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Laughing Barrel

Label: Sterling Circle
Released: 2003
Track listing: Parade; New Breed Leader; Psychedelic Black Man; Still Small Voice; Jesus Loves Me; Sunday Best; Fairy Court.

Album

Laughing Barrel

Label: Sterling Circle
Released: 2003
Track listing: Parade; New Breed Leader; Psychedelic Black Man; Still Small Voice; Jesus Loves Me; Sunday Best; Fairy Court. (Total Time 60:52).

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The Ron Miles Quartet: Laughing Barrel

Read "Laughing Barrel" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Trumpeter Ron Miles is a bit of jazz anomaly, in that he has taken to shunning the urban genres of jazz. His recent releases are all about wide-open spaces and Americana. Nowhere is this better heard than on his Sterling Circle debut, Heaven (Sterling Circle SCS 151, 2002). On this record from last year, Miles dueted ...

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The Ron Miles Quartet: Laughing Barrel

Read "Laughing Barrel" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The idea for Laughing Barrel, the title of trumpeter Ron Miles' latest CD, comes from the writings of Ralph Ellison, the great African-American author. According to Ellison, an enslaved man, when he had the urge to laugh (strangely forbidden fruit for these poor souls), would put his head in a barrel to muffle the sounds of ...

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Ron Miles Quartet: Laughing Barrel

Read "Laughing Barrel" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The concept of jazz has seemingly always been an urban phenomenon. From Louis Armstrong’s move to Chicago to the post-war Charlie Parker revolution--and more recently, Wynton Marsalis’ uptown vs. downtown music debate--jazz concepts and jazz sounds have traditionally gravitated toward cities. But inside jazz itself, traditions are continuously rewritten. As the music has ...


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