Miles '55 offers a deeper look at 1955, the year in which jazz icon Miles Davis formed his first great quintet (John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones) and established his influential sound.
In five albums stretching over four years, Smith and the Cosmic Echoes stretched the fusion aesthetic to embrace post-bop modal and spiritual jazz and funk.
The Epic is the story of Kamasi Washington and the Next Step and their mission: to remove jazz from the shelf of relics and make it new, unexpected, and dangerous again.