We Want Miles! at Jazzfest Budapest at Városháza Park

Summer 2026 will mark the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis’ birth, and the world will undoubtedly celebrate this monumental milestone. Marcus Miller’s We Want Miles! project promises to be an exciting celebratory tribute to one of the most important figures in not just jazz but in the overall history of music.

Marcus Miller has assembled an explosive group, including the original members of Miles Davis’ 1980s comeback band, featuring Marcus Miller on electric bass, Mike Stern on guitar, Bill Evans on saxophone and Mino Cinelu on percussion. The talented trumpeter Russell Gunn, who has toured with Marcus Miller for the past decade, will bring his unique interpretations of Davis’ music to the forefront. ...

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Summer 2026 will mark the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis’ birth, and the world will undoubtedly celebrate this monumental milestone. Marcus Miller’s We Want Miles! project promises to be an exciting celebratory tribute to one of the most important figures in not just jazz but in the overall history of music.

Marcus Miller has assembled an explosive group, including the original members of Miles Davis’ 1980s comeback band, featuring Marcus Miller on electric bass, Mike Stern on guitar, Bill Evans on saxophone and Mino Cinelu on percussion. The talented trumpeter Russell Gunn, who has toured with Marcus Miller for the past decade, will bring his unique interpretations of Davis’ music to the forefront.

The We Want Miles! project will feature selections from the iconic 1981 We Want Miles! live recording in Japan, along with classic compositions from Miles’ celebrated catalog spanning the 1950s and 60s, right up to his final era of Tutu in 1986 and Amandla in 1989, both of which Marcus Miller composed and produced. The group will play the music from all of the important eras of Miles’ career but will also take Miles into the future and explore some other things that he might have appreciated playing going forward.

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