Following the success of bassist extraordinaire Marcus Miller’s M2, Grammy Award-winning Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2001, one of the most critically acclaimed recordings of the year, 3 Deuces Records proudly announces the release of The Ozell Tapes: The Official Bootleg. The live double album, the artist’s compilation of the best of his 2002 tour dates, promises to be raw, real and the next best thing to having been there. This latest recording from the award-winning producer/composer/ba …

Born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York, Marcus Miller came from a musical family. He was influenced early on by his father, a church organist and choir director, as well as his musical extended family (which included the extraordinary Wynton Kelly, jazz pianist for Miles Davis during the late fifties and early sixties!). He displayed an early affinity for all types of music. By the age of thirteen he was already proficient on the clarinet, piano, and bass guitar and had begun c …