Bill Miller (February 3, 1915 – July 11, 2006) was an American jazz pianist, who accompanied Frank Sinatra for more than 50 years, and for the last eight years of his life, accompanied Frank Sinatra Jr. Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York.
[1] First meeting Sinatra in 1941, they did not work together until November 1951, when Miller was performing in the lounge of the Desert Inn, in Las Vegas.
[4] Miller's house was destroyed in a 1964 mudslide in Burbank, California, which also claimed the life of his wife, Aimee.
He was abruptly dismissed for no apparent reason by Sinatra in 1978, but was invited back in 1985.
Miller died "on the road", while touring with Sinatra, Jr., from complications following a heart attack, at Montreal General Hospital at age 91.