Ron Miles

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

Life and work

Miles grew up in his youth in Denver and began with the trumpet under the influence of the music of Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson. He studied and worked from 1981 to 1985 at the University of Colorado with John Gunther, and in 1986 he graduated from the Manhattan School of Music. He then became Assistant Professor of Music at Metropolitan State College of Denver. 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 Mercer Ellington led Ellington Orchestra. From the mid- 1990s, he worked with Ginger Baker ( Coward of the County, 1999) and with Bill Frisell on the album Quartet ( 1996) and 1999 The Sweetest Punch with Frisell's arrangements of compositions by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. In 2001 he took with Frisell duo album Heaven ( on the label Sterling Circle ). In the same year he worked with on The Anomaly by DJ Logic. Followed in 2002 by Laughing Barrel as a quartet with guitarist Brandon Ross, bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Rudy Royston. Miles also took on albums with tenor saxophonist Fred Hess, the singer Joe Henry and Wayne Horvitz.

The authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton see no explicit references when " namesake " Miles Davis; Rather, Ron Miles integral attention to his quartet album Laughing Barrel, she excelled with the highest rating, influences of Joe Oliver ( Parade ) to Dave Douglas.

Disco Graphical Notes

• My Cruel Heart ( Gramavision, 1996)
• Woman's Day ( Gramavision, 1997)
• Ron Miles Trio ( Capri, 2000).
• Heaven ( Sterling Circle, 2001) with Bill Frisell
• Laughing Barrel (Sterling Circle, 2002)
• Blossom / Stone ( Sterling Circle, 2006)
• Quiver ( Enja, 2012)

Swell

• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 9th Edition, London, Penguin, 2008 ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.