ÒMark Miller['s] trademark clean writing style makes the years, and dozens of forgotten musicians, fly past...Ó Ñ James Hale, The Jazz Report // Mark Miller is a Toronto writer and critic. He has completed five other books about jazz, including The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada and Canadians in Jazz (2001) and Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949 (1997), as well as Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada, 1953 (1989), Boogie, Pete & The Senator: Canadian Musicians in Jazz, the Eighties (1987) and Jazz in Canada: Fourteen Lives (1982). The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada received the Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsÕ Award for Excellence for Best Research in Recorded Jazz (History) in 2002. // Jazz critic for The Globe and Mail from 1978 to 2005, Mark Miller has also written for Down Beat, Coda, Saturday Night, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and many other popular and scholarly pub_lications.