Lloyd Miller

Lloyd Miller (1938-2024) was an American jazz musician, multi-instrumentalist and scholar of Persian and Afghan music, born in Glendale, California. He mixed jazz with Middle Eastern and Asian instruments and modes, and he is best known for Oriental Jazz, an album he released himself in 1968. Miller played in Paris in the early 1960s, where he recorded with Jef Gilson's group, and he also worked with Don Ellis and Eddie Harris. He studied Middle Eastern studies at the University of Utah and set up his own East West label.