[1][2] He lived in Iran for seven years, and worked as an arts writer and public relations officer.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Miller performed jazz with musicians such as Don Ellis and Eddie Harris.
[5] In 1969, he won the national Sounds of Young America composers contest for his piece "Yona."
Known as Kurosh Ali Khan, he hosted a television show in Iran during the 1970s and worked as a journalist for several Iranian publications.
His mother, Maxine Adams Miller, authored Bright Blue Beads: An American Family In Persia.