Career
González" primary musical instrument is the trumpet (including B♭, C, and pocket trumpets), though he has also played drums, flute, synthesizer, and baritone saxophone. Allmusic describes González as " talented trumpeter who has recorded a consistently rewarding string of lesser-known dates," whose "playing falls between advanced hard bop and free jazz." As of December 2006, González has released at least 28 albums under his own name. seems the heir of Don Cherry." González has also been instrumental in double bassist Henry Grimes" return to performing and recording. Grimes" November 2003 appearance on González" Nile River Suite was the bassist"s first official recording in more than thirty-five years.
During the late 1970s, González started the Dallas Association for Avant-Garde and Neo Impressionistic Music, or daagnim, at the suggestion of Anthony Braxton and Art Lande.
The daagnim organization, which functioned both as a group of musicians and as a record label, was based on and named after the AACM. In 1978, González began working for Dallas radio station KERA-FM, where he hosted a music program, Miles Out. He worked with KERA for 21 years, but left after the station had largely shifted from music programming to a news and talk format.
Foreign several years during the 1990s, González retired from jazz performance and recording. In 2010, the trio recorded with Ariel Pink, appearing on the song "Hot Body Rub" on the album Before Today, and on a vinyl European Parliament, Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz.
