2018 – Miles Davis Award, Montreal Jazz Festival

Photo by ©Jim McGuire.

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones were the 25th recipient of the Miles Davis Award. The award was created in 1994 for Festival International de Jazz de Montréal’s 15th anniversary to honor a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician’s influence in regenerating the jazz idiom. The bronze statuette was created from a self-portrait by Miles, sketched for the Festival poster in 1988.

Learn more about the Montreal Jazz Fest’s Miles Davis Award and its past recipients!