Miles, Coltrane paired again with OnQ Performing Arts

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Sultan Omar El-Amin and Quentin Talley as MIles Davis and John Coltrane in "Miles & Coltrane: Blue(.)" The production is April 13-16 at Booth Playhouse.

OnQ Performing Arts is bringing the musical biography of giants Miles Davis and John Coltrane back to the Charlotte stage.

The production of “Miles & Coltrane: Blue(.)” by Concrete Generation will be shown April 13-16 at Booth Playhouse, 130 N. Tryon St. The play, directed by OnQ Performing Arts founder and artistic director Quentin Talley, premiered in Charlotte in 2008 at the Duke Energy Theater and has been performed across the United States in addition to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

The show schedule is: April 13 at 7:30 p.m.; April 14 at 8 p.m.; April 15 at 2 and 8 p.m.; and April 16 at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $28-$58 and are available at blumenthalarts.org.

“Miles & Coltrane: Blue (.)” captures a rapidly changing 1950s America fueled in part by jazz as the soundtrack to social revolution. The production weaves the story of trumpeter Davis and saxophonist Coltrane as partners at the forefront of jazz by holding a mirror to their personal and professional relationship.   

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