Ron Miles

A highly regarded trumpeter, composer, and educator, Ron Miles was a progressive artist with a warm, rounded signature tone and a bent toward harmonically nuanced, genre-bending jazz. As a soloist, Miles preferred emotionally wrought, yet economical phrases rather than flurries of intensely played notes. Based in Colorado where he eventually headed the jazz studies program at Metropolitan State University of Denver, he garnered critical attention for his early albums, including 1996's My Cruel Heart and 1997's Woman's Day. The latter album featured guitarist Bill Frisell, a cl...