Miles Mosley

Born in Hollywood, California, in 1980 and given the name Miles after the legendary trumpeter, Miles Mosley entered a world saturated with jazz from his first breath. Early on he devoted himself to refining his command of the bass, voice, and compositional craft under seasoned teachers, forging an approach that merged the supple grooves of funk and rock with a level of technical command and expressive range no single idiom could contain. That breadth quickly opened doors to high-profile partnerships spanning Joni Mitchell and Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis. As a founding member of the West Coast Get Down collective, Mosley has sustained deep involvement in the group’s recordings, live appearances, and writing, while also leading his own projects. Among several solo releases are the 2005 album Sicacermony, 2006’s Taming the Proud, and 2007’s Bear. The decade that followed brought wider recognition when he appeared on fellow collective member Kamasi Washington’s widely praised 2015 release The Epic and contributed to Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly. Capitalizing on that momentum, Mosley prepared the solo album Uprising, which first surfaced in January 2017 via World Galaxy before Verve acquired it for broader multi-format release later the same year.