CartMAY 25-28 | MUSIC OF MILES DAVIS: A CELEBRATION
May 25, 2023
Miner Auditorium
This first performance is focused on Davis’ hard bop first quintet of the 1950s with John Coltrane, the iconic 1959 sextet session Kind of Blue, and the exploratory 1960s second quintet with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.
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Hugh and Ceseli Foster
It’s one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it’s another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.
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It’s one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it’s another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.
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Personnel
Donald Harrison alto saxophone
Javon Jackson tenor saxophone
Eddie Henderson trumpet
Patrice Rushen piano
Buster Williams bass
Lenny White drums
The Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s has long been praised as one of the most advanced small groups in jazz history.
The New York Times
Personnel
Donald Harrison alto saxophone
Javon Jackson tenor saxophone
Eddie Henderson trumpet
Patrice Rushen piano
Buster Williams bass
Lenny White drums
The Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s has long been praised as one of the most advanced small groups in jazz history.
The New York Times
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