The Jazz Messenger celebrates Miles Davis

By WTJU

Date: 06/19/2026

Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

This Friday on The Jazz Messenger show, Brian Keena welcomes guest host Charlie Curtis back to the studio for the beginning of a series of programs highlighting the music of trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis.

This Friday’s show will feature his earliest 1946 recordings with Charlie Parker’s Reboppers, his 1949-1950 recording project with west coast musicians known as Birth of the Cool, as well as his hard bop sessions with Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver in the early 1950s. 

Tune it in on 91.1 FM, stream via wtju.net, or listen via WTJU’s mobile app.

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