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In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Dead Flowers: Anglophiles Anonymous
Miller is also behind the kit on "You Can't Always Get What You Want", taking over when Charlie couldn't get the hang of the beat: Miller's mastery of syncopation is a vital element of what is arguably one of the best rock songs ever recorded.
Jimmy Miller understood the importance of the beat, and for that reason, left his stamp not only on the greatest rock n' roll band ever, but on rock music as a whole.
Miller was introducing the Stones to the studio as an instrument and a compositional tool just as powerful as a telecaster with 5 strings.
sendmedeadflowers.com /2007/05/from-shadows-jimmy-miller.html   (1049 words)

  
  Glenn Miller: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Miller dominated the top spot on the various popular music charts for over a year, with "In the Mood" (a pared-down arrangement of the Joe Garland tune) holding the top spot for over fifteen weeks at the beginning of 1940 and "Tuxedo Junction" taking over and keeping Miller at "number 1" into the summer.
Miller's Norseman would only have had to travel a few miles off of its course to be positioned directly under the returning bombers.
Miller's music is familiar to many born long after his death, especially from its use in a number of movies.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gl/glenn_miller.htm   (689 words)

  
 Jimmy Miller (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jimmy Miller (1944-1994) was a Brooklyn-born record producer who produced albums for The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith, and The Rolling Stones (all albums from Beggars Banquet to Goats Head Soup), New York City's shock/punk rockers The Plasmatics and Motörhead.
Most importantly, Miller's goal was to make a recording sound like what he and the band thought the recording should sound like instead of trying to achieve the best sound quality possible.
His father, Bill Miller, was a Las Vegas entertainment director and the man who booked Elvis Presley into the International Hotel for his 1969 return to live performance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Miller_(musician)   (351 words)

  
 James Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Miller (VC 1916), an English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1916.
Jimmy Miller (musician), record producer of the 1960s and 1970s.
Jimmy Miller, the birth name of singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Miller   (241 words)

  
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Miller played and recorded with the likes of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey (who on several of their records, featured an up-and-coming singer by the name of Bing Crosby), Gene Krupa, Eddie Condon and Coleman Hawkins.
It is said that Miller could never remember precisely the moment he decided to emphasize his new reed section sound.
Miller's goal of entertaining the fighting troops took another year to be realized, but in late 1943 he and the band were shipped out to England.
www.glennmillerorchestra.com /history.html   (1070 words)

  
 edd miller resume   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As a life-long musician, he has experienced the creation of music - starting with the writing of a song and progressing all the way through to the final mix and mastering of the recordings – turning full-circle to the eventual sales and marketing to bring the recording to the consumer.
Miller is an acknowledged and unbridled self-learner, having gained the majority of his business and management acumen through hands-on real world experience and his many connections in music.
Miller is a voting member of the Grammy’s (NARAS), a member of NAMM and The Blues Foundation, and is personally affiliated as a songwriter and publisher with BMI.
cmopro.com /contact_bio/edd_resume.htm   (562 words)

  
 Glenn Miller is the featured musician from oldetimecooking.com.  Come visit Glenn and find links to this wonderful ...
In October 1942, Miller disbanded his orchestra and joined the US Army Air Force with the rank of captain and assembled a quality dance band to perform for the troops.
Miller's death was mourned by music lovers all over the world, and he was heralded as a hero worldwide.
Miller's band was one of the most popular and best-known dance bands of the Swing Era.
www.oldetimecooking.com /Music/glenn_miller.htm   (412 words)

  
 Jimmy Hunter's Cazador Recording - History of Bands
Jimmy's Detroit bred bass buddy Bobby Gianetti was the bass player and the outrageous guitarist was Dawayne Bailey (Chicago the band), who went on to become a guitarist of Chicago.
Jimmy was not the drummer at the time this pic was taken but it includes his former bandmates in an earlier shot before he took over the drumming chores.
Jimmy was student conductor in the ninth grade and conducted Wagner's Die Meistersinger in concert.
www.jimmyhunter.com /credits-band-history.html   (7834 words)

  
 Jimmy Hunter's Cazador Recording - Portolio, CDs Produced
Jimmy Hunter's singing is showcased in the father's part of a father/son duet on Skibbereen, the CD's title cut in a vocal arrangement with Kent as the son.
Jimmy participates in his church family and has access to use the choir members as singers and church band musicians in his studio when needed.
In a few instances, Jimmy sampled various tones of Perry's voice and composed a few of the outside jazzy cuts as sort of a "writer for hire." Wayne Perry tours the country as a lecturer on spiritual tone healing and holds classes in Los Angeles on the subject when he is in town.
www.jimmyhunter.com /production-portfolio.html   (8566 words)

