David Miller

Bassoonist David Miller was a classmate of pianist and composer Anthony Davis in Yale School in the ’70s, a picture that produced many great contemporary jazz performers such as for example trombonist George Lewis, soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, and percussionist Gerry Hemingway — most of them wanting to escape the culturally deceased town of New Haven. With the ’80s, Davis acquired set up himself as an excellent author of ambitious jazz parts. Miller took component in periods for the pianist’s record Undine, a assortment of two expanded parts released over the Mesa Blue Moon label. Aside from this, he doesn’t appear to possess pursued a documenting career on a musical instrument that, despite its great potential, continues to be considered something of the oddity in jazz.