Monday, October 26 @ 7:00 pm
National Jazz Museum in Harlem - 58 W 129th Street, New York, NY 10027
Few musicians had a closer view of Miles Davis’s final creative chapter than Marcus Miller. As part of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Miles 100 series, bassist, composer, and producer Marcus Miller joins series curator Nabaté Isles for a special listening party exploring the music, stories, and creative process behind his years working with Miles.
Together, Miller and Isles will listen to selected recordings and discuss Miller’s experiences performing, composing, arranging, and producing for Miles during the 1980s. The conversation will explore Miles’s creative process, his constant search for new sounds, and the remarkable collaboration that produced Tutu, Siesta, and Amandla. Miller composed and produced most of Tutu, helping shape the distinctive combination of jazz, funk, electronic textures, and contemporary production that defined this period of Miles’s career.
More than a retrospective, the evening offers an opportunity to hear this music through the ears of one of the artists who helped create it and to consider how Miles’s commitment to reinvention continues to resonate a century after his birth.
Miles 100: One hundred years after his birth, Miles Davis remains one of the most compelling figures in American music and culture. Curated by trumpeter Nabaté Isles, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Miles 100 series brings together musicians, athletes, and cultural figures to explore Miles’s extraordinary legacy, restless creativity, and the people, ideas, and stories that shaped his life and work.
About Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller is an internationally acclaimed bassist, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose career spans more than four decades. His extensive recording credits include work with Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, David Sanborn, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, and many others. His collaboration with Miles began as a member of Davis’s early-1980s comeback band and developed into a major creative partnership, with Miller playing a central role in Tutu, Siesta, and Amandla.
As a bandleader, Miller has released numerous albums and earned Grammy recognition for his work, while his career has also encompassed film and television scoring, broadcasting, and musical direction. In 2019, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal presented him with its Miles Davis Award in recognition of his contributions to the evolution of jazz.
About Nabaté Isles
Grammy-winning trumpeter, composer, producer, and sports broadcaster Nabaté Isles serves as curator of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Miles 100 series. Through conversations with musicians, artists, writers, and cultural figures, Isles explores Miles Davis’s extraordinary legacy, restless creativity, and the people, ideas, and stories that shaped his life and work.
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Miles 100 series is made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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