{{BLP refimprove|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jamal Millner | image = Jamal Millner with John D'earth at Miller's Downtown Mall Charlottesville VA May 2010.jpg | caption = With John D'earth<br />At Miller's, May 13, 2010<br />Charlottesville, Virginia | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|02|26}} | birth_place = West Virginia, U.S. | genre = Black American Music<br/> Western European Art Music | occupation = Musician | instrument = Guitar | years_active = }}

'''Jamal Millner''' (born February 26, 1971) is an American guitarist from West Virginia, who was a member of the band 5x5 led by Corey Harris.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/arts/blues-review-a-bouncy-collage-of-styles-each-given-a-personal-twist.html |title=A Bouncy Collage of Styles, Each Given a Personal Twist |last=Pareles |first=John |date=13 June 2002 |website=The New York Times |accessdate=15 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aspentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040206/AE/40205025 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-09-15 |archive-date=2012-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922081704/http://www.aspentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040206/AE/40205025 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Early life== His parents went to "lots of shows".<ref name=":0" /> When he was four they took him to a Taj Mahal show and he got up on stage and played his plastic guitar.<ref name=":0" /> This was his very first "gig".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.c-ville.com/Checking_in_with_Jamal_Millner/#.Wg2bGmhSzIU|title=Checking in with Jamal Millner - C-VILLE Weekly|date=2011-02-22|work=C-VILLE Weekly|access-date=2017-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Discography== ===As leader=== * ''Phatness'' (1997)

===As sideman=== *2018 : ''To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger'' - John McCutcheon - Guitar (Electric) *2015 : ''Live! From Turtle Island'' - Corey Harris - Composer *2009 : ''Chioggia Beat'' - Morwenna Lasko - Engineer, Guitar (Electric) *2003 : ''Box of the Blues'' - Various artists - Producer, Guitar *2003 : ''Mississippi to Mali'' - Corey Harris - Engineer, Photography *2003 : ''Sleeping Lines'' - Plink - Guitar *2002 : ''Downhome Sophisticate'' - Corey Harris - Producer, Arranger, Composer *2001 : ''Untethered'' - Gar Ragland - Composer *1999 : ''Greens from the Garden'' - Corey Harris and the 5x5 - Guitar, Producer, Arranger *1999 : ''Live at the End of the World'' - Baaba Seth - Producer *1996 : ''Between White and Black'' - Barbara Martin - Bottleneck Guitar

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==External links== * [http://grownfolksmusic.com/blog/gfm-spotlight-interview-jamal-millner-blak-gsus-pt-3-finale Interview with Millner by ''Grown Folks Music''] <!--Interview is audio, not text--> * {{imdbname|2610704|Jamal Millner}} * [https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/07/northam-blackface-virginia-history These Virginians Say The State's Blackface Controversy Is Disappointing But Not Surprising], article in ''wbur''

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