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Marcus George (born (1986-02-28) 28 February 1986 (age 26)) is an English rugby league footballer for Halifax. Marcus began his career on Halifax's scholarship programme but turned professional with Huddersfield Giants. After rejecting a contract from the Huddersfield Giants, Marcus had a spell on a pay-as-you-play deal at the Bradford Bulls, the club he left to join Halifax in the 2006 season.^[1] He has since established himself as a first team regular at The Shay. Marcus plays in the Wing position. He scored 7-tries in 14-appearances in his first season with Halifax, and 12-tries from 13-appearances in his second season.

Genealogical Information[link]

Marcus George is the son of the rugby league footballer Wilf George, and the older brother of the rugby league footballer Luke George.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org

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George Marcus is an American anthropologist, founder of the journal Cultural Anthropology, and editor of the Late Editions series.

Biography[link]

Marcus served as the Joseph D. Jamail Professor at Rice University,^[1] where he chaired the anthropology department for 25 years. He currently holds the position of Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he established a Center for Ethnography, devoted to experiments and innovations in this form of inquiry.

Research[link]

Marcus has studied "elites" — people with a great amount of social power. He has researched and written about nobility in Tonga, an upper-class group with family fortunes in Galveston, Texas, and a Portuguese nobleman. In two books, Writing Culture and Anthropology as Cultural Critique, he argues that anthropologists typically frame their thoughts according to their own social, political and literary history, and are inclined to study people with less power and status than themselves.

Marcus pushed anthropology to pay greater attention to the modern world’s influence on communities once regarded as isolated. He advocated new research methods to reflect this contemporary focus, including how a community changes and disperses around the world. In the 1980s, most anthropologists studied people who had lived in the same location for hundreds of years, with a narrow focus on local, long-standing traditions. Today, an anthropologist interested in the people of Samoa, for example, would likely not only study life in the Samoan Islands, but also Samoan communities in New Zealand, Hawaii and California.

Marcus’ current focus involves looking at key institutions of great power, and their connections and consequences for ordinary people. With anthropologist Douglas R. Holmes, he is applying an anthropological research approach to people’s thought and decision-making processes in the operation of central banks in the U.S. and Europe.

Literary pursuits[link]

Marcus was the founding editor of Cultural Anthropology, the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and a top journal in its field. In the 1990s, Marcus edited an eight-volume series of annuals called Late Editions: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century, which documented the diverse social and cultural transitions at the turn of the millennium. The series covered a wide range of topics through conversations and interviews between scholars and individuals involved in the crucial processes of change.

Works[link]

• Anthropology as Cultural Critique (with Michael M. J. Fischer, Chicago, 1986, 2nd edition 1999)

Personal life[link]

He lives with his wife, the historian Patricia Seed, with whom he has two children, Rachel and Avery.

References[link]

George Shaw
George Shaw
Born	10 December 1751 Bierton, Buckinghamshire
Died	22 July 1813
Nationality	English
Fields	botany
Institutions	Oxford University

George Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.

Life[link]

Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University. He was a co-founder of the Linnean Society in 1788, and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1789.

In 1791 Shaw became assistant keeper of the natural history department at the British Museum, succeeding Edward Whitaker Gray as keeper in 1806. He found that most of the items donated to the museum by Hans Sloane were in very bad condition. Medical and anatomical material was sent to the museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, but many of the stuffed animals and birds had deteriorated and had to be burnt. He was succeeded after his death by his assistant Charles Konig.

Works[link]

Shaw published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several of the common Australian animals in his "Zoology of New Holland" (1794). He was among the first scientists to examine a platypus and published the first scientific description of it in The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799.

In the field of herpetology he described numerous new species of reptiles and amphibians.^[1]

His other publications included:

• Museum Leverianum, containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever (1792–6), which had been moved to be displayed at the Blackfriars Rotunda.
• General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History (16 vol.) (1809–1826) (volumes IX to XVI by James Francis Stephens) [1]
• The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures Of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature (1789–1813) with Frederick Polydore Nodder (artist and engraver).

The standard botanical author abbreviation G.Shaw is applied to species he described.

