Aziza Miller: Live Your Life and Live It Like You Mean It!
Joe's Pub425 Lafayette Street, New York 10003
Aziza Miller brings Live Your Life and Live It Like You Mean It! to Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. The available listing identifies Miller as the sole billed act and offers no details about the set’s format, repertoire, guests, or accompanying musicians. Expect a performance led by an artist whose work spans original songwriting, composition, singing, and piano, while the specific formation for this date remains unannounced.
A New York City pianist, composer, singer-songwriter, and performer, Miller works in a fusion of funk, jazz, soul, Latin music, and spoken word. SoulTracks says she “spellbinds audiences with her original compositions and peerless musicianship.” She was Natalie Cole’s first musical director and pianist, and has also worked with Ahmad Jamal, Cecil Payne, and Ray Bryant. Her writing collaborations include Cole’s “La Costa,” Jamal’s “Whisperings,” Bryant’s “One Fine Day,” Tommy Turrentine’s “Big Brown Eyes,” and Ben Westbeech’s “Get Closer.” Reviewing This Journey of Love, Urban Music Scene called it “elegant, heartfelt and varied in its grooves” and “a filler-free winner.”
The stage is set in a converted library space with a striped bar and photos of legends like Leonard Cohen and Amy Winehouse lining the walls. You'll find yourself seated on velvet couches or at candle-lit tables, close enough to hear every note from the back. The sound, engineered by technicians who've worked with John Legend and The Notorious B.I.G., is consistently ranked among the best in New York. Three shows a day, dinner and drinks served throughout, and a menu ranging from Italian small plates to craft cocktails; it's a place where music and conversation flow together, and where both rising stars and legends have made their U.S. debuts.