Marcus Miller (born June 14, 1959 in New York) is a grammy award-winning jazz musician, composer and producer, perhaps best known as a bass guitarist with Miles Davis, Luther Vandross and David Sanborn. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist, and also plays bass clarinet, keyboard, saxophone, and guitar, and is a capable singer. Formative years As a child, Miller was around music a lot and always fooling around on the piano: His father played piano and organ (mainly in church). At the age of 8 Miller started recorder, and the clarinet at age ten at the public schools he attended. Miller went to the High School of Music and Art (now the Laguardia School of Performing Arts), where he majored in the clarinet. As a teenager, Miller would buy the sheet music to all the popular songs and want to play them. His father would teach him how to just read the guitar chord symbols and make up his own accompaniment. At the same ti

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