MILES DONAHUE
Genres: Post Bop, Vocal Jazz, Hard Bop, Classic Fusion • United States

New Englander Miles Donahue is a veteran horn player who knows his way around the trumpet as well as the tenor and soprano saxophone. The hard bop/post-bop musician has also played the piano, although he seems to prefer wind instruments. On both trumpet and sax, Donahue projects a quiet strength; he swings, but often in an introspective, reflective, lyrical fashion. For a long time, the Boston resident put his jazz career on hold due to family obligations, but since the late ‘80s, he has been making up for lost time by playing jazz almost constantly. Donahue was born on August 19, 1944 in Watertown, MA, where he began studying the trumpet at the age of ten. One of the people who encouraged Donahue's interest in the trumpet was his father, Babe Donahue, a local trumpeter/arranger with a strong Roy Eldridge influence. After reaching adulthood in the ‘60s and enrolling in read more...