Stereogum — Don Cheadle’s crowdfunded directorial debut Miles Ahead, a Miles Davis biopic starring Cheadle himself as the jazz legend, is premiering at the New York Film Festival on Sunday. Set in the late ’70s, when Davis withdrew from the public eye, the f... more info
Aquarium Drunkard — John Coltrane would’ve turned 89 today. While it’s a fun parlor game to imagine the twists and turns the saxophonist’s music might’ve taken if he’d lived just another decade longer, in the end we’re lucky to have had him as long we did â€... more info
Mercury News, California — How does one explain a voice that captures the silky/dusty intonations of Rosemary Clooney, Julie London's breathiness, Frank Sinatra's 'let's have a drink and a smoke' ease, and brushes up against the roughness of Chris Isaak without losing a cool g... more info
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
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