Ashley Kahn & Morani Sanders present Miles Davis: The Path to Kind of Blue

($25-$35 tickets | 4pm Doors, 4:30pm Presentation & Discussion, 6pm Live Performance) Grammy Award winning author and jazz historian Ashley Kahn makes a special appearance in Tucson to discuss Miles Davis and the path to Kind of Blue.

Today, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is still the #1 best-selling jazz recording of all time—revered and studied, a fan-favorite and a doorway album into world of improvised music. Recorded in 1959 with an all-star sextet included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Cannonball Adderley, it’s considered Davis’s crowning achievement—if a diverse, far-reaching forty-year career could be compressed into one recording. It certainly represents a culmination of his first 15 years. This discussion—filled with music examples and revealing insights— is presented by Ashley Kahn, author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, and covers Davis’s earliest years, explaining the “why”s and the “how”s of the creative path that led him to record his masterpiece of modal jazz.

This will be followed by a performance of the album by a sextet of local jazz headliners, including Morani Sanders, Eric Nakanishi, Brice Winston, Peter Saxe, Scot Black and Arthur Vint.

Student tickets available at the door.