Celebrating Miles Davis Weekend: Steve Waterman Qnt. "An outstanding, enriching experience, easily the best of its kind I’ve heard." - Jazzwise

Few figures have shaped the course of modern music as much as Miles Dewey Davis III.  

There is hardly a sub-genre of jazz Miles didn’t radically reshape. Bop, cool, third stream, hard bop, free jazz (albeit a more restrained version), and fusion all have his fingerprints on them. Even more, his shadow casts to areas well outside of the critically demarcated lines of jazz. 

The trumpeter presaged the atmospheric approaches of bands such as Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, and Steely Dan. Experimentation with tape loops, synthesisers, and electronic textures laid the way for trip-hop, drum ‘n’ bass, jungle, ambient, and other electronic music. 

When Miles went electric, he helped shape the grittier psychedelic side of funk that Prince, Rick James, and P-Funk would take to the extreme. His rejection of the status quo and use of noise even shaped punkers like Henry Rollins and Johnny Rotten.

Trumpeter Steve Waterman has assembled an all-star quintet to reimagine some of Miles’ classics, such as Four, Boplicity, So What, Blue in Green, Time After Time, Freddie Freeloader, Tutu, and Milestones.

Steve Waterman (Trumpet), Alan Barnes (Tenor Saxophone), Nick Weldon (Piano), Marianne Windham (Double Bass), Dave Barry (Drums).