Harold Simon Miller (25 April 1941 – 16 December 1983)[1] was a South African jazz double bassist, who lived for most of his adulthood in England.
A native of Cape Town, South Africa, Miller began his career playing bass for the rock group Manfred Mann.
[2] After settling in London, he became part of a groups of musicians in the 1960s and 1970s who combined free jazz with the music of South Africa.
He recorded with Elton Dean,[1] Chris McGregor,[3] Louis Moholo,[3] John Surman,[1] Keith Tippett,[4] and Mike Westbrook,[2] and also led his own band, Isipingo, named after a vacation spot in South Africa.
[5] At the end of the 1970s, he moved to the Netherlands for economic reasons and worked with musicians in Willem Breuker's circle.