Mike Miller: Save the Moon

In the case of Mike Miller, you really have to ask yourself why he has not long since achieved greater popularity. Miller is one of the greats of the American jazz and rock scene. He played for Chick Corea, George Duke, Gino Vanelli, Brand X, Robben Ford, Bill Frisell, Larry Coryell, the Fowler Brothers (of Frank Zappa fame), Bennie Maupin, Tom Scott, Alphonso Johnson, Brand X, the Yellowjackets, Don Was ... His first solo album has been a long time coming. SAVE THE MOON, recorded with his friends, bassist Jimmy Johnson, former Mahavishnu keyboardist Mitchel Forman, Zappa trombonist Bruce Fowler and drummers Peter Erskine, Tom Brechtlein and Ralph Humphrey, doesn't sound like the usual rock-jazz clichés - no - with SAVE THE MOON Miller has combined his musical skills on the guitar with idiosyncratic compositions and his personal humor and shows here that he has it, his own sound, plays pleasantly bulky and proves himself as a sensitive composer, rocks and improvises, uses less technique and creates here with his clear guitar sound thereby more expression. In addition to nine original compositions, there are 2 Beatles cover versions with "Julia" and "I'm A Walrus".