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Randy Hall (born 1960, Chicago) is a guitarist, vocalist, composer and producer whose career bridges jazz, funk and R&B. He began on piano before switching to guitar at 13, studying with guitarist Peter Budd and later attending Berklee College of Music. Back in Chicago, Hall became part of the influential circle of musicians around drummer Vince Wilburn Jr., Miles Davis' nephew. Hall's group AL7 included Wilburn, keyboardist Robert Irving III and bassist Felton Crews.

Hall's connection with Miles Davis became particularly important in the early 1980s. He helped arrange and co-wrote material for Davis' The Man with the Horn (Sony, 1981), including its title track, on which Hall sang lead and played guitar, synthesizer and celeste. Davis' official site credits Hall as an arranger, composer, guitarist, synthesizer player and vocalist during 1980–81.

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Without a Net, and with Love, Uncle Miles

by Emily Steinhilber
September 29, 2026

When I called Vince Wilburn Jr. to talk about Miles Davis at 100 (read our own tribute), he answered from the Chicago house where he grew up--the same house where Davis used to telephone his mother and ask her to lower the receiver toward the basement so he could listen to his teenage nephew rehearse. More ...