Joel Miller is an award-winning saxophonist and composer based in Fredericton, Canada. His compositions, improvisations, albums, and shows communicate joy, celebration, humour, and curiosity about our amazing planet.

Joel grew up with a musical family. He got his passion for jazz music from his mother and her record collection, but his bass-playing brother, Andrew, suggested the saxophone at the dinner table one evening. Andrew said to a ten-year old Joel, “You know, the instrument that Zoot on the Muppet Show plays”.

He  took up saxophone at age ten, and as a teenager studied with maritime-raised Jazz legend Don Palmer.  This launched him off to study Jazz performance at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where he lived until 2020.  His career as a bandleader took off in 1997 when he showcased his debut CD, Find A Way, at the Montreal Jazz Festival and won the DuMaurierGrand Prix de Jazz.

Miller has performed with pianists Geoffrey Keezer (heard on his 2012 Origin album Swim),  Henry Hey & Jean-Michel Pilc; drummers Matt Wilson, Bob Moses & Brian Blade; and guitarist Ben Monder and Kurt Rosenwinkel (heard on 2005’s Mandala, on Effendi), Tuco Bouzi et le Dixie Band, Joé Armando y su groupo picante, Projecto Iré, Roberto Lopez, Sachabuché, Symphony New Brunswick, Michael Bublé and the Glen Miller Orchestra.

His dedication has been recognized with a long list of honours, including a Juno award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album (Swim) and ECMA awards for his albums Swim (2012 Origin Records), Dream Cassette (2016 Origin Records) and UNSTOPPABLE (2019 Multiple Chord Music). 

“Passionate and creative, melodic yet exploratory” -Sharonne Cohen, Downbeat Magazine

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