Ron Miles: Custodian of Beauty - Part 1 [Mondo Jazz 191-2]

Ron Miles was a jazz hypnotist who would lure his listeners into his music world, taking them to another dimension and gently dropping them back on earth at the end of his concerts, or albums, leaving them wondering… ‘what did just happen…? And how did I get here’?  A few days back he passed away at 58, something that for most came as completely unexpected and very hard to make sense of. So this week we do the only thing that may help process this event, take a look back at decades of music that he wrote and played, either as leader or sideman but always as a custodian of beauty. The playlist also features Jason Moran, Bill Frisell, Brian Blade, Joshua Redman, Jenny Scheinman, Ben Goldberg, and Myra Melford. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/dj/80823/Leonardo-Granvassu (up to "Promised Land"). Photo credit: Luciano Rossetti (Phocus Agency)