After a very long career of playing bass with many different artists, touring the world, recording, playing Broadway shows etc., Steve has formed two trios of his own to showcase his own unique chordal and soloistic style of playing on the Contrabass Guitar. One being the Steve Millhouse Trio comprised of contrabass guitar, tenor saxophone and drums playing a mixture of Steve’s original compositions as well as songs from the great jazz composers. The first performance of the Trio was in Tokyo, Japan in February 2020. After a hiatus during the pandemic, Steve resumed performing with the Trio in April 2022 and the debut recording “The Unwinding” was released February 2023 on SteepleChase Records featuring Rich Perry on tenor saxophone and Eric Halvorson on drums with liner notes by Steve Swallow and Gary Fukushima.

Steve began playing with his second group in May of 2022, the Steve Millhouse Cinema Trio which draws from the vast body of musical work written for the cinema. It features Allen Farnham on piano and Eric Halvorson on drums playing their own arrangements of music from some of the greatest composers in the history of cinema including Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand, Johnny Mandel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jerome Kern, Sting, Disney and beyond. The arrangements are both an homage to the brilliant original scores of the past with a fresh new treatment and perspective.

Between 2010 and 2015 he toured the world with international star Ute Lemper. He played on her CD “Forever: The Love Poems of Pablo Neruda” released in 2013 and subsequent tour including a live DVD from the legendary Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Spain. The tour also played some of the other iconic venues of the world including the main hall of the Sydney Opera House, SF Jazz, the Sala São Paulo and a TV appearance in São Paolo Brazil. He also recorded her CD “The 9 Secrets” released in 2015.

Steve worked extensively on Broadway since 2007 to 2023 most recently playing electric and double bass for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He’s also played Elf at the Theater at Madison Square Garden; It Shoulda Been You in 2015; the 2015 Pippin tour in Tokyo Japan; the Broadway revivals of Pippin in 2013 and Godspell in 2011; the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular for five seasons; shows at the Daegu International Musical Festival in Daegu, South Korea in ’11 and ’12; and played for many other Broadway shows in NYC and Broadway tours around the US. Steve most recently played a tour of Dreamgirls in the US, Shanghai, China and Tokyo, Japan in late 2019 until February 2020. He has recently been touring with Jeremy Stolle and the Unreachable Stars in cities all across the US as well as nineteen cities throughout China in 2017 and 2018.

Steve has also performed in concert with a very long list of recording artists and Broadway stars, film stars and TV stars. He has played on Grammy nominated recordings; The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and It Shoulda Been You; The New Broadways Cast Recording of Pippin and Godspell; many local and national TV jingles and on many other artist’s recordings. Steve, from touring throughout the world, became an oenophile many years ago and since 2016 has owned a boutique fine wine shop in Greenwich, Connecticut called Wine Wise in addition to his busy music career.