Miles Davis has been hailed by critics and fans around the world as one of the greatest jazz innovators of our time. JAZZ ROOTS: CELEBRATING MILES presents the two musical sides of this legendary artist’s work. The first half of the concert celebrates the acoustic period, with music culled from Davis’s classic Columbia albums, “Milestones,” “Round About Midnight,” and leading up to what critics and fans alike call, the most important jazz record in modern history, “Kind of Blue.” Multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and band leader Wallace Roney is the foremost proponent of the Miles Davis legacy, and headlines the first section of this concert. In 1983, after years of playing with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, Roney met Miles Davis and became his protégé – in fact, Davis gave Roney his trumpet. Roney spent the next eight years studying, performing, and hanging with Davis. Joining Roney onstage is for this special tribute performance is acclaimed bassist Ron Carter. One of the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz history, Ron Carter is a multiple Grammy Award winner and an original member of the second great Miles Davis Quintet. Among his many honors, Carter was named Jazz Bassist of the Year by DownBeat Magazine and Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
The second half of this historic concert pays tribute to the electric side of Miles Davis with Tutu, the album released in 1986 in tribute to Bishop Desmond Tutu. Legendary musician, producer, and bass player Marcus Miller co-produced Tutu, wrote nearly all of the songs on the album, and performs on every track. Miller brings his highly anticipated show, “Tutu Revisited, The Music of Miles Davis,” to the Knight Concert Hall stage for an inside look into the making and artistry of one of the greatest pieces of music ever produced, as it was performed by one of the greatest jazz artists of our time. Joining Miller on the Tutu program is Grammy-nominated, young jazz lion, Christian Scott. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Scott plays a trumpet named Katrina, at age 27 is the progenitor of the fabled “whisper technique” of playing the trumpet, and is garnering worldwide critical acclaim for his fifth studio album.
February 25, 2011 at 8 p.m.
Knight Concert Hall
Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
Tickets: $25 to $130
For tickets visit www.arshtcenter.org or call the box office at (305) 949-6722