jazz repertory comes to the fort

so on may 22nd, the regular sunday night jazz thang at the black dog is gonna be transformed into a special celebration of miles davis' 79th birthday. it's a great concept: the first set recreates miles' epochal '59 album kind of blue and the sextet with trane, cannonball, and bill evans/wynton kelly; the second set features material from the benchmark '66 alb miles smiles by the second "classic" quintet of hancock/carter/williams/shorter; and the third focuses on miles' late '60s/early '70s electric period (in a silent way/bitches brew/jack johnson). the lineup includes (but is not limited to) members of bertha coolidge, flipside, ghostcar, master cylinder (remember them?) and wednesday-night black dog regulars dave and daver. it's a show conceived in jazz heaven that will hopefully draw real big and lead to further like-themed evenings. (i'm voting for a monk tribute with johnny case.)