Miles Davis Experience at the Mac Oct. 2
The sound of famed music man Miles Davis is remembered in “The Miles Davis Experience – 1949 to 1959,” presented at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, on the Mainstage of the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd. in Glen Ellyn.
Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition winner Ambrose Akinmusire leads this multimedia concert, recapturing the sounds, history and cultural context of innovator Miles Davis. The trumpeter and composer and his group perform a selection of music, including pieces from the monumental “Kind of Blue” and “Birth of the Cool.”
The Oct. 2 performance includes a free pre-performance MAC Chat by College of DuPage music Professor Tom Tallman at 6 p.m. in MAC, Room 139.
Tickets to “The Miles Davis Experience” are $38 for adults, $36 for seniors and $28 for College of DuPage students and youth.
For more information, call the MAC Ticket Office at (630) 942-4000, or visit: www.atthemac.org.