Get Up With It at Solar Myth

With its roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, the collective ensemble Get Up With It has been exploring the electric music of Miles Davis since the late 90s. Best known as the drummer for the Grammy-winning, Philly-born rock band The War on Drugs, Charlie Hall is also a professed Miles Davis fanatic who formed Get Up With It to pay homage to the iconic trumpeter’s groundbreaking electric music. Now in its third decade, the adventurous ensemble will focus on Miles’ prolific output from 1974 during this two-night residency: one evening will find the band exploring their namesake album, culled from the sessions that also yielded Jack Johnson and On the Corner, while the second will delve into Big Fun, which further evolved Davis’ Bitches Brew innovations with the additions of Indian instruments and sounds....

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With its roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, the collective ensemble Get Up With It has been exploring the electric music of Miles Davis since the late 90s. Best known as the drummer for the Grammy-winning, Philly-born rock band The War on Drugs, Charlie Hall is also a professed Miles Davis fanatic who formed Get Up With It to pay homage to the iconic trumpeter’s groundbreaking electric music. Now in its third decade, the adventurous ensemble will focus on Miles’ prolific output from 1974 during this two-night residency: one evening will find the band exploring their namesake album, culled from the sessions that also yielded Jack Johnson and On the Corner, while the second will delve into Big Fun, which further evolved Davis’ Bitches Brew innovations with the additions of Indian instruments and sounds.

A note from Charlie Hall: It was over 25 years ago, in San Francisco, that some pals and I started exploring this 1969-75 era of the electric music of Miles Davis. 50 years after those groundbreaking records were released—those collaborators and I, with a few other new pals and amazing musicians, have [re]assembled a ten-piece band to perform this music. To say it is an honor to share the stage with these performers would be the grossest of understatements.

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