MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble: Milestones - The Influence of Miles Davis

March 01, 2025 | 08:00 pm

Thomas Tull Concert Hall | Free and Open to the Public
March 01, 2025 | 08:00 pm

Saturday, March 1, 2025
Thomas Tull Concert Hall
Edward and Joyce Linde Music Buiding

Milestones — The influences of Miles Davis
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Evan Ziporyn, clarinet & EWI

On the cusp of the Miles Davis centennial in 2026, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble explores the vast influences of Miles Davis’ work as a trumpeter, composer, and bandleader that redefined jazz again and again. Music from Birth of the Cool through Tutu will be featured along with new music inspired by Davis’ groundbreaking legacy. This concert is a collaboration with Prof. Evan Ziporyn’s “Music of Miles Davis” 21M.128 MIT course offered this spring.

This project is presented as part of Artfinity, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.

Seating Policy

Your registration through Eventbrite guarantees you a seat until 15 minutes before the event start time. 15 minutes before the concert start time, we will release open seats to the standby list. If you were not able to register through Eventbrite, you may join the physical standby line in the Linde Music Building Lobby up to one hour before the concert start time.

Saturday, March 1, 2025
Thomas Tull Concert Hall
Edward and Joyce Linde Music Buiding

 

Milestones — The influences of Miles Davis
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Evan Ziporyn, clarinet & EWI

 

On the cusp of the Miles Davis centennial in 2026, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble explores the vast influences of Miles Davis’ work as a trumpeter, composer, and bandleader that redefined jazz again and again. Music from Birth of the Cool through Tutu will be featured along with new music inspired by Davis’ groundbreaking legacy. This concert is a collaboration with Prof. Evan Ziporyn’s “Music of Miles Davis” 21M.128 MIT course offered this spring. 

 

This project is presented as part of Artfinity, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.

 

 

Seating Policy

Your registration through Eventbrite guarantees you a seat until 15 minutes before the event start time. 15 minutes before the concert start time, we will release open seats to the standby list. If you were not able to register through Eventbrite, you may join the physical standby line in the Linde Music Building Lobby up to one hour before the concert start time.

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