Portrait of Bubber Miley (Podcast #19-008)

Ellington Reflections · Apr 20, 2019 · 42m

https://ellingtonreflections.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bubber-miley_rev-a.mp3“Bubber Miley was from the body and soul of Soulville. He was raised on soul and saturated and marinated in soul. Every note he played was soul filled with the pulse of compulsion…..

Bubber was born in South Carolina, but his family moved to New York when he was quite young, and he was raised there. His growl solos with the plunger mute were another of our early sound identities, and between 1925 and 1929 he laid the foundation of a tradition that has been maintained ever since by men like Cootie Williams and…