References[link]

• Mullens and Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917)
• William T. Stearn - The Natural History Museum at South Kensington ISBN 0-434-73600-7

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Marcus Miller
Miller in Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium, 2007
Background information
Birth name	William Henry Marcus Miller Jr.
Born	(1959-06-14) June 14, 1959 (age 53) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion, rhythm and blues, rock, funk
Occupations	Musician, composer, producer
Instruments	Bass, double bass, guitar, vocals, saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, recorder
Years active	1975–present
Associated acts	SMV, Miles Davis
Website	www.marcusmiller.com
Notable instruments
Fender Jazz Bass

Marcus Miller at Stockholm Jazz Fest 2009

Marcus Miller (born William Henry Marcus Miller Jr., June 14, 1959, Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist and also plays keyboards, saxophone and guitar.

Life and career[link]

Early life[link]

Miller was born in 1959 and raised in a musical family that includes his father, William Miller (a church organist and choir director) and jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. By 13, Marcus was proficient on clarinet, piano and bass guitar, and already writing songs. Two years later he was working regularly in New York City, eventually playing bass and writing music for jazz flautist Bobbi Humphrey and keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith. Miller soon became a first call session musician, gracing well over 500 albums, a short list of which includes Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Mariah Carey, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Frank Sinatra, Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Grover Washington Jr., Donald Fagen, Bill Withers, Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Me'shell Ndegé Ocello and Flavio Sala.

Professional career[link]

Miller at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, 2007

Miller spent approximately 15 years performing as a sideman or session musician, observing how band leaders operated. During that time he also did a lot of arranging and producing. He was a member of the Saturday Night Live band 1978-1979. He wrote the intro to Aretha Franklin's 'I Wanna Make It Up To You'. He has played bass on over 500 recordings including those of Luther Vandross, Grover Washington Jr., Roberta Flack, Carly Simon, McCoy Tyner, Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol. He won the "Most Valuable Player" award, (awarded by NARAS to recognize studio musicians) three years in a row and was subsequently awarded "player emeritus" status and retired from eligibility. In the nineties, Miller began to make his own records, putting a band together to take advantage of touring opportunities.

Miller's proficiency on his main instrument, the bass guitar, is generally well-regarded. Not only has Miller been involved in the continuing development of the technique known as "slapping", particularly his "thumb" technique, but his fretless bass technique has also served as an inspiration to many, and he has taken the fretless bass into musical contexts and genres previously unexplored. The influences of some of the previous generation of electric bass players, such as Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, and Jaco Pastorius, are audible in Miller's playing. Early in his career, Miller was accused of being simply imitative of Pastorius, but has since more fully integrated the latter's methodology into his own sound.

Miller has an extensive discography, and tours frequently and widely in Europe and Japan.

Between 1988 and 1990 he appeared in the first season and again toward the end as both the musical director and also as the house band bass player in the Sunday Night Band during the two seasons of the acclaimed music performance program Sunday Night on NBC late-night television.^[1]

As a composer, Miller wrote "Tutu" for Miles Davis, a piece that defined Davis's career in the late 1980s, and was the title track of Davis's album Tutu, upon which Miller wrote all the songs with only two exceptions, and one of those was co-written with Davis. He also composed "Chicago Song" for David Sanborn and co-wrote "'Til My Baby Comes Home", "It's Over Now", "For You to Love", and "Power of Love" for Luther Vandross. Miller also wrote "Da Butt", which was featured in Spike Lee's School Daze.

Personal life[link]

Miller has a wife and four children: two daughters and two sons, one of whom, Jon, recently graduated from Columbia University and now works for radio and television host Glenn Beck.

Grammy Awards[link]

Miller has won numerous Grammy Awards as a producer for Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chaka Khan and Wayne Shorter. He won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1992, for Luther Vandross' "Power of Love" and in 2001 he won for Best Contemporary Jazz Album for his fourth solo instrumental album, M2.

Miller currently has his own band. In 1997 he played bass and bass clarinet in a band called Legends, featuring Eric Clapton (guitars and vocals), Joe Sample (piano), David Sanborn (alto sax) and Steve Gadd (drums). It was an 11-date tour of major jazz festivals in Europe.

