Egon on Instagram: "Lloyd Miller had been homeless more than once. On purpose, mind you – living out of his car so he could be the itinerant musician. He told me he moved to Iran partially because it was warm there, and it made automobile housing a bit more comfortable (Lloyd’s dad’s job had a lot to do with his move too; he also said he was told by a Mormon Bishop that he would find his calling in music there.) Lloyd had recorded music with Jef Gilson and Henri Texier in Paris in the early 1960s; he had played with Tony Scott and Romano Mussolini and many others. He had founded his own East West Records while studying and teaching at the University of Utah and put out all of his classic records before he moved to Iran, became Kurosh Ali Khan, and hosted a television show up until the Revolution. How he left Iran is subject to Lloyd’s description, but I recall him telling me stories of visions of blood and the terror of fleeing the one place he had felt accepted, comfortable, at home in his life. By the early 1980s, Lloyd was convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated arson and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud around he and his wife’s Khyber Kitchen restaurant and his New Eastern Third World Gifts music shop in Salt Lake City. This, mind you, was after Lloyd had returned to Utah after spending seven years in Iran, speaking Farsi, Iraqi and Arabic, and trying to establish something of a mini-bazaar in the Mormon Capital. If you weren’t around in the early 1980s, you might forget just how many Americans despised Iranians. Middle Eastern folks in general. The plot involved an FBI informant and - I quote from the Utah Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Lloyd’s conviction - “a bizarre scheme was discussed to steal red-eye missiles from a military base and fly them in a World War II bomber to fighters resisting the Russians in Afghanistan.” There’s a documentary film about this, based on Lloyd’s semi-fictional memoir, both of the same title: ‘The Sufi, The Saint, and The Swinger.’ #LloydMiller #SpiritualJazz"

2,746 likes, 11 comments - nowagain on December 31, 2024: "Lloyd Miller had been homeless more than once. On purpose, mind you – living out of his car so he could be the itinerant musician. He told me he moved to Iran partially because it was warm there, and it made automobile housing a bit more comfortable (Lloyd’s dad’s job had a lot to do with his move too; he also said he was told by a Mormon Bishop that he would find his calling in music there.) Lloyd had recorded music with Jef Gilson and Henri Texier in Paris in the early 1960s; he had played with Tony Scott and Romano Mussolini and many others. He had founded his own East West Records while studying and teaching at the University of Utah and put out all of his classic records before he moved to Iran, became Kurosh Ali Khan, and hosted a television show up until the Revolution. How he left Iran is subject to Lloyd’s description, but I recall him telling me stories of visions of blood and the terror of fleeing the one place he had felt accepted, comfortable, at home in his life. By the early 1980s, Lloyd was convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated arson and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud around he and his wife’s Khyber Kitchen restaurant and his New Eastern Third World Gifts music shop in Salt Lake City. This, mind you, was after Lloyd had returned to Utah after spending seven years in Iran, speaking Farsi, Iraqi and Arabic, and trying to establish something of a mini-bazaar in the Mormon Capital. If you weren’t around in the early 1980s, you might forget just how many Americans despised Iranians. Middle Eastern folks in general. The plot involved an FBI informant and - I quote from the Utah Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Lloyd’s conviction - “a bizarre scheme was discussed to steal red-eye missiles from a military base and fly them in a World War II bomber to fighters resisting the Russians in Afghanistan.” There’s a documentary film about this, based on Lloyd’s semi-fictional memoir, both of the same title: ‘The Sufi, The Saint, and The Swinger.’ #LloydMiller #SpiritualJazz".