Guardian Music — The time has come round again for this week's RR playlistAnother week, another Readers Recommend theme, regular as clockwork. Last week's call for songs about circles solicited some profoundly heady adventures into the subconscious and expressions of... more info

Guardian Music — This remarkable creator – of orchestral pieces and chamber works as well as hybrids of film and performance art – draws on a plethora of influences, yet devises her own astonishing sound All articles in this seriesAfter Igor Stravinsky, it's a bi... more info

Guardian Music — (Heads Up)Former Miles Davis guitarist Mike Stern takes an all-embracing approach here, mixing up funk, blues, African music, soul-jazz, bebop and ballads. He takes an equally sweeping approach to recruiting studio lineups, too: there are star appea... more info

Guardian Music — (Suntara)An absorbing debut album by this young trumpeter-composer, perhaps a little too subdued in tone but packed with ideas. Of the 10 pieces, most are original, several based on what I take to be Middle Eastern scales or rhythms, and all impressi... more info

Guardian Music — From Miles Davis to Manic Street Preachers, six readers tell us about their favourite album sleeve art – what's yours?Thomas Casagranda on Bitches Brew by Miles DavisMati Klarwein, the painter of the artwork, was a European Jewish refugee from Nazi... more info

Guardian Music — (Blue Note)A career on the saxophone with one of the most freethinking saxophonists in music history for a father has to be a tough call. Now 46, Ravi Coltrane, son of John, has often chosen to be a sympathetic sideman rather than the boss. But his B... more info

Guardian Music — (Concord)New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott's 2010 album Yesterday You Said Tomorrow received acclaim for its balance of early-jazz brass power and contemporary urban sounds, and for the unflinching social and political agenda he managed to raise ... more info

Mjsbigblog — American Idol alum, Joshua Ledet, sang the National Anthem at the Miles Davis Official Stamp Dedication, sponsored by the US Post Office. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Some of the year's best work has come from seasoned rappers such as 'Killer Mike,' 2 Chainz and Pusha T. Similar to the days when Miles Davis pushed jazz forward.Few would have imagined that one of the most powerful and acclaimed protest songs of the... more info

Totally Fuzzy — "Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" is an album by Miles Davis, recorded in 1956 but not released until 1961 as PRLP 7200. A new remastered release by Concord Music Group can be streamed in full below. And since I already mentioned the Isle... more info