Who Is Marcus Miller?
Marcus Miller, who was born on June 14, 1959 in New York, is a jazz musician, composer and producer, perhaps best known as a bass guitarist with Miles Davis, Luther Vandross and David Sanborn. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist, and also plays bass clarinet, keyboards, saxophone, and guitar, and is a capable singer. Marcus Miller always knew that what older musicians said to him – about music, but mostly about life — was of the greatest importance. And it’s these stories that gave life to “Tales,” the bassist-composer-producer’s latest and most personal recording. Mixing spoken word recordings by such greats as Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Joe Sample and Roberta Flack with scintillating modern music, Miller has concocted an expressive blend that is a story itself. “I was trying to get the album to sound like a conversation that I’ve been hearing all my life, a conversation between me and mostly older musicians,” he says. Marcus started trying to figure ou
