

New NoBusiness Records Archive Series Release: William Hooker "Light. The Early Years 1975-1989"

January 13, 2016

Featuring David S. Ware, David Murray, Roy Campbell Jr., Mark Hennen, Jemeel Moondoc and others. NoBusiness Records is pleased to announce a new archive release from it’s series of important musicians and group recordings from the 70s and 80s, which either were never released before or released on small private labels but long out of print ...

Robin Holcomb: Distinctive Mysteries

by Gordon Marshall
February 14, 2011

Robin Holcomb's songs are knotty like tumbleweeds, braided like roads on maps along which tumbleweeds roll. She lays her songs down like baskets that have the rustic grace of birds' nests, always on the verge of promising a truth, but brimming with natural mysteries. Mysteries accrue, creating a keen urge to get at the kernel of ...

Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: G.R.A.S.S. On Fire

by Jerry D'Souza
February 10, 2011

The Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society was fermented when a group of jazz musicians who shared the same vision for reggae got together for jam sessions at the home of keyboardist Nate Shaw. Their love of the music coalesced into a more tangent form when they presented the soundtrack to the 1972 film, The Harder They ...

Mark Miller: The Return Of Slide Huxtable

by Samuel Chell
January 18, 2008

Mark Miller The Return Of Slide Huxtable Slide Huxtable 2007 No doubt most Americans today would have trouble believing that just over half a century ago, the two most popular, commercially successful musicians were trombonists. And not long after the stardom of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, the ...

Dreamer With A Penny

By Mark Miller

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004