Aziza Miller
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Aziza Miller is a composer, arranger, pianist, poet,vocalist and music educator and a Yamaha endorsed keyboard artist. She is a long time associate and former musical director and pianist for Natalie Cole. Aziza's first platinum song is La Costa, recorded by Natalie Cole and Ahmad Jamal. She was one of the musicians in The Color Purple on Broadway and Alicia Keys H.S. music teacher.
Aziza's Performances overseas include Ucclub in Moscow, Barbados Jazz Fetival, Yokohama, Japan, The Jazz Cafe in London
other links to Aziza's videos are:
www.smoothjazzspace.ning.com/ladyzee
www.sawubona-musicjam.com
www.facebook.com/profile/aziza
cdbaby.com/azizajazz.com, itunes, napster
RPK is available upon request.
www.cdbaby.com/azizajazz
About
"Hiz Eyez" puts me in a trance! When I hear the song, I'm in another world! Aziza is an excellent pianist, outstanding singer, top educator, and she entertains the audience right into the palm of her hand. I'm in love!
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Aziza, a composer, pianist, poet, vocalist, arranger and music educator is a YAMAHA endorsed Artist.
Aziza was born and raised in new york city. She started playing piano at 8 years of age and began composing music while attending The High School Of Music and Art and The Manhattan School Of Music. She has a master's degree in music education and a bacherlor's degree in theory. She taught in the new york city public schools system for approximately 16 years as a licensed music teacher. Alicia Keys was her vocal jazz improvisation and theory student for 3 years at The Professional Performing Arts School in new york city and on Nov. 13, 2007 Aziza and Alicia Keys appeared together on Good Morning America where Alicia is quoted saying that "Aziza taught her everything!" In June 1997, Aziza received The Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher Award from President Bill Clinton.
Her most popularly recorded song to date is "La Costa".
Natalie Cole sung and recorded it during the time when Aziza,( who was then known as Linda Williams) was her music director and pianist. Other recordings of La Costa have been done by Ahmad Jamal, Jorge Dalto, Phil Upchurch, Franciso Agua bella and many others. Aziza recorded 2 very different versions of it on her Jazzsoetry vol.1 cd.
She has collaborated and written recorded lyric versions of tunes by Ahmad Jamal( Whisperings, My latin, Picture Perfect, It's Only a flower), Ray Bryant( One Fine Day, which is the lyric version of Cubano Chant)and the late Tommy Turrentine( Big Brown Eyes).
Aziza has worked with other artists such as Marvin Hamlisch, Whoopi Goldberg, Rodney Dangerfield, James Brown and Dan Akroyd in the movie "Dr. Detroit", Linda Hopkins, Marlena Shaw, Freda Payne, Alex Blake, Benny Powell, Russel Blake, Buddy Williams, Sonny Redd, Rene McClean and Cecil Payne to name a few.
Aziza's(Linda Williams) music has been sampled by artists in the U.K and Japan. One such artist goes by the name of Ben Westbeech. "Elevate Our Minds" and "Capricorn Rising" are still very popular in Europe. In 1979 she recorded her first album for Arista Records called City Living. "Elevate Our Minds" is one of the tunes on that album.
Aziza was Shelton Becton's designated keyboard sub in Oprah Winfrey's Broadway Hit musical The Color Purple, conducted by Linda Twine and ran for two and a half years at The Broadway Theater in nyc.
On April 6, 2008, Aziza appeared on Oprah Winfrey's Big Give which was taped @ Carnegie Hall in new york city. Aziza accompanied Natalie Cole on piano.
Other links-
www.reverbnation.com/jazzsoetry
www.myspace.com/thesingerscorner
www.smoothjazzspace.ning.com/ladyzee
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