Denver jazz cornetist, composer and educator Ron Miles has died at the age of 58.
When Frisell toldabout the decades he’d known Miles, he chose his words thoughtfully, sometimes trailing off before starting again. He told the story of a cassette tape he got from Miles, delivered by their mutual friend, producer Hans Wendl. Along with his music, Miles included a note asking if Frisell wanted to record with him. The guitarist couldn't make the time then, but he wrote Miles a postcard expressing admiration for his horn playing, which Miles eventually got framed.
. “It was like you were supposed to get a record contract at twenty, get your own band and go out there and do that. It got a little lost. "He has such an effect on everybody in the band," Frisell said of Miles in that 2014 interview."I've played with the same people, the same song when he's there and when he's not there, and there's an incredible power, like a rhythmic clarity power, in everything that he plays. It sort of just brings everything into focus. ... I'm talking about one of those things that gets almost beyond. You can't really analyze it. He puts a spell on things.
Miles’s father, who died in 2018, was a lifelong mentor to his son and instilled in him his love of jazz. Before Miles was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame as part of its Jazz Masters & Beyond class in 2017, he toldthat he remembered improvising for the first time while in the school jazz band at East High School, where he graduated in 1981.
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