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American jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Marcus Miller is best MILLER known as a bass guitarist. He has worked with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Luther Albertville, France Vandross, and David Sanborn. July 27 2016 Reviewing Miller’s latest album, 2015’s Afrodeezia, London Jazz News wrote:

So Afrodeezia is not what the title suggests, an album of exclusively African sounds. Instead Marcus Miller has given his musical imagination free rein across the many genres he works in. This is important to his mission of giving a voice to the black people who, as he points out, have no voice, whose history has been erased, living on only through music. His stated aim has been to ‘follow them like footprints from their beginnings in Africa all the way to the United States’ and throughout the New World. Hence the steel pans on Son of Macbeth, the upbeat samba-like Hylife, with vocals by Senegal’s Alune Wade and Cherif Soumano. And, of course, the melodic possibilities of the electric bass are well exploited here, such as the fretless soloing on the serene Xtraordinary.

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Thanks to elgaucho for sharing the show at Dime.

Lineage: TSF (FM) / Naim Uniti / RH-09R / Audacity / Xact MP3 Version Naughty Dog Marcus Miller Albertville, France 2016 80 mins 06. Goree17:04 05. UT10:31 04. Papa Was aRollingStone16:16 03. B’s River 12:46 02. Hylife11:20 01. Panther 11:25 Trade Freely. NotForSale. Marcus Miller-bass,clarinetbass Brett Williams-keyboards Alex Han-altosaxophone Russell Gunn-trumpet

Alex Bailey-drums

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