Harry Miller was born Harold Simon Miller on April 25, 1941 in Cape Town, West Cape, South Africa. He began his career as a bassist with Manfred Mann, and settled in London. He became a central figure in the mixture of South-African township music and free jazz, which became dynamic on the London scene at the end of the Sixties and into the Seventies.

Miller recorded frequently with musicians such as Mike Westbrook, Chris McGregor, John Surnam, Mike Cooper, Louis Moholo, Keith Tippett and Elton Dean. He found work as a session player and…