Miles Mosley

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Miles Mosley at the INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018

Miles Mosley (* 1980 in Hollywood ) is an American fusion musician ( vocals , double bass , composition).

Live and act

Mosley, who was named after Miles Davis and grew up with jazz , received music training at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles; he was tutored by musicians such as John Clayton , Ray Brown and Al McKibbon . As a teenager, he won the Los Angeles Music Center's Spotlight Award . The jazz critic Don Heckman described him as a "technical virtuoso". The Süddeutsche Zeitung praises his ability to use effects devices to “alienate his double bass to such an extent that it ultimately becomes a completely new instrument. One that develops an enormous spectrum from full orchestral sound to rhythm attacks, from soft melancholy to brutal heaviness, and allows him to play solo passages that ... clearly remind of Jimi Hendrix 's excesses of blues guitar . "

After he was hired as bassist for the Grammy All-American High School Jazz Band & Choir in 1996 , he began a career as a studio musician ; he worked with Christina Aguilera , Chris Cornell , Jonathan Davis , Everlast , Terrence Howard , Joni Mitchell , Lauryn Hill , Kenny Loggins , Gnarls Barkley , Jeff Beck , Common , Avenged Sevenfold, and Kamasi Washington . Since 2005 he has presented his own albums on which he fused jazz with soul , funk and rock music . He also founded the group The West Coast Get Down , but also toured with Jonathan Davis, Lauryn Hill, Harvey Mason , Kendrick Lamar , India.Arie , Chris Cornell, Mos Def , Common, Herbie Hancock and Andra Day . He also wrote the music for the film Fallen Angels - Everyone needs an angel… .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mixture of forces Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 18, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mosley, Miles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fusion musician (vocals, double bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood