{"title":"Miles Mosley","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiles Mosley was named after Miles Davis, grew up in Hollywood, California, and studied upright bass with John Clayton, Ray Brown and Al McKibbon before committing to a professional music career in the early 2000s. The decade that followed was spent building a session and touring résumé that ran from Lauryn Hill and Mos Def through Jeff Beck, Joni Mitchell and Jonathan Davis of Korn, and on to scoring video games, film and television alongside his live work. None of it pointed obviously toward the West Coast Get Down. But the WCGD was the project where everything crystallised: a Los Angeles collective built around Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Ronald Bruner Jr., Cameron Graves, Ryan Porter and Terrace Martin that drew from jazz, soul, funk and hip-hop without dividing the influences into separate compartments. Mosley and Thundercat gave the collective its bass voice, and when Kendrick Lamar's team needed musicians for \"To Pimp a Butterfly,\" they called the collective: Mosley played on three tracks. His debut solo album \"Uprising\" (Verve, 2017), featuring the West Coast Get Down, drew on 1970s soul and funk as much as jazz, built around Mosley's upright bass played with a bow, effects pedals and his own voice, in a style that several critics reached for Jimi Hendrix analogies to describe before settling for calling it something new. \"Abraham,\" the lead single, was named one of NPR's Top 100 songs of 2016. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart. He remains active as a leader, composer, session musician and producer.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"miles-mosley-uprising-verve-records-vinyl-lp","title":"Miles Mosley - Uprising (Verve Records Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiles Mosley - \u003cem\u003eUprising\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2017 Verve Records (B0026700-01)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Mosley was named after Miles Davis, grew up in Hollywood, studied bass at the Colburn School and UCLA, and trained under three of the instrument's most respected players: John Clayton, Ray Brown and Al McKibbon. By the time the West Coast Get Down locked themselves in a Los Angeles studio for a 30-day recording marathon in 2012, Mosley was the collective's bassist and the anchor of every session. That marathon produced over 170 tracks. Kamasi Washington's \u003cem\u003eThe Epic\u003c\/em\u003e came out of it in 2015. Cameron Graves's \u003cem\u003ePlanetary Prince\u003c\/em\u003e, Ryan Porter's \u003cem\u003eThe Optimist\u003c\/em\u003e and Brandon Coleman's \u003cem\u003eResistance\u003c\/em\u003e followed. Mosley's \u003cem\u003eUprising\u003c\/em\u003e completed the set, released on Verve Records in 2017 after an initial independent pressing on World Galaxy Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat distinguishes Mosley from the rest of the Get Down's solo output is the upright bass itself. He plays a 250-year-old instrument he calls \"Big Mama\" and runs it through effects pedals and distortion, treating it the way a rock guitarist treats an electric guitar while keeping the physical discipline of a classical player. \"Young Lion\" opens the album with the bass distorted and pushed forward in the mix. \"Abraham,\" the breakout single, brings Washington's saxophone over a driving groove. \"L.A. Won't Bring You Down\" strips back to something closer to soul. The album moves between these modes constantly, with the full West Coast Get Down lineup, the same personnel who played on \u003cem\u003eThe Epic\u003c\/em\u003e, working as the engine underneath. Mastered at Capitol Studios. This is the 2017 Verve Records pressing (B0026700-01).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verve Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44168297513019,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/61kmOHVg7yL._UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1789085732"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/miles-mosley.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}