  
 Glenn Miller @ Soundbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 - December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician and band leader in the Swing era.
During the 1930s, Miller worked as a trombonist in several big bands, before forming his first band in 1937, but it failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era.
Miller was presented with the first ever Gold record for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
www.soundbug.com /artist/509   (584 words)

  
 American BigBands - Page 3 "M" Bands
Jimmy passed away in 1991 but his wonderful wife, Marian McPartland carries on the Jazz tradition with her extraordinary piano technique.
Miller always felt that he was not a very good trombonist, certainly not on par with the likes of Tommy Dorsey or Jack Teagarden.
By 1942, the band was at the pinnacle of their success and popularity, and Miller was definitely making substantial profits from recordings, broadcasts, personal appearances, etc. But Miller felt a deep loyalty to the United States, and opted to assist in the war effort by joining the military.
nfo.net /usa/m3.html   (4388 words)

  
 Music in the Miller Mood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Glenn Miller’s focus was always on the entire orchestra, not on individual soloists—an emphasis that permanently estranged Miller from jazz purists and led jazz critics and musicians to debunk his music, then and now.
But Miller’s musicians, particularly in his Army Air Force (AAF) band or, as it later would be called in England, "The Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces," had as much room to improvise as musicians in other big bands of the era.
Miller’s AAF band was first-rate by any standards and included such outstanding sidemen as drummer Ray McKinley, saxophonist Hank Freeman, trumpeters 'Zeke' Zarchy and Bernie Privin, pianist Mel Powell, and vocalist Johnny Desmond, who moved to Chicago in 1948 to sing on Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club every weekday morning.
www.tuxjunction.net /glennmiller.htm   (3891 words)

  
 Glenn Miller - Past Perfect
Glenn Miller was a musical perfectionist, a Trombonist and bandleader whose band became the most influential of its era with pioneering efforts to modernize military bands and truly inovative arrangements that were both refreshing and entertaining.
Miller's orchestra existed for only five years yet it made an indelible mark on the history of popular music, changing and modernising dance music styles almost overnight.
They are performed by some of the greatest artists of the Twentieth century, singers and musicians lauded for their contributions to Broadway shows, to Hollywood movies, and to popular recording history.
www.pastperfect.com /glenn_miller   (1400 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Jimmy Miller - now on CD! - Fort Worth, Texas - Christian - www.myspace.com/jimmymillerfans
Jimmy Miller was a Contemporary Christian musician in the 1970s and early 1980s.
I haven't listened to Jimmy for over 20 years ago, but I went to college at Southwestern Conservative Baptist Bible College in Phoenix, where he had several fans.
For all of you Jesus Music fans from the 70's, Jimmy Miller is a must for your collection.
profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=117210800   (1344 words)

  
 The Jimmy Coe Discography
Jimmy Coe didn't pick up the instrument he was going to play professionally until he was 16--rather late for a young musician in those days.
While Jimmy Coe did not record as prolifically in his 70s as Eddie Johnson, probably because of the sluggish pace of recording activity in Naptown, he is still going strong as of this writing.
Jimmy Coe on the Jumpin' at the Flagships mini-tour.
hubcap.clemson.edu /~campber/coe.html   (8624 words)

  
 Phantom FM Worldwide from Dublin City, Ireland.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At the beginning of the sessions, he had confided to producer Jimmy Miller that he felt he had little to contribute, and indeed he spent most nights in the studio either passed out, drugged up or crying to himself.
Much of this was down to Jimmy Miller who encouraged the Stones to follow their train of thought on any given song at any given time.
A musician himself, Miller was well aware of the importance of allowing an artist the opportunity to create without reminding them of the time on the clock or the cost of the studio.
www.phantomfm.com /phanzine/AArchiveSTONES.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jimmy Miller (musician)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Screamadelica is a 1991 album by Primal Scream and was their first to be a commercial success.
Exile on Main Street is a 1972 (see 1972 in music) album by the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones.
Jimmy Miller (musician) was a record producer of the 1960s amd 1970s.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jimmy-Miller-%28musician%29   (799 words)

  
 Early Black A.A. along the Chicago-Gary-South Bend Axis, Part 2
Now Bill Williams was aware that the real issues here were arising from a set of strange taboos that still dominated racial relations in the United States back in the 1940's, a set of deeply felt but primitive and irrational superstitions which operated somewhat like the rules of the caste system in ancient India.
JIMMY H.: Yeah, I think he told me that -- that was later on.
JIMMY H.: Yeah, cause I was up there before he died.
hindsfoot.org /Nblack2.html   (2665 words)

  
 Musician Player Listener Article
MUSICIAN: For years, there have been rumors that Bill might be kicked out of the band, rumors fueled by the things like him not playing bass on a number of tracks on Exile.
Jimmy Miller used to go through reams of frustration, saying, "Tell the guy not to play there!" Meanwhile Mick is over there and he's just going to do what he's going to to.
MUSICIAN: The tragic thing is that he doesn't realize that many spiritual musicians from Asia and Africa consider rock and jazz to be some of our most effective connections with the sacred in mankind.
snow.prohosting.com /crasio/rollingstones/8400rollingstones.html   (9573 words)

