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Member Info: Christian Miller - Christian Miller - jazz guitar/bouts of oddness |
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Name: Christian Miller
Contact: Available to Members
Focus: Jazz
Location: London, United Kingdom
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Biog
Born in 1977, I caught the guitar bug through listening to too much Jimi Hendrix and Chicago blues. Later guitar obsessions involved Frank Zappa which led onto a keen interest in jazz and contemporary concert music. I think I've had a go at playing most kinds of guitar - playing everywhere they'd let me from hip-hop records to opera orchestras (counting - arghh!) Still, it's jazz that I keep coming back to on the guitar - inspired by my unwavering love of the jazz guitar greats and an unhealthy obsession with the recordings of John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
Other musical activities involve singing as a classical bass-baritone, both on the opera stage, in churches and in concerts hall, solo, ensemble and in choirs. Early music is a particular geeky obsession, as is pointless guitar shop talk. Bring it on!
You can hear some brief samples of one of my current projects here:
http://www.bigfan.info
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At a recent gig with Miguel Ramon on sax and Mike Flynn on bass. |
Activities
Playing gigs, studying music, movement and drama, working in an office(still!) trying to keep my head together.
Transcribing.
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Musical Influences
• Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, JS Bach, Guilluame de Machaut, Gustav Mahler, Duke Ellington
• John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Steve Coleman, London piano monster Robert Mitchell (check him out!)
• Gyorgy Ligeti, John Adams, Steve Reich, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, James Brown, Stevie Wonder
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Favorite Recordings
• Miles Davis - the complete '64 concert
• Andrew Parrott & Taverner Consort - Monteverdi Vespers 1610
• Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
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