Tag: jazz

Justice Will Sellers: 100 years of Miles Davis

A hundred years after his birth, Davis remains not just a towering figure in jazz, but a symbol of creative evolution itself. Miles Davis and jazz are synonymous. 

Excelsior Band to celebrate 140 years as Alabama’s jazz band

They started playing in Mobile in 1883. They marched and played in the very first Mardi Gras parade. The Excelsior Band will perform a free concert marking their 140th year as Alabama’s jazz band.