Ron Miles is a songwriter and cornet player based in Denver, Colorado. He was born in
Indianapolis in 1963 and moved to Colorado with his family in 1974. He has recorded as a leader
for Prolific, Capri, Gramavision, Sterling Circle, Enja/yellowbird, and is now a Blue Note Records
Artist. One of the finest improvisers and composers of his generation, he is revered by his fellow
musicians and has been heralded by critics around the world. In addition to leading his own
bands, Ron Miles has performed in the ensembles of Bill Frisell, Mercer Ellington, Don Byron,
Ginger Baker, Myra Melford, Joe Henry, Madeleine Peyroux, Jason Moran, Matt Wilson, The Bad
Plus, Harriet Tubman, Ben Goldberg, and Joshua Redman. Also a gifted and experienced
educator, Miles has been a music professor at the Denver Metropolitan State University since
1998. Following his trio releases with Bill Frisell and Brian Blade, Quiver (2012) and Circuit Rider
(2014), his recent quintet recordings, I AM A MAN (2017) and his Blue Note debut RAINBOW
SIGN (2020), feature again Frisell and Blade, along with pianist Jason Moran and bassist
Thomas Morgan.
Ron Miles [Collaboration w/ Hans Wendl Produktion]
“On his remarkable new album, Ron Miles nestles his light and buoyant sound inside compositions that
bespeak an aching memory and a righteous ambition... Leading a powerful quintet, Mr. Miles — an
underappreciated talent, as both cornetist and composer — uses these seven tunes to meditate on
experiences of disappointment, discrimination and transcendence. He and the band sound loose and warm
and free, as if unburdened by the reckoning.”
– NYTimes
“Ron Miles is just a beautiful musician; he's someone with this tone that's like liquid gold. On this album, he
applies that gorgeous sensibility to a sort of reflection on civil rights, identity, on justice. There were so many
ambitious and envelope-pushing albums made by jazz musicians in 2017. This is a subtler accomplishment
but what it does is it really establishes this kind of soulful beauty. And I found myself in a year of turbulence
and conflict reaching for it again and again. You know, it was replenishing. It was salutary. It was something
that made me feel good. You know, it's just a beautiful statement.”
– Nate Chinen - WBGO
Walter Smith III
August 5, 2019
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport, RI, USA
Newport, RI, USA
August 25, 2019
Da Camera
Houston, TX, USA
Houston, TX, USA
Steve Lehman Trio // "The People I Love" US Tour
September 19, 2019
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
September 20, 2019
SFJAZZ Center
San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
September 21, 2019
Constellation
Chicago, IL, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
September 22, 2019
Bop Stop
Cleveland, OH, USA
Cleveland, OH, USA
September 24, 2019 – September 25, 2019
Jazz Standard
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
September 26, 2019
Regatta Bar
Boston, MA, USA
Boston, MA, USA
The Jazz Gallery All-Stars
September 1, 2020 – October 18, 2020
AVAIL Worldwide
Tigran Hamasyan
April 30, 2020
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI, USA
Appleton, WI, USA
Theo Croker 'Star People Nation'
September 14, 2019
Lodge Room
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
September 16, 2019
Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield, MA, USA
Springfield, MA, USA
September 20, 2019 – September 21, 2019
Blue LLama
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
September 23, 2019
Dizzy's Club (Big Brother Big Band)
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
October 22, 2019
CBE
Cologne, Germany
Cologne, Germany
October 27, 2019
Grillo Theater
Essen, Germany
Essen, Germany
November 1, 2019
The Loft, UCSD
San Diego, CA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA
Gerald Clayton Quartet US Tour
September 23, 2019 – September 24, 2019
Lied Center (Solo)
Lawrence, KS, USA
Lawrence, KS, USA
September 27, 2019
Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA, USA
Monterey, CA, USA
September 28, 2019 – September 29, 2019
Moss Theatre
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
October 1, 2019
Musical Instrument Museum
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phoenix, AZ, USA
October 3, 2019
The Outpost
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Albuquerque, NM, USA
October 4, 2019
Santa Fe Music Collective
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Santa Fe, NM, USA
October 6, 2019
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
October 7, 2019
University of Nevada
Reno, NV, USA
Reno, NV, USA
October 8, 2019
The Triple Door
Seattle, WA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
October 10, 2019 – October 13, 2019
Jazz Standard
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
October 16, 2019
Blues Alley
Washington, DC, USA
Washington, DC, USA
October 19, 2019
The Factory at Franklin
Franklin, TN, USA
Franklin, TN, USA
November 20, 2019
Herb Alpert Music Center (Solo)
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Buika
August 1, 2019
Patio Theater
Chicago, IL, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
August 3, 2019
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport, RI, USA
Newport, RI, USA
JD Allen
January 25, 2020
Jefferson Center
Roanoke , VA, USA
Roanoke , VA, USA
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
September 1, 2019
Detroit Jazz Festival
Detroit, MI, USA
Detroit, MI, USA
December 13, 2019 – December 14, 2019
JALC with René Marie
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
Marcus Lewis Big Band
September 3, 2019
Des Moines Jazz Festival
Des Moines, IA, USA
Des Moines, IA, USA
Camila Meza & The Nectar Orchestra
August 4, 2019
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport, RI, USA
Newport, RI, USA
September 14, 2019
Lake George Jazz Festival
Lake George, NY, USA
Lake George, NY, USA
September 28, 2019
Tempe Arts Center
Tempe, AZ, USA
Tempe, AZ, USA
October 12, 2019
Mondriaan Jazz Festival
The Hague, Netherlands
The Hague, Netherlands
November 8, 2019
SFJAZZ
San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
November 11, 2019
Arcata Playhouse
Arcata, CA, USA
Arcata, CA, USA
November 15, 2019 – November 16, 2019
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Marcus Strickland 'Twi-Life'
August 4, 2019
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport, RI, USA
Newport, RI, USA
Joel Ross 'Good Vibes' 'Kingmaker' Release Tour
August 3, 2019
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport, RI, USA
Newport, RI, USA
August 30, 2019
Chicago Jazz Festival
Chicago, IL, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
September 13, 2019
White Plains Jazz Festival
White Plains, NY, USA
White Plains, NY, USA
October 17, 2019
Kummbwa Jazz Center
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
October 18, 2019
Vashon Center for the Arts
Vashon, WA, USA
Vashon, WA, USA
October 19, 2019
Earshot Jazz Festival
Seattle, WA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
October 20, 2019
Holocene
Portland, OR, USA
Portland, OR, USA
October 21, 2019
Brubeck Institute
Stockton, CA, USA
Stockton, CA, USA
October 25, 2019
BRIC Jazz Festival
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
November 21, 2019
Annenberg Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
December 29, 2019 – January 1, 2020
Umbria Winter Jazz Festival
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Sullivan Fortner Trio
July 20, 2019 – July 21, 2019
Cola Jazz Camp
Columbia, SC, USA
Columbia, SC, USA
July 28, 2019
Woods Hole Jazz (Solo Piano)
Falmouth, MA, USA
Falmouth, MA, USA
September 19, 2019
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
September 22, 2019 – September 23, 2019
Boise Jazz Society
Boise , ID, USA
Boise , ID, USA
October 1, 2019
Exuberance
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
October 3, 2019 – October 6, 2019
Jazz Standard
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
October 26, 2019
Clermont-Ferrand
Clarmont-Ferrand, France
Clarmont-Ferrand, France
November 18, 2019 – November 19, 2019
Paris Philharmonie
Paris, France
Paris, France
December 29, 2019 – January 1, 2020
Umbria Winter Residency
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy