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The Miles DavisExperience: 1949–1959

A Collaboration with Blue Note Records

Featuring theAmbrose Akinmusire Quintet

LineupAmbrose Akinmusire — TrumpetWalter Smith III — Tenor Sax

Sam Harris — PianoHarish Raghavan — BassJustin Brown — Drums


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BiographiesAmbrose Akinmusire, TrumpetAmbrose Akinmusire’s career has beena slow and steady process. Born andraised in Oakland, California, he was amember of the Berkeley High SchoolJazz Ensemble when SaxophonistSteve Coleman stopped by the schoolto conduct a workshop. Colemanimmediately heard promise in theyoung trumpeter and eventually hired19-year old Akinmusiere to join hisband on an extensive European tour.

The experience proved life-changing.Coleman—considered by many to bethe spiritual godfather of the currentcreative jazz scene—challengedAkinmusire on and off the stage.“Ambrose, what’s your concept?”Akinmusire remembers Colemanasking him on a train ride throughGermany. “Concept? I’m 19, I don’tneed a concept. It’ll just come oneday,” shrugged Akinmusire, raising thesaxophonist’s ire. “He really laid in onme. I’ll never forget it,” he recalls.“You’ve got to start thinking about itnow,” Coleman told him.

Akinmusire took the advice to heartand returned to his studies at theManhattan School of Music determinedto discover his own voice. Afterreturning to the West Coast to pursuea master’s degree at the University ofSouthern California, Akinmusire wenton to attend the Thelonious MonkInstitute of Jazz in Los Angeles, anexperience that began to bring hisquest into clearer focus.

In 2007 Akinmusire won theprestigious Thelonious MonkInternational Jazz Competition and theCarmine Caruso International JazzTrumpet Solo Competition (two of themost prestigious jazz competitions inthe world) and released his debutrecording Prelude…To Cora. It was alsoduring this time that Bruce Lundvall,President of Blue Note Records,noticed him.

Akinmusire and his quintet beganrecording his Blue Note debut albumWhen the Heart Emerges Glistening inSeptember 2010. The album’s openingtrack “Confessions to My UnbornDaughter” immediately establishesseveral of the quintet’s hallmarksincluding their striking juxtaposition ofbombast and beauty, with searingsolos turning on a dime to reveal

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moments of touching tenderness,and the profound frontline interplaybetween Akinmusire and Smith.“He and I never have any musicalconversations,” says Akinmusire. “It’samazing, it feels like he’s part of mybrain and I’m part of his. I know exactlywhat he’s thinking, what note he’sgoing to end on, when he’s going toplay something, when he’s going tostop.” The way the two intuitively tradelines back-and-forth, finishing eachother’s musical sentences, is surely aresult of the 12 years that they’ve beenmaking music together.

Walter Smith III, Tenor SaxWalter Smith III began playing thesaxophone at the age of seven in hishometown of Houston, at Houston’sHigh School for the Performing andVisual Arts. In 1998, Smith received aClifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowshipfrom IAJE and NFAA; the NFAA YoungTalent Award; a full tuition scholarshipto attend Berklee College of Music; anda United States Presidential Scholar inthe Arts medal. Walter graduatedfrom Berklee in 2003 with a degree inMusic Education.

Walter has performed all over theworld including such storied venues asCarnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.Smith has shared the stage and/orrecorded with many notable musiciansincluding Terence Blanchard, RoyHaynes, Christian McBride, Eric Reed,Mulgrew Miller, Joe Sample, Bob Hurst,Myron Walden, Walter Beasley, LewisNash, Terri Lynne-Carrington, and a

host of others. To date, Walter hasappeared on over 75 recordingsworldwide.

Walter’s eponymously titled debutrecording as a leader was released in2006 on the Fresh Sound New Talentlabel and features many of thebrightest young jazz talents. Hissophomore release “Live in France”,was released in 2009 and receivedcritical acclaim. His most recent album,“III”, was released 2010 and was the #3best seller on itunes in the U.S. for itsfirst week. The recording featuresAmbrose Akinmusire, Jason Moran,Joe Sanders, and Eric Harland.

Over the past few years, besidesleading a quintet, Walter is/has been amember of several groups (recordingand touring) including the TerenceBlanchard Group, Eric Harland’sQuintet, Ambrose Akinmusire’sQuintet, Christian Scott’s Group, theSean Jones Sextet, Jason Moran’s BigBandwagon (In My Mind: Monk at TownHall), and the Christian McBrideSituation Band.

Sam Harris, Piano“He plays from a place of sincerity thatsets him apart from his counterparts.His willingness to straddle the fence ofjazz piano history allows him to createa fresh take on jazz ... I will be watchingand listening to his every move.”

