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Ron Miles - Circuit Rider '2014

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Circuit Rider
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Album name Circuit Rider
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Date 2014
GenreJazz
Play time 56:42 min
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 2820 Kbps / 82.2 kHz
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Size 1.06 GB
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Cornetist Ron Miles leads guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Brian Blade in
Circuit Rider, the group’s second album. A logical evolution from the
Trio’s debut album Quiver (2012), Circuit Rider epitomizes Miles’
signature lyricism, deceptively simple yet fiendishly difficult to play and
spiritually aware compositions. The scope of the album spans American folk
traditions and vibrant gospel hope infused with progressive jazz forms.
Confident, elegant, and never overstated, Miles provides just the right amount
of grace and rhythm as he quietly makes his mark as an exemplary cornetist,
composer, and storyteller. 

“I like to think that musicians are the messengers of today,”
explains Ron Miles. Known for writing songs that possess religious overtones,
Miles embarked on this new album with the Circuit Riders of old serving as his
inspiration. The 

Circuit Riders, traveling clergy who took the gospel to remote corners of
America’s frontier on horseback beginning 250 years ago, were forerunners
in their day. According to Miles, Circuit Rider is a
post-­‐‑modern nod to these leaders who lived for a cause
greater than themselves. “We, as musicians, are traveling Circuit Riders
preaching every day at any place available and are always on the move.” 

Comprising five original compositions on this eight-­‐‑track
disc, Circuit Rider marks the first time Miles recorded an album with the same
group twice. This time around, Miles could hear the band in the songwriting
process. “We discovered songs together,” says Miles. “Their
astounding capacity for playing impacted how I approached the music. When you
have musicians as perceptive and responsive as Bill Frisell and Brian Blade, the
music just takes off!” 

Sharing a fondness for striking melody, musical economy, and the importance of
individual timbre, these three genre-­‐‑defying musical masters
are highly respected leaders with expansive discographies and projects covering
a wide spectrum of contemporary music. Their collective playing reflects the
landscape that is implicit in Circuit Rider; all three giving a certain
folk-­‐‑like context to Ron’s original compositions.
Denver-­‐‑based Ron Miles and Bill Frisell (a partnership that
dates back to the mid-­‐‑90s) both exude the Old West, while
Brian Blade’s breezy sophistication and jagged rhythms salute his native
Louisiana. 

Like its predecessor Quiver, Circuit Rider showcases a selection of carefully
chosen cover songs. Synthesizing the past are rearrangements of Jimmy
Giuffre’s “Two Kinds of Blues,” as well as both “Jive
Five Floor Four,” and “Reincarnation Of A Lovebird” by the
trio’s hero Charles Mingus. Producer Hans Wendl and engineer Colin
Bricker ensure again that the recording quality do justice to the high level of
the musical performances. 

Ron Miles is one of the finest trumpeters in jazz today. I can’t come up
with a compelling reason why he should be anything other than a major name.
(JazzTimes) 

Miles plays brilliantly, singing the melodies with a tone bright and vocalized,
tinged with melancholy... (Down Beat) 

Ron Miles, cornet
Bill Frisell, guitar
Brian Blade, drums 

Tracklist:
9:07 | 01. Ron Miles - Comma (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian Blade)
6:56 | 02. Ron Miles - Jive Five (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian Blade)
5:00 | 03. Ron Miles - The Flesh Is Weak (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian Blade)
8:50 | 04. Ron Miles - Dancing Close and Slow (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian Blade)
4:56 | 05. Ron Miles - Circuit Rider (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian Blade)
7:07 | 06. Ron Miles - Reincarnation of a Lovebird (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian
Blade)
5:05 | 07. Ron Miles - Angelina (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian Blade)
9:41 | 08. Ron Miles - Two Kinds of Blues (feat. Bill Frisell & Brian Blade)

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