Ron Miles

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ron Miles at a concert with Bill Frisell (Innsbruck, 2009)

Ron Miles (* 9. May 1963 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) is an American trumpeter of modern jazz .

Live and act

Miles grew up in Denver in his youth and began playing the trumpet under the influence of the music of Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson . He studied and worked at the University of Colorado with John Gunther from 1981 to 1985 , and graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in 1986 . He then became an Assistant Professor of Music at Denver's Metropolitan State College . In 1986 he recorded two albums under his own name ( Distance for Safety and Witness ). In 1992 he played in a theater orchestra that toured Italy and then in the Ellington Orchestra conducted by Mercer Ellington . From the mid-1990s he worked with Ginger Baker ( Coward of the County , 1999) and with Bill Frisell on his album Quartet (1996) and in 1999 on The Sweetest Punch with Frisell's arrangements of compositions by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach . In 2001 he recorded the duo album Heaven with Frisell (on the Sterling Circle label). In the same year he appeared on The Anomaly by DJ Logic . In 2002, Laughing Barrel followed in a quartet with guitarist Brandon Ross , bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Rudy Royston . Miles also recorded albums with tenor saxophonist Fred Hess , singer Joe Henry and Wayne Horvitz . In 2016 he participated in Matt Wilson's poetry & jazz production Honey and Salt: Music Inspired by the Poetry of Carl Sandburg .

The authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton see no explicit references to the "namesake" Miles Davis ; Rather, Ron Miles integrated influences from King Oliver ( Parade ) to Dave Douglas, especially on his quartet album Laughing Barrel , which they awarded with the highest rating .

Discographic notes

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Miles, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis , Indiana