In addition to his recording and performance career, Miller has established a parallel career as a film score composer. He has written numerous scores for films featuring Eddie Murphy, L.L. Cool J, Chris Rock, Matthew Perry, Samuel L. Jackson and others. He composed the musical score for the Chris Rock-created sit-com, Everybody Hates Chris, now in syndication on Nick-At Nite.^[2]

Instruments and gear[link]

He plays a 1977 Fender Jazz Bass that was modified by Roger Sadowsky with the addition of a Bartolini preamp so he could control his sound in the studio. Fender currently produces a Marcus Miller signature Fender Jazz Bass in four- (made in Japan) and five-string (made in U.S) versions.^[3]

Discography[link]

Solo period (1982–present)

• 1983: Suddenly
• 1984: Marcus Miller
• 1993: The Sun Don't Lie
• 1995: Tales
• 1998: Live & More
• 2000: Best of '82-'96
• 2001: M² (2002 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album)
• 2002: The Ozell Tapes - Live 2001
• 2005: Silver Rain
• 2007: Free
• 2008: Marcus^[4]
• 2008: Thunder (as SMV, with Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten)
• 2010: A Night in Monte Carlo - Live 2009
• 2011: Tutu Revisited - Live 2010
• 2012: Renaissance

Luther Vandross period

• 1983: "Busy Body"
• 1985: "The Night I Fell In Love"
• 1985: "'Til My Baby Comes Home"
• 1985: "It's Over Now"
• 1986: "I Really Didn't Mean It"
• 1986: "Never Too Much"
• 1986: "She Won't Talk To Me"
• 1986: "Give Me the Reason"
• 1987: "Stop to Love"
• 1987: "See Me"
• 1988: "Luther In Love - Megamix"
• 1988: "Any Love"
• 1989: "The Best of Love"
• 1989: "Come Back"
• 1991: "The Rush"
• 1991: "Power of Love / Love Power (Uno Clio & Colin and Carl Remix)"
• 1991: "Power of Love / Love Power"
• 1991: "Power of Love"
• 1993: "Never Let Me Go"
• 1993: "Heaven Knows"
• 1995: "This Is Christmas"
• 1995: "Power of Love / Love Power (The Frankie Knuckles Mixes)"
• 1996: "Your Secret Love"
• 1996: "I Can Make It Better"
• 1998: "I Know"
• 2001: "Luther Vandross"
• 2003: "Dance With My Father"
• 2007: "Love, Luther"

Grover Washington jr period

• 1984: Inside Moves

David Sanborn period (1975–2000)

• 1977: Lovesongs
• 1980: Hideaway
• 1981: Voyeur
• 1981: As We Speak
• 1982: Backstreet
• 1984: Straight to the Heart
• 1987: Change of Heart
• 1988: Close-Up
• 1991: Another Hand
• 1992: Upfront
• 1994: Hearsay
• 1995: Pearls
• 1996: Songs from the Night Before
• 1999: Inside

Miles Davis period (1980–1990)

• 1981: The Man with the Horn
• 1982: We Want Miles
• 1983: Star People
• 1986: Tutu
• 1987: Music From Siesta
• 1989: Amandla
• 2002: The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux

The Jamaica Boys period (1986–1990)

• 1987: The Jamaica Boys
• 1989: The Jamaica Boys II: J. Boys

Film scores

• 1990: "House Party" (featuring Kid & Play)
• 1992: "Boomerang" (featuring Eddie Murphy)
• 1994: "Above the Rim" (featuring Tupac Shakur)
• 1994: "A Low Down Dirty Shame" (featuring Keenan Ivory Wayans)
• 1996: "The Great White Hype" (featuring Samuel L. Jackson)
• 1997: "The Sixth Man" (featuring Marlon Wayans)
• 1999: "An American Love Story"
• 2000: "The Ladies Man" (featuring Tim Meadows)
• 2001: "The Trumpet of the Swan" (featuring Reese Witherspoon)
• 2001: "The Brothers" (featuring Morris Chestnut)
• 2001: "Two Can Play That Game" (featuring Vivaca Fox)
• 2002: "Serving Sara" (featuring Matthew Perry)
• 2003: "Deliver Us from Eva" (featuring L.L. Cool J)
• 2003: "Head of State" (featuring Chris Rock)
• 2004: "Breakin' All the Rules" (featuring Jamie Foxx)
• 2005: "King's Ransom" (featuring Anthony Anderson)
• 2006: "Save the Last Dance 2" (featuring Izabella Miko)
• 2007: "I Think I Love My Wife" (featuring Chris Rock)
• 2007: "This Christmas" (featuring Idris Elba)
• 2008: "Thunder" (featuring Stanley Clark and Victor Wooten)
• 2009: "Good Hair" (featuring Chris Rock as SMV)
• 2009: "Obsessed" (featuring Beyoncé Knowles)

With Dizzy Gillespie

• Closer to the Source (Atlantic, 1984)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Marcus Miller

• Official website
• HoneySoul interview
• Jazzitalia interview
• Jazz USA interview
• The Dude Pit interview
• NPR interview
• Podcast featuring GRP Records and Marcus Miller

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George Duke
Duke at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1986
Background information
Born	(1946-01-12) 12 January 1946 (age 66) San Rafael, California, United States
Genres	Jazz fusion, R&B, funk,[1] alternative rock, rock and roll, jazz pop,[1] post-disco,[1] crossover jazz[1]
Occupations	Musician Composer Musical director Producer Educator
Instruments	Vocals, piano, synthesizer, Keytar, keyboards, contrabass, trombone
Years active	1967– present
Labels	Pacific Jazz, Pickwick, MPS/SABA, MPS/BASF, Atlantic, Epic/CBS, Elektra, Warner Bros., Bizarre, Telarc Jazz, Heads Up
Associated acts	Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio, Frank Zappa, Cannonball Adderley
Website	George Duke official site.com
Notable instruments
Moog synthesizer

Clarke and Duke in concert

George Duke (born 12 January 1946 in San Rafael, California)^[2] is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music. He first made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He is known primarily for thirty-odd solo albums as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa.

Career[link]

Early years[link]

Duke attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley before earning a bachelor's degree in trombone and composition with a minor in contrabass, from the San Francisco Conservatory in 1967.^[2] Playing initially with friends from garages to local clubs, Duke quickly eased his way into session work, which refined his abilities and expanded his approach to music. (He later earned his Masters Degree in composition from San Francisco State University. His website mentions a short stint teaching a course on Jazz And American Culture at Merritt Junior College in Oakland).^[2] Beginning in 1967 Duke experimented further with jazz fusion, playing and recording with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, as well as performing with the Don Ellis Orchestra, and Cannonball Adderley's band, while he acquainted himself with the avantgarde musician Frank Zappa.^[3] Duke appeared on a number of Frank Zappa's albums in the early and mid-1970s, including Chunga's Revenge, 200 Motels, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Apostrophe, Over-Nite Sensation, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury and Roxy & Elsewhere.

Duke's other high-profile collaborators include Jean-Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham,^{[citation needed]} Cannonball Adderley, his cousin Dianne Reeves, Deniece Williams, Jeffrey Osborne, George Clinton, Anita Baker, Regina Belle, Rachelle Ferrell, Marilyn Scott and Mike Mainieri's jazz fusion group Steps Ahead, for whom he produced the track "Magnetic Love." Duke played on Herb Ellis' album, Soft Shoe (Concord, 1974) with Harry Sweets Edison; Duke played the piano and organ.

He also served as a record producer and composer on two instrumental tracks on Miles Davis albums: "Backyard Ritual" (from Tutu, 1986) and "Cobra" (from Amandla, 1989). He has also worked with a number of notable Brazilian musicians, including singer Milton Nascimento, percussionist Airto Moreira and singer Flora Purim. Sheila E appeared on Duke's late-1970s solo albums Don't Let Go and Master of the Game.

