Ron Miles left the planet all too soon, but the Denver cornetist and trumpeter has left a lasting mark, both in terms of the music he made and in the people whose lives he touched. This list, a guide ...

Ron Miles' trumpet has such an appealing tone that I'd eagerly listen to him play the songs of Johnny Cash, Lee Morgan, or Earth, Wind and Fire. His directions in music, like those of his close friend ...

A small-statured man in a fine suit, hunched over and silhouetted against a smoky backdrop — trumpet to his mouth about to play a softly muted note that no one expected but perfectly fits the moment.

Legendary Denver jazz cornetist, composer and educator Ron Miles died at the age of 58 on March 8. Miles’s manager and producer, Hans Wendl, said the cause of death was complications from polycythemia ...

TAMPA, FL — On Sunday, September 28th, Colors of Jazz on WMNF 88.5 FM will pay tribute to one of the most iconic figures in American music history: Miles Davis. Marking the 34th anniversary of his ...

American Jazz musician Jack DeJohnette plays drums as he performs onstage, with the DeJohnette-Coltrane-Garrison Trio, during a Blue Note Jazz Festival concert at Central Park SummerStage, New York, ...

Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davis’ electric period band, died on Sunday at the age of 83. Joan Clancy, DeJohnette’s assistant, confirmed the musician’s death to ...

Ron Miles — the legendary Denver-based jazz musician, educator and prolific recording and stage artist — has died at 58. His death was confirmed by his label, New York-based Blue Note Records.

Ron Miles, a cornetist, composer, and bandleader who stood quietly within the first rank of jazz artists in this century, died on Tuesday at his home in Denver. He was 58. The cause was complications ...

Don Cheadle tells me he wanted to make a movie that felt like Miles Davis, and indeed, there’s a brief five-second moment in his new film, Miles Ahead, that’s the perfect combination of the man’s ...