Museum Curators
Miles Davis: The Milieu
Presented by the Miles Davis Arts Festival
2021 marks three 20-year anniversaries of festivals and exhibitions devoted to the life, music and art of Miles Davis: The East St. Louis Miles Davis Arts Festival; the Drawings of Miles exhibition at the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum; and MILES: A Miles Davis Restrospective exhibition at the Missouri History Museum. Also, Paris is joining us for the 10th anniversary of We Want Miles exhibit.
This is also Miles Davis’ 95th birthday. This historic roundtable panel discussion looks back at how these happenings explored the complex dimensions of Davis’ life through the prisms of his personal development, artistry, and cultural legacy.
Moderator Magdalene Linck takes us from Miles Davis’ roots in East St. Louis, to his reign as the Arch (Bebop) bishop of Jazz, to the Miles Davis futurism of today with panelists Ben Cawthra, curator of MILES: A Miles Davis Retrospective; Becki Hartke, designer and project manager of MILES; Davis’ nephew, Vince Wilburn, Jr; and Vincent Bessières, curator at the Musée de la Musique/Cite de la Musique, which presented We Want Miles in 2010.
Recap & Takeaways
Miles Davis’ style is characterized by GQ Magazine as “one of the best dressed men of the twentieth century. Miles: The Milieu was prerecorded and hosted by Missouri History Museum for the 20th Anniversary of Miles Davis Festival; and Davis’ 95 birthday. Make sure you complete the trilogy of the 20th anniversary podcasts of The Man, The Music, The Milieu. Missouri History Museum’s moderator Magdalene Linck takes us from Miles Davis’ roots in East St. Louis, to his reign as the Arch (Bebop) bishop of Jazz, to the Miles Davis futurism of today with panelists Dr. Ben Cawthra, curator of MILES: A Miles Davis Retrospective; Becki Hartke, designer and project manager of MILES; Davis’ nephew, Vince Wilburn, Jr; and Vincent Bessières, curator at the Musée de la Musique/Cite de la Musique, which presented We Want Miles in 2010.
Notes
Check out the MilesVillians feature. The 2021 Miles Davis Panel of “Milesvillians” features Quincy Troupe, poet, professor, and Miles Davis co-auto-biographer and documentarian; Dr. Eugene B. Redmond, professor, author and Poet Laureate of East St. Louis; Reginald Petty, Historical Society; Lauren Parks, President & Co-Founder of the House of Miles; Dr. Michael Datcher, poet, bestselling author, professor; and Ronald Carter professor, bandleader, music historian. Darlene Roy, poet, author and President of the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club is the moderator.
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