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Claude Ranger: Canadian Jazz Legend
Even before Claude Ranger disappeared in late 2000, his fate unknown, he had attained legendary status among Canada’s jazz musicians as an extraordinary drummer who repeatedly challenged the status quo on bandstands in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Willful, uncompromising and charismatic, cigarette invariably tucked into the left corner of his mouth, Ranger cut a compelling figure alongside Canadian and American stars alike — Lenny Breau, Jane Bunnett, Sonny Greenwich, Moe Koffman, P.J. Perry, Dewey Redman, Sonny Rollins, Don Thompson and many others. Claude Canadian Jazz Legend presents a sympathetic portrait of this remarkable musician and offers a perceptive overview of the Canadian jazz scene during the 35 years in which, by turns, his career flourished, faltered and flourished again.
280 pages, Paperback
Published April 17, 2017
About the author
Mark Miller
13 booksMark Miller has been a writer -- journalist, critic, author, historian --and photographer in the field of music, specifically jazz, for more than 35 years. He is the author of 10 books and served from 1978 to 2005 as the jazz columnist for Canada's National Newspaper, "The Globe and Mail." He has also written for "Coda Magazine," "Down Beat," "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz," "Encyclopedia of Music in Canada," "Saturday Night" and several other popular and scholarly publications.
His interests as an author and historian lay in musicians and stories that have been lost, forgotten or overlooked in the annals of jazz. His books include several studies of jazz in Canada -- notably "Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949" (1998) and "The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada" (2001) -- and a survey of the pioneering American musicians who introduced jazz to Europe, Asia and South America, "Some Hustling This! -- Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929" (2005).
He has also written the biographies "High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm: The Life and Music of Valaida Snow" (2007) and "Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist's Life" (2009), as well as the biographical studies "Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada, 1953" (1989) and "Way Down That Lonesome Road: Lonnie Johnson in Toronto, 1965-1970" (2011). Some of his several thousand articles for "The Globe and Mail" were anthologized in "A Certain Respect for Tradition: Mark Miller on Jazz, Selected Writings 1980-2005" (2006).
Miller has been described as "the dean of Canadian jazz journalists" ("The Jazz Report," Spring 1998) and is often praised for the clarity of his writing and the depth of his research.
He lives in Toronto.
His interests as an author and historian lay in musicians and stories that have been lost, forgotten or overlooked in the annals of jazz. His books include several studies of jazz in Canada -- notably "Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949" (1998) and "The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada" (2001) -- and a survey of the pioneering American musicians who introduced jazz to Europe, Asia and South America, "Some Hustling This! -- Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929" (2005).
He has also written the biographies "High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm: The Life and Music of Valaida Snow" (2007) and "Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist's Life" (2009), as well as the biographical studies "Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada, 1953" (1989) and "Way Down That Lonesome Road: Lonnie Johnson in Toronto, 1965-1970" (2011). Some of his several thousand articles for "The Globe and Mail" were anthologized in "A Certain Respect for Tradition: Mark Miller on Jazz, Selected Writings 1980-2005" (2006).
Miller has been described as "the dean of Canadian jazz journalists" ("The Jazz Report," Spring 1998) and is often praised for the clarity of his writing and the depth of his research.
He lives in Toronto.
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