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Jamal Millner(July 4, 1971) is a West Virginia born musician best known for his versatile guitar playing.

Early life

Jamal was given his 1st guitar at the age of 3 years old. As a child, he appeared in a documentary on PBS entitled Banjo Man with Taj Mahal and Uncle John Homer.

Music

Jamal had the fortune of studying with noted scholars and musicians like Nat Reese, Martin Williams (ed. Smithsonian collection of Classic Jazz), Roland Wiggins (noted jazz theoretician), Walter Ross (noted American composer) and John D'earth (respected jazz trumpeter and member of Great American Music Ensemble, Bruce Hornsby Band) among others. In addition to the aforementioned, Jamal has performed with Taj Mahal, R.L. Burnside, Vusi Mahlasela, Buddy Guy, Ali Farka Toure', Dave Matthews Band, John Jackson, Nicholas Payton, and countless others on stage and in the studio. He has toured extensively throughout the US, Africa, Australia and Europe. Jamal has performed at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Bonnaroo, Byron Bay Blues Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. He was also personally selected by Dave Matthews to edit the guitar and piano transcriptions of the platinum album Crash.

Audio engineering

Jamal is also an accomplished producer, composer and audio engineer with credits on numerous critically acclaimed works in various genres and forms of media. He currently is the audio engineer for Backstory With The American History Guys.

Selected credits

Benyaro

Good Day Better (Benyaro Records) 2010 Recording engineering helped to create an environment of independence from formulaic approaches to making music. Also selected by Relix Magazine as one of the top 10 up and coming albums/artist for 2011.

Corey Harris 5x5-'

Mississippi to Mali (Rounder Records) 2003Recorded on location in Niafunke, Mali with Ali Farka Toure' Produced, Edited, and Mastered field recordings

Down home Sophisticate' (Rounder Records) 2002 Co-Production and Engineering. Received 4 stars in Rolling Stone.

Greens From the Garden (Alligator Records) 2000 Co-Production and Engineering. Acclaimed by Rolling Stone as one of the best albums of 2000.[citation needed]

Baaba Seth Live At The End of The World (Butros Butros Groove) 1999 Recorded, Mixed and Supervised Mastering of this popular regional bands live CD.

TV broadcast performance

Au Couer de Blue'''' (documentary) The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow-Promises Denied (PBS)2002 Scored,Recorded,Mixed and Mastered several cues for nationally televised documentary.

The Corner (HBO) –arranged main theme for 2000 Emmy Awards that was performed on the broadcast when the show was selected as a winner.


Transcriptions-editing


' Dave Matthews Band (Cherry Hill Publishing)

Under The Table and Dreaming

Crash

References

http://backstoryradio.org/