Guy Barker has arranged a new suite based on Kind of Blue with his jazz orchestra joined by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to be recorded for radio broadcast.

The trumpeter and bandleader, film composer and arranger has had a high profile year with a Proms appearance, and in November he’s involved once more on the opening night of the London Jazz Festival when he conducts and arranges for a host of singers and his jazz orchestra at the Gala Vocals night held in the Barbican,

Before that for this one-off highly ambitious project Barker with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is combining in a presentation later this month called Miles Symphonic: The Music of Miles Davis at the glitzy Blackpool Tower Ballroom in the much loved Lancashire seaside resort.

Last year the BBC Philharmonic launched the first of a series of concerts of which this is the latest and what’s intended on this occasion is that Barker and his orchestra team up with the Philharmonic for a Milesian evening to be broadcast live.

The BBC Phil has broadened its horizons with cross-genre collaborations in the past few years featuring the likes of indie band the XX and singer Richard Hawley, but this is something of a first in terms of a major jazz project for them. The concert is on 17 October, and tickets are available through a ballot at www.bbc.co.uk/tickets until 8 October.

Stephen Graham

Guy Barker pictured