Miles Mosley
Date Signed: Feb. 1, 2017
Label: UMG/Verve Label Group
Type of Music: Soul/Jazz/Funk
Management: Barbara Sealy - SB Music Mgmt.
Booking: Jesse Rosoff, James Wright, Mary Petro - United Talent Agency (UTA)
Legal: KHPS, Peter Paterno, Brent Canter
Publicity: Carleen Donovan - Donovan Public Relations
Web: MilesMosley.com
A&R: Mike Viola, Jamie Krents
Getting out there and being seen and heard face-to-face by the right people at the right time––that’s one of the prime lessons of how Miles Mosley snared his contract with a respected record label. In December 2012, when the bassist-vocalist headed into the studio with his musical compadres in the powerhouse Los Angeles jazz fusion collective the West Coast Get Down, he and his bandmates—including drummer Tony Austin and saxophonist Kamasi Washington—had no idea he was taking part in what would become a global phenomenon.
Those sessions, which came in the wake of their longstanding residency at The Piano Bar in Hollywood drawing SRO crowds, resulted in The Epic. Billed as the debut studio album by Washington, it earned huge critical accolades and led to extensive touring in North America, Australia, Japan and Europe.
During what was billed as Kamasi’s shows, each member of WCGD played a solo number. Mosley’s performances of the spiritual soul funk/rock audience participating romp “Abra- ham” in Central Park and at the Monterey Jazz Festival caught the attention of three prominent execs with the Verve Label Group: Danny Bennett (President and CEO), Mike Viola (VP of A&R) and Jamie Krents (SVP, International Marketing and Label Development for Verve and Universal Music Group).
Each was already familiar with Mosely, but seeing him perform live sealed the deal. Mosley’s eclectic full-length label debut is Uprising.
