A black-and-white, low-angle photograph of Miles Davis performing on stage at the North Sea Jazz Festival. He is seen from the chest up, wearing a white cap and a light-colored vest, looking down as he holds his trumpet. In the background, a stage banner partially reads "ZZ FESTIV" under bright concert spotlights that create a dramatic lens flare. — Miles Davis at the North Sea Jazz Festival at the Congresgebouw in The Hague, Netherlands on July 15, 1984. Credit: Rob Bogaerts / Anefo / Rob Bogaerts / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Miles Davis, the coolest man in music would’ve turned 100 years old this year, so it’s only fitting that the Tampa Jazz Club would stage a tribute.

The University of South Florida’s faculty jazztet drives this Miles Davis tribute recreating the 1957 album Birth of the Cool, where the famed trumpeter first connected with pianist Gil Evans.

On WMNF Tampa’s “Jazz In The Night,” USF’s Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Trombone, Tom Brantley, told host Bob Seymour that the compositions “still stands up like no tomorrow,” for listeners but especially for players.

Brantley’s nontet includes trumpeter John Castleman, saxophone players Aaron West and Ross Strauser, plus Lyndsie Wilson on French Horn, tuba player Phil Beatty, pianist Pablo Arencibia, bassist Mark Neuenschwander, and David Rudolph on drums.

Tickets to see USF Faculty Jazztet’s Miles Davis centennial concert inside the Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough College in Ybor City on Sunday, April 19 are still available for $30.