Jazz stars pay tribute to Miles Davis in "Miles Smiles"

Concert: Miles Smiles (Wallace Roney, Larry Coryell, Joey DeFrancesco, Rick Margitza, Omar Hakim and Daryll Jones)

Date: Wednesday, July 25

Time: 21 : 30h.

Stage: Almansa Park auditorium, San Javier

Admission: 12 Euros

Great jazz stars pay tribute to Miles Davis with "Miles Smiles"

The smile of the great Miles Davis will be planned over the Almansa Park auditorium in San Javier where tomorrow a group of contemporary jazz stars will perform tribute. They worked and learned with the great trumpeter whose sound they recall under the title Miles Smiles, who also gave name to the album that Davis recorded in 1967.

The supergroup formed around the memory of Miles Davis is composed of some of the best jazz musicians in the world as Wallace Roney (trumpet) he worked with the Jazz Messengers, and he maintained his relationship with Davis, with whom he recorded "Miles Davis and Quincy Jones at Mon treux ", from 1985 until the death of his great teacher, in 1991.

Joey DeFranceso, one of the most requested organists in the Hammond B3 organ, can remember how when he was only 17 years old he was recruited by Miles Davis with whom he toured Europe and recorded "Amandla". Also on that recording was the drummer Omar Hakim, veteran of "Weather Report" where he arrived after his apprenticeship stage with Miles Davis with whom he also recorded "Tutu". Hakim was also recruited by Sting for his first solo album "The Dream of the Blue Turtles".

Another of the great musicians that joins this project is Darryll Jones, bassist of The Rolling Stones since 1993 when he replaced Bill Wyman, and who also worked with Miles Davis and other artists such as Sting and Peter Gabriel. The supergroup is completed with Rick Margitza (tenor and soprano sax) who toured with Davis and participated in the recording albums as "Live Aroun"