Monday, 6/22/2026, 3pm - Jazz In The Afternoon with Jesse 'Chuy' Varela

Don Dixon

Grammy Award winning producer, Nick Phillips joins, Jesse “Chuy:” Varela to discuss his curated boxset, “Miles ‘56”, on Craft Recordings. Released to celebrate Miles Davis’ centennial, Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings, brings together recordings from 1956, the year Davis recorded his most influential work on Prestige. With cuts from the four albums recorded with Rudy Van Gelder, “Cookin,” “Relaxin,” “Workin” and “Steamin”, this collection includes the first great quintet of Davis, Coltrane, Garland, Chambers, & Jones. Remastered from the original analog tapes by GRAMMY-winning engineer Paul Blakemore.