Malcolm-Jamal Warner with “Miles Long” at The Cabaret

In partnership with Indy Jazz Fest, join us for an evening with Emmy-nominated actor and Grammy Award-winning poet and musician, Malcolm-Jamal Warner. The show will be an amalgamation of his many talents and musical styles, and it will be exceptional. Many fans don’t know that the actor known to millions of television viewers across America for his famed acting career—such as his breakthrough role as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show or, more recently, as Dr. AJ Austin in FOX’s medical drama The Resident—is also a multi-Grammy award-winning bass player and spoken word poet with his own jazz-funk band, “Miles Long.”

Warner has released four critically acclaimed albums that meld spoken word, jazz, soul, and funk music: Miles Long Mix Tape, Love and Other Social Issues, Selfless, and his most recent album, Hiding in Plain View, which earned him a 2023 Grammy nomination for “Best Spoken Word Album.” In 2015, Warner nabbed his first Grammy Award for “Best Traditional R&B Performance as a Featured Performer” on Robert Glasper’s version of the Stevie Wonder classic “Jesus Children of America,” also featuring Lalah Hathaway.
A can’t-miss intimate evening with a charismatic man of many talents!

MORE ABOUT MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER
Warner first rose to national prominence by starring on the celebrated and long-running classic television series The Cosby Show. His work on the show garnered him a Primetime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and set the stage for a long career in the
3/6 public eye. Warner was recently seen as part of the stellar cast of Fox’s The Resident and Hulu's new crime anthology series, Accused. He also co-starred as A.C. Cowlings opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. on the critically acclaimed FX series American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. Additional television credits include TNT’s hit series Major Crimes, Suits on USA, American Horror Story: Freak Show and Sons of Anarchy for FX, NBC’s Community, The Michael J. Fox Show, TNT’s Hawthorne, AMC’s The Cleaner, and Showtime’s Dexter.
Warner’s film credits include Paramount Pictures’ Drop Zone, Warner Bros’ Picture Fools Gold (opposite Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, and Donald Sutherland), Restaurant, A Fare to Remember, The List (with Wayne Brady) and Wannabe, which was a runaway hit at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
On stage, Warner has starred in the off-Broadway plays Three Ways Home, Cryin’ Shame (NAACP Theater Award for “Best Supporting Actor”), Freefall at the Victory Garden Theatre in Chicago, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the La Jolla Playhouse in California and played Sidney Poitier’s role as Dr. John Prentice in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at both The Huntington Theatre in Washington D.C.’s esteemed Arena Theater. Warner received critical acclaim for the West Coast debut of his one-man theatrical production of Love and Other Social Issues.
As a seasoned director, Warner has worked on a host of television series, including Malcolm & Eddie, The Cosby Show, All That, Keenan & Kel, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street, and Reed Between the Lines. Film credits include Muted (HBO Short Film Competition at the American Black Film Festival), This Old Man, and Timeout: The Truth about HIV, AIDS, and YOU which starred Magic Johnson and Arsenio Hall, earned Warner the NAACP Key of Life Image Award.
When not acting and directing, Warner is a poet and a bass player. In 2015, Warner nabbed his first Grammy Award for “Best Traditional R&B Performance as a Featured Performer” on Robert Glasper’s version of the Stevie Wonder classic “Jesus Children of America,” also featuring Lalah Hathaway. Warner’s jazz-funk band Miles Long has performed in several major jazz festivals, including the Playboy Jazz Festival, and has opened for high-profile artists, including Earl Klugh and the late Luther Vandross, and he recently performed at the historic Apollo Theater. He’s released four critically acclaimed albums: Miles Long Mix Tape, Love and Other Social Issues, Selfless, and his most recent album Hiding in Plain View, which earned him a 2023 Grammy nomination for “Best Spoken Word Album”. Hiding in Plain View, deftly observes the effects of systemic racism on Black America while holding the mirror up to Black Americans and himself. All of Warner’s independently distributed CDs can be purchased on iTunes and MALCOLMJAMALWARNER.COM