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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Andy Milne
Person · male · Canada · Hamilton · born 1967 · recording since 1997
Canadian musician
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Also known as アンディ・ミルン
Timeline
8 events▣ Album 6◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1960s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Forward to Get Back
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography163 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1341142873
Biography
Andy Milne (born January 30, 1969) is a Canadian jazz pianist, who records and performs both as a solo artist and as the leader of the ensemble Dapp Theory. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and raised in Kincardine and Toronto. One of ten siblings, he studied music at York University, where he was a student of Oscar Peterson.
In 1990 Milne graduated and received a grant from the Canada Council to study at the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts. He met saxophonist Steve Coleman and later joined Coleman's band, Five Elements. In 1998, Milne formed the band Cosmic Dapp Theory.
He has toured and recorded with Ravi Coltrane, Grégoire Maret, Sean Rickman, and Ralph Alessi.
His 2018 album The Seasons of Being
The Seasons of BeingSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 9 tracks1Surge & Splendor6:542The Cusp4:533The Guardian5:564Scotopia5:265Satanama4:266Three‐Way Mirror9:197Ancestree5:328Luminescence3:269Capturing the Castle5:41 won the Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year – Group at the Juno Awards of 2019.
Awards and honors
Voted Rising Star Keyboardist, Down Beat magazine, 2004
New Works Commission grant and French-America Jazz Exchange grant, Chamber Music America, 2006
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 23 | 51.9th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (7 release groups · 7 studio albums)
Albums · 7
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:04:06
1Housework6:132Copit4:353Betwixt and Between10:114Hemispheres5:255Time Resolution4:516Teefah3:137Boobitty3:368New Blood Drive5:549Waiting On-line7:1710Unconcious Knowing4:1911Summons to the Dance8:322007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 48:08
1Amelia6:292Geewa2:553Message in a Bottle5:514I Shot the Sheriff5:485After the Goldrush5:156The Times They Are A-Changin'4:247The Metamorph3:238Don't Let It Bring You Down4:199Sensei-tions1:3010The Circle Game6:3211Danny Boy1:422007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 46:36
1Headache in Residence4:582Pharos of Alexandria3:433As Far as we Know4:144Con Alma6:135Follow Me3:366House of Fisher2:567Couch Talk5:248Steps from Body to Soul8:009Intersections1:2010Crystal Labyrinth3:0911Moon River3:032014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:04:59
1Hopscotch5:572Photographs8:283In The Mirror, Darkly6:324Search Party7:275Katharsis7:176Nice To Meet You6:107The Trust6:128How And When Versus What5:049Fourteen Fingers2:3510Headache In Residence9:172018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 51:33
1Surge & Splendor6:542The Cusp4:533The Guardian5:564Scotopia5:265Satanama4:266Three‐Way Mirror9:197Ancestree5:328Luminescence3:269Capturing the Castle5:412020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 51:53
1Passion Dance5:032Resolution6:583Winter Palace4:204Vertical on Opening Night3:395Drive By - The Fall7:236Anything About Anything4:177Dancing on the Savannah4:208The Call5:089Geewa3:5710Sad to Say6:48— · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:13:13
1Look and See6:372Nine One 14:223Happy Journey5:234Bass Set7:195Waiting for Don6:556The Call5:387Black Hole Rock4:228Ballade4:559Fret No More4:1210Girl of My Dreams4:3711Opus--Tres Huevos3:5412Sw3:1413Swarhia (Malega)2:2914Looking for Love4:0115Song for 2 Don's (Anthem)5:15
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Andy Milne head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 23 | 51.9th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Coleman and Five Elements(band) | — | present | |
| Dapp Theory(band) | — | present | synthesizer |
| Dapp Theory(band) | — | present | piano |
| Dapp Theory(band) | — | present | keyboard |
| Dapp Theory(band) | — | present | |
| Unison(band) | — | present |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andy_Milne_%284096103878%29.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0845575d-e93b-475e-9924-486676897f89discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0845575d-e93b-475e-9924-486676897f89core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526748genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526748seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Milnebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Milne
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Canadian musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Bob Doran from Arcata, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q526748 · MusicBrainz: 0845575d-e93b-475e-9924-486676897f89
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