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Ron Miles Programs
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RON MILES - GARY VERSACE - MATT WILSON TRIO (one-sheet pdf here)
Ron Miles- trumpet
Gary Versace- piano, accordion
Matt Wilson- drums
Drummer Matt Wilson has a reputation as the class clown of contemporary jazz. What that really means is that he knows how to put audiences and fellow musicians completely at ease. One of the most exuberant, versatile, and respected drummers working today, Wilson has played with just about anyone you could name in the past two generations. And while he leads two working bands of his own, he also has a knack for engineering imaginative and sometimes unexpected collaborations. He and trumpeter Ron Miles have teamed up in several different settings, most recently in an amazing duo at this year's Ottawa Jazz Festival. Miles, meanwhile, is known for his sensiive playing in a variety of contexts, most notably, perhaps, in collaborations with such guitar heroes as Bill Frisell and Charlie Hunter, clarinetist Don Byron, drummer Ginger Baker, and singer Madeleine Peyroux. When in-demand keyboardist Gary Versace—a veteran of the Claudia Quintet, the Refuge Trio, the John Abercombie Trio, and Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts— joins in, it's bound to be another revelatory encounter.
"[Wilson's] duo concert with trumpeter Ron Miles...was a triumph of imagination, humour and spontaneity–although that sounds like too high-falutin' a description of a show that was so disarmingly personal and personable."—Peter Hum, Ottawa Citizen |
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RON MILES TRIO featuring BILL FRISELL - BRIAN BLADE
Ron Miles- trumpet
Bill Frisell- guitar
Brian Blade- drums
Ron Miles has played an essential role in guitarist Bill Frisell’s expansive musical universe
for more than a decade, almost as long as the trumpeter has made ingenious use of Frisell’s
marvelously elastic sonic palette. The Denver-based Miles first collaborated with Frisell
on the guitarist’s exquisite self-named 1996 Nonesuch quartet CD, and he returned the favor
the following year on “Woman’s Day,” the trumpeter’s second Gramavision album focusing
on his tartly lyrical original compositions. The relationship reached a joyous epiphany on Miles’
2002 Sterling Circle album “Heaven,” a luminous duo session encompassing Bob Dylan and
Hank Williams, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. |
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