February 26, 2012 – 3:00 pm | Music
Jazz on the Move: Miles Davis and the Birth of the Cool
Auditorium ~ FREE
- BIrth of the Cool album cover
- Miles Davis photo by Tom Palumbo
- Nashville Jazz Workshop Birth of the Cool Band photo by Scott Hammaker
Jazz on the Move is produced by the Nashville Jazz Workshop in collaboration with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Each installment features a lecture and performance highlighting a major figure or period in jazz history. Presented by Nashville’s top jazz artist/educators, the series offers audiences world class music as well as an opportunity to learn more about jazz and the musicians who create and perform it.
Jazz on the Move celebrates Black History Month with a look at a major work of one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Miles Davis. The Birth of the Cool, recorded with a nonet in 1949 and 1950, was a daring excursion that expanded the boundaries of jazz. This was to be the first of several boundary-shattering works by Miles, marking major epochs in his artistic development. Join Denis Solee and an all-star ensemble of Nashville jazz musicians as they recreate this hip and ground-breaking music.
* The Nashville Jazz Workshop acknowledges the generous support of the Frist Foundation.