Punch Miller
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Ernest Miller aka Punch Miller or Kid Punch Miller(born June 10, 1894 in Raceland, Louisiana; died December 2, 1971) was a Dixieland jazz trumpeter.
He was known locally from an early point and in 1927 he worked in Chicago with Jelly Roll Morton. His lifestyle and the decline of Dixieland or New Orleans jazz led to his return to mostly doing festivals and falling out of the limelight. This changed with the rising importance of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and he returned to national attention. In 1963 he did a tour of Japan with George Lewis. He was the subject of the television documentary Til the Butcher Cuts him down.[1]
