Big Miller (Clarence H.Miller): Did You Ever Hear The Blues / Revelations And The Blues on CD

Big Miller (Clarence H.Miller)

Did You Ever Hear The Blues / Revelations And The Blues

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Label:: Fresh Sound
Year of recording ca.:: 1959/60
Item number:: 1641166
UPC/EAN:: 8427328606226
Release date:: 3.3.2011

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Clarence H. Miller, known to his friends as “Big”, was one of the most impressive new blues singers on the late Fifties scene. With a childhood background of church singing and piano and trombone studies, he became a professional musician in 1946 after Army service, when he led a band touring with a repertoire largely based on Louis Jordan “jump” numbers, before switching to bass and joining Jay McShann’s earthy, Kansas City based outfit. Influenced by Walter Brown and Joe Turner, he started singing blues with the band and moved to Chicago and Cincinatti, forming a group with trombonist Al Grey which went to Texas. A year touring the small Texas towns honed his gift for blues singing and a move to New York led to his big breakthrough.

He made a debut LP, Did you ever hear the blues?, for United Artists, went with Nat Pierce’s band into Birdland and then, through singer Jon Hendricks, was invited to the 1960 Monterey Jazz Festival. That led to Hollywood. Stints at Shelly Manne’s celebrated club and an album, Revelation and the Blues, with Ben Webster confirmed his status as a front-rank blues singer with a unique style which was influenced by bop.

With Big Miller (vcl), with Pat Brooks (tp), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Phil Woods (as), Zoot Sims, Plas Johnson, Ben Webster (ts), Al Cohn (bs), Jimmy Jones, Gildo Mahones (p), Kenny Burrell, Billy Bauer, Jim Hall (g), Red Mitchell (b), Elvin Jones, Jo Jones (d)