The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959 A Collaboration with Blue Note Records at George Mason University's Center for the Arts

This performance focuses on an extraordinary decade in American jazz history by paying tribute to the iconic innovator Miles Davis. A multimedia production featuring outstanding live music, photography, film clips and beat poet-style narration, this inspiring show tells the story of post-war America—the challenges and optimism, the struggle for civil rights, reaching historical milestones and the creative cauldron of new music pioneered and nurtured by this nonpareil of the jazz world. Hailed as one of the “Top 25 trumpeters of the future” by Downbeat Magazine, trumpeter Jason Palmer leads a quintet performing live versions of Davis’ music starting from his 1949 recordings through the Blue Note years and culminating with his masterpiece and commercial breakout, "Kind of Blue." Young and old alike will be moved and entertained by this unique celebration of the legacy of one of the greatest jazz composers of all time....

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This performance focuses on an extraordinary decade in American jazz history by paying tribute to the iconic innovator Miles Davis. A multimedia production featuring outstanding live music, photography, film clips and beat poet-style narration, this inspiring show tells the story of post-war America—the challenges and optimism, the struggle for civil rights, reaching historical milestones and the creative cauldron of new music pioneered and nurtured by this nonpareil of the jazz world. Hailed as one of the “Top 25 trumpeters of the future” by Downbeat Magazine, trumpeter Jason Palmer leads a quintet performing live versions of Davis’ music starting from his 1949 recordings through the Blue Note years and culminating with his masterpiece and commercial breakout, "Kind of Blue." Young and old alike will be moved and entertained by this unique celebration of the legacy of one of the greatest jazz composers of all time.

Tickets for THE MILES DAVIS EXPERIENCE are $22, $36, $44. Family Friendly! Youth through grade 12, half price when accompanied by an adult. Charge by phone at 888-945-2468, visit cfa.gmu.edu or visit the Center for the Arts box office, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Center for the Arts complex is located on the Fairfax campus of George Mason University at the intersection of Braddock Road and Route 123. Paid parking is located in the deck adjacent to the mainstage Concert Hall and FREE parking is located in university lot K. Visit cfa.gmu.edu.

SINGLE TICKETS AVAILABLE SEPT. 1, 2011. SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE NOW.

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