Davis solos less on Merci Miles than I wish he had, but he plays with precision, taste, and expression.
Miles-Davis
Jazz CD Review: Miles Davis’ “Rubberband” — Stretch Your Ears
Heard as a Miles Davis record pure and simple, Rubberband is one of the strongest from the comeback period.
Jazz Album Review: Miles Davis — An Excellent Homage to the Master
This album does an excellent job of recapturing some of the glory of the original Miles Davis recordings.
Rock Preview: Lettuce — Stirring up a “Witches Stew” at the House of Blues
“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”
Jazz CD Review: Miles Davis at Newport — Indispensable
Miles Davis at Newport, 1955-1975 has its drawbacks, but I wouldn’t want to be without this four-disc collection
Theater Interview: Actor Marc Labrèche — On Robert Lepage’s “Needles and Opium”
“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”
Music Review: Becoming Coltrane: Part One
By J. R. Carroll This review/commentary will focus on Coltrane’s recordings with the Miles Davis Quintet for Columbia (in October 1955 and June and September 1956) and Prestige (in November 1955 and May and October 1956), as well as a variety of sideman dates and nominally leaderless sessions, many of which have recently been reissued […]
