JAZZ

摘要

Denver-based trumpeter and composer Ron Miles holds a senior teaching position but has also recorded many albums, including one with Ginger Baker and half-a-dozen with guitarist Bill Frisell. Most recently, Frisell appeared on Miles's three albums for the German label Yellowbird. For the last of these, I Am Man, pianist Jason Moran, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Brian Blade completed the quintet that also appears here on Miles's Blue Note debut. It's music that sounds fractured at first, but with an almost supernatural rapport between Miles and Frisell. They play the unexpected and yet it all fits, just as Miles's pieces are intricate and yet direct. SH