Duke had been fairly visible in the R&B world releasing funk-based songs like "Reach for It" and "Dukey Stick". In 1979 he traveled to Rio de Janeiro, where he recorded A Brazilian Love Affair. He employed singers Flora Purim and Milton Nascimento and percussionist Airto Moreira. The album featured some Latin jazz and jazz-influenced material. From a jazz standpoint, the album's most noteworthy songs include Nascimento's "Cravo e Canela," "Love Reborn," and "Up from the Sea It Arose and Ate Rio in One Swift Bite." In addition was "Brazilian Sugar" which was featured on the 2006 video game Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. Meanwhile, Nascimento's vocal on the ballad "Ao Que Vai Nascer" is an example of Brazilian pop at its most sensuous. This acclaimed album contained a wide variety of genres.

Duke has also worked as musical director at numerous large-scale musical events, including the Nelson Mandela tribute concert at Wembley Stadium, London in 1988. In 1989, he temporarily replaced Marcus Miller as musical director of NBC's acclaimed late-night music performance program Sunday Night during its first season.^[4] Duke was also a judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers. ^[5]

"No Rhyme or No Reason" can be heard during the period of time designated as Quiet Storm.

Duke's songs have been used by a wide variety of contemporary musicians in a wide array of genres. These include: "I Love You More", sampled by house music-act Daft Punk for their hit "Digital Love"; "Guilty", sampled by electronica music artist Mylo in his song "Guilty of Love" on Destroy Rock & Roll.

"For Love", sampled by underground hip hop artist MF Doom on his track "I Hear Voices";

"Someday", sampled by hip hop artist/producer Kanye West for Common in "Break My Heart" on his "Finding Forever" album; "You and Me", sampled and used by soul/rhythm and blues influenced hip hop-producer 9th Wonder for his collaboration album with Kaze for the track "Spirit Of '94" on the album Spirit Of '94: Version 9.0; and "Reach for It", sampled by Ice Cube in "True to the Game" on his Death Certificate album and Spice 1 in "In My Neighborhood" on his self-titled debut album.

Recently, Duke worked with Jill Scott on her third studio album, The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3; guesting on the track, "Whenever You're Around". Since it was released it has peaked at No.56 on U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.

In the Summer of 2011, he put together a trio with David Sanborn and Marcus Miller for a tour across the USA of more than 20 sold out shows.

Discography[link]

As Leader[link]

¹ Rereleased as "The Primal" by MPS in 1978.
² Rereleased as "Pacific Jazz" by United Artists in 1978 albeit with a different tracklisting.
³ Solus was recorded in April 1971 and intended to be released as a single album by SABA but when SABA folded and became MPS the powers that be decided to postpone its release. They finally put it out as a double album in 1976 together with George's MPS debut "The Inner Source". The latter was recorded in October 1971.
⁴ Recorded in 1976 and released in 1978 (Europe-only). Released in the USA (in a slightly different version) as "The 1976 Solo Keyboard Album" by Epic/CBS in 1982.

As Sideman[link]

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• Sunburst (Blue Note, 1975)

With Alphonse Mouzon

• The Man Incognito (Blue Note, 1975)

With Airto Moreira

• Virgin Land (Salvation, 1974)

With Flora Purim

• That's What She Said (Milestone Records, 1978)

With Michael Jackson

• Off the Wall (Epic, 1979)

With Miles Davis

• Tutu (Warner Bros, 1986)
• Amandla (Warner Bros, 1989)

With Jean-Luc Ponty

• Individual Choice (Atlantic, 1983)

With Dianne Reeves

• Dianne Reeves (Blue Note, 1987)
• Never Too Far (EMI, 1989)
• Quiet After The Storm (Blue Note, 1995)
• Bridges (Blue Note, 1999)
• In the Moment – Live in Concert (Blue Note, 2000)

With Regina Belle

• Lazy Afternoon (2004)

With Deniece Williams

• Let's Hear It For the Boy (Columbia, 1984)
• Love, Niecy Style (Shanachie, 2007)

With Joe Sample

• Sample This (Warner Bros, 1997)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: George Duke

• Official site
• George Duke at NPR Music
• George Duke interview at allaboutjazz.com "New album, more treats".
• George Duke interview at allaboutjazz.com "Deja Vu".
• George Duke 2012 Interview Part 1 at Soulinterviews.com.
• George Duke 2012 Interview Part 2 at Soulinterviews.com.