Marcus Miller (born June 14, 1959 in New York) is a jazz musician, composer and producer, perhaps best known as a bass guitarist with Miles Davis and David Sanborn. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist, and also plays bass clarinet, keyboards, saxophone, and guitar, and is a capable singer.
Miller's proficiency on his main instrument, the electric bass, is generally very well regarded. Not only has Miller pioneered the continuing development of a technique known as "slapping", but his fretless bass technique has also served as an inspiration to many, and has taken the fretless bass into musical situations and genres previously unexplored with the electric bass of any description.
Marcus Miller a commence comme clarinettiste puis s'est initie a la basse. Il est aussi un compositeur de jazz fusion (ou jazz rock). Il est ne a Brooklyn (Etats-Unis, New York) le 14 juin 1959.
Multi-instrumentiste, il se consacre plus particulierement a la basse ainsi qu'a la clarinette basse et sa carriere decolle lors de ses fructueuses collaborations avec le grand nom du jazz : Miles Davis (en naitra dans les annees 80 l'enregistrement Tutu). Il a egalement travaille sur l'album Zoolook de Jean-Michel Jarre en 1984 (notamment les morceaux "Ethnicolor" et "Zoolook").
Il poursuit depuis sa carriere en tete d'affiche, composant et jouant ses themes a la basse.
Techniquement, il se distingue par une grande habilete dans des techniques complexes comme le slap et le tapping, et utilise frequemment des basses sans frettes (fretless).
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