Oud in jazz and Eastern cello by Lloyd Miller

Lloyd Miller plays oud and clarinet in a Turko-jazz blend he calles Guzel Gozler or Amber Eyes, then oud as a jazz instrument for Our D=Blues ending with his Cello a la Turque using cello to play a Turko-Persian modal imporvisation

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[abdullahh11]

very bad play on the Oud

[gahgeer]

@easternartskstjohn Excellent piece - never saw or heard better playing of the Oud and this magnificent fusion with western Jazz. Wish it'd been longer!

[worldartsdocmiller]

For my friends yanivperot and brycec. OK an Israeli playing Arab music is very cool; finally some respect for the original tradition. So please post your oud taksims, I need to see how a real master plays. I am happy to take criticism from an old master if there is anyone older than me at 72. But all the old masters I have known on any instrument are kind and encouraging, not like juvenile delinquents. And oud blues is not corrupting Eastern music but honors the Afro roots of jazz.LM.

[worldartsdocmiller]

Thank you Ziad. Yes I a still playing at 72. Check out my worldartsdocmiller Youtube site for a recent Persian music concert where I played santur. I have a jazz concert in a couple of days and in a couple of weeks our Octoberfest band is playing for a large group at the university. So I will be playing for a while longer. Dr. Lloyd Miller

[tarabflamenco]

@easternartskstjohn you are a pioneer Dr Lloyd Miller do you continue to play ? you are a real fusion musician

thank you

ziad

[yanivperot]

dr. lloyd, i am not an arab, i am israeli, so there goes YOUR racist remark. i am also playing an instrument that is not of my tradition, it's ok you are not alone.

on the other video your playing is better, i'm glad to hear you've improved, but i'd expect a hardline puritan such as yourself (according to comments you've made in other videos about the pollution of iranian music by the west - where are your "oud blues" days now?) to at least hold the oud properly, and some more humbleness

[brycec3]

Dr. Lloyd Miller isn't a very good oud player in this video. Which is fine! But he asserts that if you see this and detract from it, it isn't because he played poorly - it's because you're an Arab racist. At 1:12, the good Dr. Lloyd has to readjust his instrument. Not exactly the sign of a master. In fact, he is constantly readjusting it throughout the songs. When a musician plays poorly, I understand it. When a musician blames others for it, it is foolish.

[doctorlloydmiller]

OK detractors. This Arab ego or whatever that makes you think you are the best on oud is understandable. And as an adopted Persian, the centuries old Arab anti-Persian thing should stop. But if you need to see more of how I really played oud later on NIRTV in the 70s, check out the above video response. If you can do better, then great, keep up the good work. No other instrumentalists of any tradition have a problem with my playing on the dozens other instruments I have posted. Dr. L. Miller

[Pefetz6]

@easternartskstjohn

plus, personally as an oud player i can see by the way you hold the insrument and mizrab that you know very little about playing one, and the sound you produce is evidence of the amount of respect with which you approach your instrument (and then add insult to injury by implying one cannot expect much from an oud).

if i had a webcam i would gladly upload a taqsim of mine, but i don't. and personally munir bashir and even farid are not exactly my taste either.

خودة حافظ

[Pefetz6]

@easternartskstjohn

what vanity... to reduce one of the middle-east's most ancient, diverse and widespread instruments to 'an old farid' "solo" and to dismiss all the rest of the oud players as unimpressive shows disrespect and ignorance and does not deserve a serious argument in defense of one of the middle-east's most expressive and versatile instruments.