—Jason Moran

Sam Harris’s life in music began at theage of two, when, thanks to incredible

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foresight, his mother put him in earlypiano lessons. Sam quickly excelled inhis classical training, and by the age often was competing regularly on thelocal and statewide levels. At Booker T.Washington Arts Magnet High Schoolin Dallas, he discovered jazz and wassoon consumed with the dual pursuitof classical and improvisatory music. In2004 he moved to New York to attendthe Manhattan School of Music onscholarship, where he studied privatelywith teachers like Garry Dial, JasonMoran, and John Riley. He has played inbands led by forward-thinkingmusicians such as AmbroseAkinmusire, Logan Richardson, and

Linda Oh, and is quickly gainingrecognition as an important new voiceon the music scene.

Harish Raghavan, BassHarish Raghavan was born May 19,1982. At age eight he began studyingWestern and Indian percussion andswitched over to the double bass atage 17. Soon after, he was accepted tostudy with John Clayton at theUniversity of Southern California. Whilein Los Angeles he also studied withRobert Hurst, among others, andrecorded and played with manylegendary West Coast musicians.

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In 2007, he made the move to NewYork where he has had the opportunityto record and play with some of themost forward-thinking musicians of hisgeneration: Ambrose Akinmusire, EricHarland, Aaron Parks, Taylor Eigsti,Vijay Iyer, Kurt Elling, Walter Smith III,Logan Richardson, Dayna Stephens,Gerald Clayton, along with manyothers. After only being in New Yorkfor a few years, Harish has alreadybegun to make a name for himselfamong the rising stars of hisgeneration.

Justin Brown, DrumsBorn and raised in Oakland, California,Justin Brown started playing drums inchurch when he was just two years old.At the age of 10, he went on to studyat UC Berkeley’s Young MusiciansSummer Program and continued hisstudies there for seven more years. Allthe while, Brown continued to play invarious groups and settings, includingthe prestigious Grammy High SchoolAll-Star Band.

In 2002, Brown was one of only fiveapplicants selected, amongsthundreds, to attend The Dave BrubeckInstitute on a full scholarship. In 2004,Brown graduated, then received a fullscholarship to Juilliard and made thebold move to New York City. Sincethen this skilled young drummer hasperformed, toured and recorded withthe likes of Kenny Garrett, ChristianMcBride, Gerald Clayton, Stefon Harris,Esperanza Spaulding, TerenceBlanchard, Josh Roseman, Gretchen

Parlato, Eldar, Yosvany Terry, GonazaloRubalcaba, Bilal, Ledisi, AmbroseAkinmusire, and Vijay Iyer.

Miles Davis. The name alonehas become synonymouswith jazz music and its place

in popular culture, notably the prolificyears of 1949-1959, starting with Birthof the Cool. To commemorate thesemomentous years in jazz and Davis’career, CAMI Music has joined forceswith Miles Davis Properties, LLC andBlue Note Records for an innovativemusic and historical production, “TheMiles Davis Experience: 1949-1959.”

Through the lens of jazz music and oneof its most iconic innovators, “TheMiles Davis Experience: 1949-1959”recaptures this critical period ofAmerican history through a historicaland cultural context. Led by BlueNote Records artist and trumpeterAmbrose Akinmusire, the immersiveperformance follows Miles’ musicaldevelopment in linear chronology,telling of the challenges and optimismin post-war America, the civil rightsstruggle, historical milestones and thecreative cauldron of new music thatMiles pioneered and nurtured.

“Miles Davis played a crucial andinevitably controversial role in everymajor development in jazz since themid-’40s, and no other jazz musicianhas had so profound an effect on rock.Miles Davis was the most widelyrecognized jazz musician of his era, an

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outspoken social critic and an arbiterof style—in attitude and fashion—aswell as music.” — The Rolling StoneEncyclopedia of Rock & Roll

From Birth of the Cool to 1959’senormously influential masterpieceKind of Blue, Miles secured hislegendary status in music history. Kindof Blue stands as the best-selling jazzalbum of all time with over four millioncopies sold. In December 2009, theU.S. House of Representativesrecognized Miles’ musical influence,passing a resolution honoring thealbum as a national treasure.

More than just a musical performance,the show features iconic era imagesbrought together by beat poet-stylenarrator and actor, Donald Lacy.Akinmusire is joined by the AmbroseAkinmusire Quintet, featuring WalterSmith III (tenor sax), Sam Harris(piano), Harish Raghavan (bass) andJustin Brown (drums.) The US tourwill run from September 28–November20, 2011. These special performanceswill reintroduce Miles to fans and givea new generation of music lovers amore complete understanding ofjazz and Miles’ influence on today’spopular music.

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