On Sunday last week at Jim Dvorjak’s “Rumour”s in Hornsey, I was talking to Kevin Davy who was the 2nd trumpet player at Phil Miller’s Tribute Concert on the 6th January 2019 at the Vortex JazzClub in Dalston, Hackney, London. I asked him what he thought of our website:
philmillerthelegacy.com where the entire concert can be found. It was actually 2 concerts – we sold out of the first and had to hold another – one in the afternoon and one in the evening.
All the music played are Phil Miller’s compositions. We decided to play compositions from his entire career and we had 20 musicians, who had played with Phil, who rehearsed for three days at the Premises and performed for free as a tribute to him.
Kevin said he had never heard of the website.
After Phil died we decided to have this Tribute concert at the Vortex and I hired a film company to film both these concerts. They used 3 cameras and I taught myself how to do video editing so that I was able to turn both concerts into separate videos, all of which we put up on our site under the menu heading CONCERT.
In order to publicise our website we have decided to put a performance from these concerts, one each month, onto YouTube, starting at the first performance of the first concert and continuing each month until we have put them all up. At the end of each performance there is a list of the musicians who played. We also watermarked all the videos with the words philmillerthelegacy.com which we hope will draw more people to our site.
This first performance is Miserable Man, one of Phil’s compositions from the band DELIVEVERY
formed with Phil on guitar, his brother Steve Miller on piano, Jack Monck on bass, later replaced by Roy Babbington (and playing here) Pip Pyle on drums, and Lol Coxhill on saxophone
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