Flotation Device salutes Miles Davis for his 100th birthday with several of his most unusual and forward-looking (but not always most popular) recordings. We marvel at the range of his half-century career that saw numerous reinventions, evolutions, surprises and derailments, and an unsurpassed impact on the history of jazz, fusion and improvised music from the late 1940s onward. We also sample new albums by Thomas Adès, Kris Davis, Angelika Niescier, Simon Hanes and Zhang Meng (the latter bringing the Chinese sheng into the 21st century). Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell from 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.
