Marcus Miller – Biography, Discography & Instruments

Biography

Marcus Miller is a jazz musician who plays saxophone, guitar, double bass and clarinet. Marcus Miller was born on 14 June 1959 in Brooklyn. The music is usually filed under jazz, jazz fusion and rhythm and blues. Record labels: MNRK Music Group. The discography here lists 18 albums, from “Suddenly” (1983) to “Laid Black” (2018). Honours include Icon Award (2013) and Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit (2018).

William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. (born June 14, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonists Wayne Shorter and David Sanborn, among others. He was the main songwriter and producer on three of Davis's albums: Tutu (1986), Music from Siesta (1987), and Amandla (1989). His collaboration with Vandross was especially close; he co-produced and served as the arranger for most of Vandross's albums, and he and Vandross co-wrote many songs, including the hits "I Really Didn't Mean It", "Any Love", "Power of Love/Love Power" and "Don't Want to Be a Fool". Miller also co-wrote the 1988 single "Da Butt" for Experience Unlimited.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

Suddenly 1983 · Warner Bros. Records Marcus Miller 1984 · Warner Bros. Records The Sun Don't Lie 1993 · Dreyfus Jazz Tales 1995 · Dreyfus Jazz Live & More 1997 · Live · Dreyfus Jazz Panther/Live 1998 · Live · Jazz Door m² 2001 · Dreyfus Jazz The Ozell Tapes: The Official Bootleg 2002 · Live · 3 Deuces Records Dreyfus Night in Paris 2003 · Live · Dreyfus Jazz Silver Rain 2005 · Dreyfus Jazz Free 2007 · 3 Deuces Records Marcus 2008 · 3 Deuces Records A Night in Monte-Carlo 2010 · Live · Disques Dreyfus Tutu Revisited 2011 · Live Renaissance 2012 · Victor Afrodeezia 2015 · Blue Note Marshall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2017 · Warner Bros. Records Laid Black 2018 · Blue Note

Also plays on

Albums where Marcus Miller is credited as a sideman

1978	Streamline — Lenny White	bass
1979	Rio — Lee Ritenour	bass
1979	The Hawk — Dave Valentin	performer
1980	Skylarkinʼ — Grover Washington, Jr.	bass
1980	Winelight — Grover Washington, Jr.	bass
1980	Inflation — Stanley Turrentine	bass
1980	What It Is — David Liebman	bass
1980	Dream Come True — Earl Klugh	bass
1980	Detente — The Brecker Brothers	bass
1981	The Man With the Horn — Miles Davis	bass guitar
1981	Come Morning — Grover Washington, Jr.	bass
1981	Orange Express — 渡辺貞夫	bass
1981	Standing Tall — Crusaders	bass
1981	Straphangin' — The Brecker Brothers	bass
1982	As We Speak — David Sanborn	bass guitar, bass, synthesizer
1982	The Best Is Yet to Come — Grover Washington, Jr.	bass
1982	The Nightfly — Donald Fagen	bass
1982	Incognito — Spyro Gyra	bass
1982	Cityscape — Claus Ogerman & Michael Brecker	bass
1983	Star People — Miles Davis	electric bass guitar
1983	In Your Eyes — George Benson	bass guitar
1983	Backstreet — David Sanborn	acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums (drum set), electric guitar, fretless bass, percussion
1983	The Hunter — Joe Sample	bass
1983	Fill Up the Night — Sadao Watanabe	bass
1983	Attitude — Lenny White	bass
1983	City Kids — Spyro Gyra	bass
1984	Night-Lines — Dave Grusin	bass
1984	Inside Moves — Grover Washington, Jr.	synthesizer, bass
1984	12 — Bob James	bass
1984	Rendezvous — Sadao Watanabe	synthesizer, bass, bass guitar