Listening session with Ashley Kahn

To mark the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis’s birth and the 45th edition of the Jazz à Vienne festival, the Musée d’Histoire de Vienne – église Saint-Pierre will host the exhibition “Miles Davis, 100 ans d'influence” from June 25 to July 11, 2026, from 2 pm to 7 pm. A major figure in the festival’s history and an absolute legend of jazz, Miles Davis will be celebrated through an immersive and evocative journey designed to explore his body of work and his era.

The exhibition features a section titled “Miles en musique”. Every day at 2 pm, a guest speaker will invite the audience to immerse themselves in the artist’s musical world.

On 2nd of June, join Ashley Kahn as he recounts his experience winning the 2026 Grammy Award in the “Best Album Notes” category for his work on “Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings”!

Ashley Kahn is a Grammy Award-winning music historian, author, prolific writer of album liner notes, and producer of recordings and documentaries. He is the author of several books dedicated to legendary albums (such as John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue), an iconic record label (The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records), and he co-wrote Carlos Santana’s autobiography, The Universal Tone. He has received numerous honors, including a lifetime achievement award from the Jazz Journalists Association in 2023. He teaches at the Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music at New York University and is a guest lecturer at various music festivals, conservatories, and music programs around the world.