Keyon Harrold Carnegie Hall tribute

WBGO said on May 13 that it will carry a live broadcast from Carnegie Hall on Saturday night, airing trumpeter Keyon Harrold’s concert honoring Miles Davis. Carnegie Hall lists the performance for May 16 at 9 p.m. in Zankel Hall, where Harrold is scheduled to lead “A Miles Davis Centennial Celebration.” WBGO described the transmission as its first live broadcast from Carnegie Hall. (wbgo.org) The concert lands days before May 26, 2026, the 100th anniversary of Davis’s birth, which jazz presenters and broadcasters have been marking with special programming. ### When and where is the concert taking place? Carnegie Hall lists Keyon Harrold’s concert for Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 9 p.m. in Zankel Hall in New York. The hall’s event page bills the program as “A Miles Davis Centennial Celebration.” Carnegie Hall’s season pages also place the date within its 2025-2026 jazz programming and its “Late Nights at Zankel Hall” series. (wbgo.org) The May 16 performance also appears in Carnegie Hall’s May 2026 calendar and on the venue’s home page listings. Those pages identify Harrold as the featured trumpeter and place the event among the hall’s mid-May programs. ### What exactly did WBGO announce? WBGO published a program notice on May 13 saying listeners could tune in Saturday at 9 p.m. on 88.3 FM and WBGO.org for a live Carnegie Hall broadcast featuring Harrold. (wbgo.org) The Newark-based jazz station called it “our first-ever live broadcast from Carnegie Hall” and said the concert would honor the centennial of Miles Davis’s birth. The station’s post tied the concert to Carnegie Hall’s “United in Sound: America at 250” festival. (carnegiehall.org) Carnegie Hall announced that festival in an October 2025 release, which included Harrold’s Miles Davis tribute among scheduled events. ### Why is Keyon Harrold leading a Miles Davis program? Carnegie Hall’s event description says Harrold was chosen for a centennial salute to Davis because of his own cross-genre work and broad performance record. (carnegiehall.org) The hall’s materials describe Harrold as a Grammy-nominated trumpeter with credits that include collaborations with Robert Glasper, Beyoncé, Gregory Porter and Mary J. Blige. Carnegie Hall and WBGO both note another direct link to Davis’s legacy: Harrold recorded the trumpet parts heard in Don Cheadle’s film “Miles Ahead.” That credit has been part of how both organizations framed Harrold’s role in the tribute. (wbgo.org) ### How does this fit into the wider Miles Davis centennial? (wbgo.org) WBGO said in an April 2 feature on pianist John Beasley that May 26, 2026 marks the centennial of Davis’s birth and that artists across the year were mounting concerts and recordings to commemorate it. That report cited musicians including Branford Marsalis, Emmet Cohen, Marcus Miller and Terence Blanchard among those involved in centennial programming. The Carnegie Hall concert falls 10 days before that centennial date. (carnegiehall.org) Carnegie Hall’s October 2025 festival announcement and its current season listings both present Harrold’s appearance as part of that broader anniversary calendar. ### Where can listeners find the broadcast next? (carnegiehall.org) WBGO said the live broadcast is scheduled for Saturday, May 16, at 9 p.m. on 88.3 FM and at WBGO.org. Carnegie Hall’s event page lists the same start time for Zankel Hall, where Harrold is set to perform the Miles Davis centennial program in person. (wbgo.org) (carnegiehall.org) (wbgo.org)