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Apart from presenting on Jazz FM, Marcus Millers day job is as a jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, but he is best known as a bass guitarist. Throughout his career, Marcus worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a successful solo career. He is classically trained as a clarinetist and also plays keyboards, saxophone and guitar. As a composer, he wrote all but two of the songs on Tutu for Miles Davis, including its title track a piece that defined Daviss career in the late 1980s. He also composed Chicago Song for David Sanborn and co-wrote Til My Baby Comes Home, Its Over Now, For You to Love, and Power of Love for Luther Vandross. Marcus 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 seventh solo instrumental album, M². His 2015 album, Afrodeezia, earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album.