Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Say My Name

“There have been moments when I found myself literally pinching myself and asking, ‘Am I really on the bandstand with Art Blakey?’ ‘Am I really on the bandstand with Tony Williams or Woody Shaw?’” jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller once told jazz.com. These days, a rising artist could very easily say the same thing about him. Born in the Mississippi Delta in 1955 and bred on church music and the civil rights movement, Miller has become one of the most recorded jazz artists of his time, his collaborations with early-jazz greats reading like a who’s who of the genre. This Thursday, he trios with saxophonist Brian McCarthy and bassist John Rivers at St. Michael’s College.