Review
- Jason Miles - Miles to Miles April
20, 2005 - If you want to be reminded of why Smooth Jazz is a religion to some
then let this album be your refresher course. Know anyone who thinks Smooth Jazz
has no balls? Throw this at them! "This music is real, it's now, and it's
dangerous" says Jason Miles who worked
with Miles Davis on his famous Tutu album,
"Miles to Miles" takes it one step further. "I thought about what
Miles would be digging on today, and tried to capture a bit of creative, renegade
spirit in the music." Jason Miles says
it never got better than when he worked with the master, "That to me was
the biggest moment of my musical life. How high can you reach well that was high?"
More Smooth
Jazz Nominees at the Grammys December
8, 2004 - Looks like the sun won't set any time soon on Norah
Jones. The singer was nominated for five Grammys yesterday including nods
for Pop Vocal Album and Female Pop Vocal for her second CD "Feels Like Home."
The late Ray Charles was another multiple
nominee with seven (his album had 10 nominations) and the biggest artist heard
on Smooth Jazz radio was Alicia Keys with
eight nominations.
Read more.
Jason
Miles
1 Nomination
- Best
Pop Instrumental Performance
- "Chasing Shadows" with Herb Alpert, Russ Freeman, James Genus and
Gene Lake from "Maximum Grooves: Coast To Coast" (Various
Artists) Jason
Miles Remembers His Three Biggest Moments October
27, 2004 - We asked super producer/keyboardist Jason
Miles if he ever had a moment where he really thought he'd made it? "Well
making it is a very bad way to put it" says Miles, who's worked with some
of the biggest names in music including Miles
Davis, David Sanborn and Luther
Vandross. He told us there were three times actually, "The first was
when I first worked with Miles Davis. That
to me was the biggest moment of my musical life. How high can you reach well that
was high." Jason Miles told Smooth Jazz Now the second biggest moment was
working on the soundtrack for the Bill Murray movie "Scrooge." "In
the session was Miles, Sanborn, Paul Shaffer, Larry
Carlton, Marcus and myself." Interestingly, during a break Jason Miles
overheard someone on the phone who put the moment in perspective, "This guy
on the phone was saying, 'Hey man, you really have to come down the heaviest dudes
are here Miles, Sanborn, Carlton, Paul Shaffer and Jason Miles.' When he put my
name in that place for that moment it really hit me." His third gratifying
moment came at the concert version of his Ivan Lins tribute album "A Love
Affair," Miles says, "We were at Carnegie Hall and everyone was there
from the record except Sting who was in
Europe at the time. Dave Koz replaced Grover
who had passed away of course. What happened was Ivan started playing solo and
I went out and stood on the drum rise and I looked out to the whole expanse of
Carnegie Hall. Every seat was filled and it was pretty amazing." Read
our new interview with Jason Miles.
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April
20, 2005 - If you want to be reminded of why Smooth Jazz is a religion to some
then let this album be your refresher course. Know anyone who thinks Smooth Jazz
has no balls? Throw this at them! "This music is real, it's now, and it's
dangerous" says 
December
8, 2004 - Looks like the sun won't set any time soon on 
October
27, 2004 - We asked super producer/keyboardist 