  
 A weeklong journal from a veteran musician. By Roger Miller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The unit is set up so it can get power from my other floor unit, a tremelo box; unplugged the power connector to the vacu-fuzz and Jimmy got a regular quarter-inch cable to connect the two.
Wisps of smoke (and an odd burning smell) wafted from the jack as Jimmy put in the new cable, which worked perfectly.
Roger Miller is the guitarist and a vocalsit for the band Mission of Burma.
slate.msn.com /id/2100235/entry/2100383   (1365 words)

  
 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 23 - Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly two years after the measure had been passed by the United States Senate 77-16, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
February 29 - President Johnson announces that the United States had developed a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000 MPH and of altitudes of more than 70,000 feet.
March 4 - Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1964   (4566 words)

  
 VH1.com : Doug Fieger : Biography
The Who guitarist received the demo tape but it wasn't until The Knack were emerging in 1978 that Townshend acknowledged he listened to the songs on the tape many times, singing one of them to a stunned Fieger on the phone all those years later.
Miller was producing Traffic and had just started producing the single "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and the album Beggars Banquet for The Rolling Stones.
Young Doug wrote to Miller "you can ask Stevie Winwood about us, and if you're ever in Detroit...." and Jimmy Miller answered the letter, calling Fieger by phone, expressing interest in wanting to see the Motown studios.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/fieger_doug/bio.jhtml   (880 words)

  
 Tom Lord - The Jazz Discography - Catalog of Jazz Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I especially like being able to look at a musician's career in total, whether as a leader or a sideman or an arranger or whatever.
Also included are leader, musician and tune indexes which provide useful summaries of each category.
Ingenious use of the computer medium brings the work to life, and it is transformed from being 'lists' into becoming an account in recording terms of every musician, leader or sideman, that jazz has ever harboured.
www.lordisco.com /reviews.html   (2646 words)

  
 SP #156 — 6/13/99
I believe that Winwood suffers from the same disease that affects many performers who have been around for a while: their music either doesn't evolve at all, or it evolves too much and is no longer interesting.
Jimmy Miller is credited with three songs, perhaps because he added some touches to these songs and took some credit in the aftermath of Traffic's first breakup.
Jimmy may have simply come up with the title, or (less likely) it could be that the tune was written around some words of his but no vocal got recorded.
www.winwoodfans.com /maillist/volum156.htm   (3791 words)

  
 Sing This Song Together L to Q
These musicians are part of the native Berber culture of Morocco, living in the hills south of Tangiers, and their trance-like music is deeply tied to the religious and social life of their community.
Jimmy was great, but the more successful he became the more he got like Brian...
He was one of several high-prized session horn musicians in the 1970s, especially in the first half of the decade.
www.timeisonourside.com /whydontLQ.html   (7340 words)

  
 A weeklong journal from a veteran musician. By Roger Miller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Jimmy dropped me off at the police station on his way to return the van.
We had a fun talk: He's an actor about my age and understood the musician's itinerant life.
I'm not really a fan of clubs, but when there is so much creativity in action, the cigarette smoke and mold smell mean nothing to me. Chthonic stuff, that.
slate.msn.com /id/2100235/entry/2100445   (1078 words)

  
 Musical Calendar for March 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At 16, member local musician's union and then had first road gig with the Paul Ash Orchestra.
She appeared with the 'Major Bowes Troupe', that plied the Monongehela and Ohio Rivers on the famous "Showboat".
In 1936, she married Bill Finegan, orchestrator and composer, and also joined the Glenn Miller Orchestra as part of his writer, copyist team.
nfo.net /calendar/mar01.htm   (1368 words)

  
 Joey Stec - Jimmy Miller Product 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The 1994 tracks were the last recordings produced by Jimmy Miller before his death.
is a talented writer, accomplished musician and experienced record producer.
The album is produced by none other than Jimmy Miller, producer for the Rolling Stones, Traffic, and Blind Faith.
www.notlame.com /rss/CDSTEC1.xml   (179 words)

  
 Uppers | Ocean Colour Scene — "Better than the Jam"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1990 OCS released their debut single ‘Sway’ on the little indie label ‘!Phfft’ and was ‘hyped’ in the music press as the biggest thing since the Stone Roses.
After some contractual trouble the band in 1991 began to record their debut album for Phonogram, with the legendary Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller in producer’s chair.
After recording the debut album twice only two tracks from the Jimmy Miller sessions made the album and it was released in April of 92.
www.uppers.org /showArticle.asp?article=41   (2113 words)

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