LargeHeartedBoy — Iris Dement's The Trackless Woods, The Mynabirds' Lovers Know, La Luz's Weirdo Shrine, and Ultimate Painting's Green Lanes are all new albums I can wholeheartedly recommend this week. Archival recordings include Miles Davis: Live in Tokyo 1975. This ... more info
Aquarium Drunkard — Some recent, recommended archival releases of (mostly) unreleased material from some jazz giants. It’d take a whole lot more than four discs to sum up what Miles Davis was up to onstage from 1955-1975. But the trumpeter’s latest Bootleg SeriesÂ... more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — Last year the New York Film Festival chose to close its annual awards-season confab with "Birdman," a movie about an actor beset by troubles as he sought to stage a Broadway play. more info
The Independent — Miles Davis, Count Basie, Benny Golson – and now Geoffrey, the IT consultant from Brentwood, Essex. He, too, was playing the legendary Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in Soho, London. more info
Core News — “Iggy continues in his new Friday night slot serving you up a sonic cocktail to start the weekend off including tracks by Savages, Miles Davis and Turbonegro. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s alternative spirit s... more info
Stereogum — This week we discussed Taylor Swift’s breakup with Spotify, we ranked Miles Davis’ albums, and we heard new music from Father John Misty and Azealia Banks. Your best and worst comments about these things and more are below. Parklife! THIS WEEK’... more info
Stereogum — Miles Davis was one of the most important musicians of the 20th Century. How important? He’s one of the two or three jazz musicians non-jazz fans have heard of, and may even have heard something by. Davis reshaped jazz in his own image multiple tim... more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — For much of his long, prolific career, jazz trumpeter Clark Terry has been a passionate and generous teacher as well as a performer, mentoring Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, among others. Alan Hicks, one of the young musicians to have enjoyed Clark's ... more info