Yale Jazz Ensembles: Celebrating the Centennial of Miles Davis

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The Yale Jazz Ensembles Big Band, under the direction of Wayne Escoffery, celebrates the centennial of the birth of American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis. This special concert will feature newly commissioned big band arrangements by Michael Philip Mossman, drawn fromDavis’first twolandmark collaborations with composer and arranger Gil Evans—Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead.