Following their award-winning collaboration with Ethio jazz Godfather Mulat… Read Full Bio ↴Following their award-winning collaboration with Ethio jazz Godfather Mulatu Astatke (Mojo magazine Top 50 of the year 2009, Sunday Times World Music Album of the year), pioneering UK collective The Heliocentrics resurfaces alongside another fascinating jazz enigma, ethno-musicologist, jazz maestro and multi-instrumentalist, Lloyd Miller.
Learning various instruments and immersing himself in New Orleans jazz through his father, a professional clarinet player, Lloyd Miller first trained himself in the styles of George Lewis and Jimmy Giuffre and cut his first Dixieland jazz 78 rpm record in 1950. During the late ‘50s, his father landed a job in Iran and Miller began to develop a lifelong interest in Persian and Eastern music forms, learning to play a vast array of traditional ethnic instruments from across Asia and the Middle East.
He toured Europe heavily, basing himself in Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany (where he played with Eddie Harris and Don Ellis) and, most famously, in Paris where he worked with oddball bandleader Jef Gilson, a phenomenon in French jazz during the early ‘60s. Miller returned to the Middle East during the ‘70s, landing his own TV show on NIRTV in Tehran under the name Kurosh Ali Khan. His show became a national fixture and ran for seven years.
Miller has since been a vocal ambassador for preserving the traditions of many forms of Eastern music. In recent years, his mid-‘60s album ‘Oriental Jazz’ has become a collector’s favourite and the UK’s Jazzman label have issued a compilation, ‘A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz’, covering work from across his career. The renewed interest in his music has spawned this new collaboration with The Heliocentrics, a freeform mix of Eastern arrangements, jazz and angular psychedelics and represents the Heliocentrics’ most accomplished work to date. Tracks include the reflective, yearning ‘Spirit Jazz’, a new version of Miller classic ‘Massom’ and the cinematic ‘Electricone’.
Learning various instruments and immersing himself in New Orleans jazz through his father, a professional clarinet player, Lloyd Miller first trained himself in the styles of George Lewis and Jimmy Giuffre and cut his first Dixieland jazz 78 rpm record in 1950. During the late ‘50s, his father landed a job in Iran and Miller began to develop a lifelong interest in Persian and Eastern music forms, learning to play a vast array of traditional ethnic instruments from across Asia and the Middle East.
He toured Europe heavily, basing himself in Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany (where he played with Eddie Harris and Don Ellis) and, most famously, in Paris where he worked with oddball bandleader Jef Gilson, a phenomenon in French jazz during the early ‘60s. Miller returned to the Middle East during the ‘70s, landing his own TV show on NIRTV in Tehran under the name Kurosh Ali Khan. His show became a national fixture and ran for seven years.
Miller has since been a vocal ambassador for preserving the traditions of many forms of Eastern music. In recent years, his mid-‘60s album ‘Oriental Jazz’ has become a collector’s favourite and the UK’s Jazzman label have issued a compilation, ‘A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz’, covering work from across his career. The renewed interest in his music has spawned this new collaboration with The Heliocentrics, a freeform mix of Eastern arrangements, jazz and angular psychedelics and represents the Heliocentrics’ most accomplished work to date. Tracks include the reflective, yearning ‘Spirit Jazz’, a new version of Miller classic ‘Massom’ and the cinematic ‘Electricone’.
Lloyd Lets Loose
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics Lyrics
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Yoko Yo
starker Track ^^
Nick Ullmann
great social critic, yeh, jeans, they DO feel like cardboard, bloody fashion accessories spewed out by fashion fascists - great music by the way, excellent rendition, great ideas, WHO IS THIS LLOYD GUY? .... need to look him up, methinks ....
worldartsdocmiller
main videos – with top artists: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1bfQVAmFM
Oriental Jazz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TKYLD8Il74
New Orleans jazz lesson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXFc4k2qqiU
Jazz history concert: youtube.com/watch?v=cPLGDAPT_0I
On 40 instruments: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzEJrIuaqNY
Leider Ich
@Yokonism danke mann ;-)
worldartsdocmiller
I am Lloyd Miller and, as you see, I do not approve of this as an example of my real work; please see my many actual video productions on Youtube such as LLOYD DOC MILLER'S ORIENTAL JAZZ ALL which do not have a jumpy jittery beat. Also I totally disapprove of advertising of junk products on MY videos where sneaky sharks make illegal money on my musical efforts. I have not been able to stop that crime yet; does anyone know how to prevent monitzaton theft on Youtube?
jusbe47
Is it your work or not?
worldartsdocmiller
I m the guest artist on this ugly recording and I despise Pepsi, Coke and all other poison products pushed on the whole world icluding the trash non-music that has poluted the whole world like leprosy. So let's drop all the mod-odd junk and return to the beauty of centuries ago.