- Jamie Muir was born on November 30, 1942 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Ghost Dance (1983), Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973) and Top Ten (1995). He died on February 17, 2025 in Cornwall, England, UK.
- He attended the Edinburgh College of Art during the 1960s, and began playing jazz on trombone. He soon lost interest and switched to percussion, stating that he preferred to be "in the wilds of uncertainty.".
- Jamie Muir, left the band King Crimson to become a Buddhist monk in 1973.
- Jamie Muir was a Scottish painter and musician, best known for his work as the percussionist in King Crimson from 1972-1973, appearing prominently on their fifth album Larks' Tongues In Aspic.
- In the summer of 1972, Muir received a call from Robert Fripp, and was invited to join what was to become a new incarnation of King Crimson, with a lineup that came to be, according to Muir, focused on "group potential and creating monstrous power in music." During his tenure with the band, Muir occasionally played a standard drum kit, but more often he contributed an assortment of unusual sounds from a wide variety of percussion instruments, including chimes, bells, gongs, mbiras, a musical saw, shakers, rattles, found objects, and miscellaneous drums.
- Muir would attend that Edinburgh College Of Art in the 60s. Early on he was intrigued with jazz music.
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