Lloyd Miller is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and multi-linguist. He has been fusing jazz with international folk and classical forms since the early 1960s. He can play more than 100 instruments. Though he began his professional career playing internationally with Don Ellis and Eddie Harris during the '50s, his interest in jazz led him to pianist Jef Gilson's Paris-based studio group where was featured on 1961's Jef Gilson Septet avec Lloyd Miller. He issued the 1968 classic Oriental Jazz while studying for his doctorate at Brigham Young University. During the 1970s, he studied in Tehran and roamed the Middle East, making field recordings and collecting instruments. He hosted a television show there, booking American jazz and traditional Persian musicians. Miller returned to recording with Etruscan Impressions in 1993. In 2010 Strut released Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics. 2020's At the Ends of the World was followed by a retrospective of unissued material titled Orientations: 1960-2021.