Punch Miller

Punch Miller or Kid Punch Miller (actually, Ernest Miller, * (June 10, 1894 in Raceland (Louisiana ); † December 2, 1971 ) was a Dixieland jazz trumpeter and singer.

Punch Miller played at the beginning of his career with Kid Ory in New Orleans, where he worked from 1919 to 1927 before he moved to Chicago. There he played in several bands, such as Jelly Roll Morton and Tiny Parham and worked on many recordings, so when Jimmy Blythe, Johnny Dodds, King Oliver, Jimmy Wade and Kid Howard. The declining interest in traditional jazz meant that he appeared for a time only at festivals and gradually fell into oblivion. In the 1960s, with the Dixieland revival movement he received as part of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band again more attention; he returned to New Orleans back, played at Preservation Hall and led his own band. In 1962, an album for Atlantic Records, Jazz at Preservation Hall, Vol 3, at Miller with George Lewis played. In 1963 he went with George Lewis on tour in Japan. In the late 1960s he played with Captain John Handy and with Jimmy Archey ( Reunion ). Punch Miller stepped on to the end of his life, most recently at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Miller, who spent most of his life in Chicago resident, was the subject of a television documentary ( Til the Butcher Cuts him down).

Disco Graphical Notes

• Prelude to the Revival ( American Music, 1941)
• Punch Miller 's New Orleans Jazz Band 1957 (504 Records, 1957)