As a multi-instrumentalist, Marcus is highly proficient as a keyboardist, clarinetist/bass clarinetist and, primarily, as a world-renowned electric bassist, topping critics’ and readers’ polls for three decades. His résumé as an A-list player brims with over 500 recording credits as a sideman on albums across the spectrum of musical styles: he worked with Donald Fagen, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Simon, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Jay-Z and Billy Idol amongst others. He also contributed to the album ‘Tutu’ of jazzlegend Miles Davis.
On his most recent soloalbum ‘Afrodeezia’ Miller collaborated with again an enormous variety of musicians of which Lalah Hathaway, Robert Glasper, Keb’ Mo’ and Chuck D are just a few examples. Inspired by his role as an UNESCO ‘Slave Route Project’ spokesman he travelled through West-Africa, South-America and the Caribbean’s which resulted in an album on which you can not only hear influences of jazz and fusion but also the sound of Non-Western genres.
