'I'm an Albertan': Jazz legend Big Miller left swinging legacy in his adopted home
EDMONTON - "They call me Big," he said. And in almost every way, he was. There was the outsized physique, larg...
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EDMONTON - "They call me Big," he said. And in almost every way, he was. There was the outsized physique, larg...
"They call me Big," he said. And in almost every way, he was.
EDMONTON — "They call me Big," he said. And in almost every way, he was. There was the outsized physique, large enough to fill a telephone booth. There was the powerful, blues-shouting voice honed in jazz clubs and lounges across the continent.
Clarence (Big) Horatius Miller was born in 1922 and grew up in Kansas
The Pointer Sisters performing in New York City in 1983, the year the group released its album em Break Out /em , which included four top 10 hits. If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters' record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters' "Jump (For My Love)," "Automatic" or "Neutron Dance" dominated the charts during the first half of the...