Paul Eduard Miller, (1902–1972) was a jazz critic and journalist. He began writing for Down Beat in the 1930s, eventually becoming a contributing editor, and he edited their jazz yearbook in 1939. From November 1940 until August 1941, he served as editor of a side publication called Music and Rhythm, with many of the regular Down Beat writers contributing. From 1944 to 1947 he was the jazz editor of Esquire and edited Esquire’s immensely popular jazz yearbooks, publishing his own Yearbook of Popular Music in 1943. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he hosted a radio show on Friday and Saturday nights on WXRT-FM in Chicago called “This is Jazz.”

Miller seems to have preferred traditional jazz, and had great respect for New Orleans jazzman Sidney Bechet in particular. Miller apparently never lost an opportunity to praise Bechet’s musicianship in print and repeatedly named the reed player to his all-star roster in Esquire’s Jazz Book, including a double mention in 1946. In 1946 and 1947 Miller presented Bechet in a series of concerts at Kimball Hall in Chicago. He also entertained Bechet at his home on several occasions during the 1940s.

Miller wrote an ambitious critical study entitled “The Best Jazz” which was never published.