On 2011’s Kind of Miles, Chicago-based trumpeter Corey Wilkes pays tribute to the late, great Miles Davis. The album, recorded live at Chicago's Velvet Lounge, features material composed by or associated with Davis. Wilkes and the band (tenor saxophonist Kevin Nabors, keyboardist Greg Spero, bassist Junius Paul, drummer Xavier Breaker, and percussionist Kahil El Zabar) use the compositions as starting points for lengthy, freewheeling improvisational journeys. The musicians are clearly influenced by hip-hop and funk, whether they're playing Jerome Kern’s “Yesterdays”— which Davis covered early in his career—or the Marcus Miller-penned “Tutu,” the title track of a 1986 Davis release. “It’s About That Time” (which first appeared on the 1969 classic In a Silent Way as a slice of sinuous funk-tinged jazz) takes on a heavier, harder-edged quality here. The album closes with “So What/In It’s Right Place”; it's basically an extended cover of Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place” that at one point includes the “So What” theme played by Paul on bass.