Proms 2026 Miles Davis Centenary

Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Miles Davis transformed modern jazz with music that embraced the world around him – a new and exhilarating collage of modal scales, electronic and classical influences, expansive new structures and, of course, technical virtuosity. The Proms marks Davis’s centenary with a concert that combines the musician’s influences – works by Rodrigo and Gershwin – with his own hits. ‘Incandescent’ American jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire joins the BBC Concert Orchestra and Miho Hazama for a celebration of a jazz legend.

Programme to include new arrangements of excerpts from ‘Miles Ahead’, ‘Porgy and Bess’, ‘Sketches of Spain’ and ‘Quiet Nights’.

There will be one interval

Recorded for broadcast on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer

Ambrose Akinmusire © Michael Wilson