Jay Phelps takes Miles’ Kind of Blue and ‘58 Miles on tour

London-based Canadian-born trumpeter Jay Phelps has curated a new show which brings together the best of Miles Davis’s repertoire from 1958 and 1959. He’ll be leading the band with his own formidable, virtuosic trumpet playing alongside a hugely talented line-up of alto saxophonist Donovan Hafner, tenor saxophonist Maddy Coombs, pianist Rick Simpson, bassist James Owston and drummer Jim Bashford.

Prior to the release of Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time (to date selling nearly 5million copies worldwide), Miles was busy in the studio, working with the same line-up of musicians: Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. In 1958, the year before Kind of Blue, the album called ’58 Miles was released and set the stage for the birth of world’s greatest jazz album of all time the following year.

With five sold out shows at the Jazz Cafe already under their belt and a host of dates around the UK, the two sets presented by Phelps features the music from ’58 Miles and Kind of Blue. To bring this to life, Jay has picked a line-up of some of the UK’s most talented young players – both Hafner and Coombs are garnering great praise as rising names on the UK scene – the band close out the year with a handful of shows and then return in the spring of 2025.

Dates are: Lighthouse, Poole (18 October), Hootananny, Brixton (5 November), Stables, Milton Keynes (19 November),  Soul Mama, London (14 December), Bristol Jazz Festival (12 April 2025) and National Centre for Early Music, York (24 April 2025).

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