Miles Davis' Doo-Bop & Beyond

Event Schedule
DJ Set by Easy Mo Bee
Panel Discussion: Hosted by Sway Calloway featuring Easy Mo Bee, Vince Wilburn, Donald Harrison, & DJ Flow
Afterparty: DJ sets w/ Easy & DJ Flow

Night #1 of our celebration of the Miles Davis centennial focuses on the trumpet genius’s final years and his landmark collaboration with hip-hop producer Easy Mo Bee that resulted in Davis’s final artistic statement, the 1992 Warner Brothers album Doo-Bop. For this exclusive event, Easy Mo Bee will kick things off with DJ set, followed by an in-depth panel discussion hosted by Sway Calloway (of Sway In The Morning) featuring Easy Mo Bee, Vince Wilburn of Miles Electric Band, NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison, and Bay Area-based DJ Flow. They will discuss the pioneering fusion of hip-hop, jazz and it's influence on Miles’s forward-thinking Doo-Bop recording.

The event will then close out with an afterparty session with DJ sets by Easy and DJ Flow.

About Miles Davis Doo-Bop
Over his nearly five-decade career, the constant in Miles Davis’s career was change. In a now-famous interview with the Washington Post in 1969, Miles Davis told journalist Hollie West, “I have to change. It’s like a curse.” He would maintain this creative imperative until the end of his life. 

Inspired by the sounds of hip-hop wafting into the open windows his Manhattan apartment during the summer of 1990, Davis connected with Easy Mo Bee — a production savant whose work with Big Daddy Kane, the Notorious B.I.G., Mos Def, and Tupac Shakur made him a star. 

Recording parts for the album the month before his death, Davis remained at the forefront of innovation with this final session  — a release that won the 1993 GRAMMY for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.