1. Ronald Glen Miles was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer.
16 Facts About Ron Miles
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Ron Miles recorded for the labels Prolific, Capri, and Gramavision.
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Ron Miles began learning the trumpet during this time at a summer music program.
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Ron Miles attended Denver East High School, where he played in its jazz combo together with Don Cheadle.
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Ron Miles won a classical competition at the International Brass Clinic hosted by Indiana University Bloomington.
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Ron Miles toured with the Mercer Ellington Orchestra during this time and went to Italy with Sophisticated Ladies in 1992.
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Ron Miles received national recognition playing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Ginger Baker, and the Bill Frisell Quartet.
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Ron Miles collaborated with Bill Frisell that year on the latter's album Quartet.
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Ron Miles recorded a total of twelve solo albums throughout his 35-year career.
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Ron Miles wrote the album as a tribute to his father, who died in 2018, and recorded it with Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, and Brian Blade.
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Ron Miles became one of Denver's most prominent jazz musicians, but only started receiving national acclaim towards the end of his career.
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Bret Saunders, a jazz columnist for The Denver Post and a friend of Ron Miles, surmised that he could have had a more renowned career had he not decided to remain in Denver.
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Ron Miles joined the Metropolitan State University of Denver during the late 1990s.
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Ron Miles taught there as a professor of music, and eventually became director of its Jazz Studies program.
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Ron Miles was married to Kari Miles and together they had two children, Justice and Honor.
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Ron Miles died on the evening of March 8,2022, at his home in Denver from complications of polycythemia vera, a rare form of blood cancer.