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The Dunbar Hotel, originally opened as the Somerville Hotel, still stands at Central Avenue at 42nd Street, an intersection once regarded as the hub of Los Angeles’ jazz scene. During the 1930’s and 40’s especially, Central Avenue was crowded with jazz clubs, and the Dunbar, as one of the few hotels to accommodate African Americans in the area, had a guest list that read like a jazz history book: Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton all stayed there, and Duke Ellington was known for his parties at the Dunbar with “champagne and chicks everywhere.” As racial integration in the city slowly improved, the need for the Dunbar diminished. Jazz clubs, including the prominent Club Alabam across the street, closed and Duke began staying at hotels in Hollywood while in town. Today, the Dunbar is a registered historic landmark, and is no longer an active hotel, serving as a retirement home. My thanks to my friends Jamond McCoy (piano) and Zaq Kenefick (tenor sax) for allowing me to record their original jazz improvisations for the soundtrack.

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from TO​.​.​.​.​OBLIVION, released October 19, 2018
Alexander Elliott Miller, electric guitar & electronics
Jamond McCoy, piano
Zaq Kenefick, saxophone

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Alexander Elliott Miller Los Angeles, California

Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer and guitarist whose music has been described as "wild... unearthly... lyrical... a voice worth listening to" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and "deceptively laid back in an LA way... inventive... unconventional" (LA Times).

Miller is on the faculty of CSU Long Beach and Chapman University, where he teaches music theory and composition. ... more

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