Returning Summer 2013

School has kept me inactive, but that ends in June, whereupon I'll revive this here blog (maybe under a new name, maybe not). I've listened to so little jazz that it's kinda embarrassing to admit. (I did love new work from Vijay Iyer, The Bad Plus, Robert Glasper, and ERIMAJ, though).

Here are a few things that I'll be listening to in the meantime. See you in six months.

Happy Birthday Miles

See also: 

• Breaking down the first great Miles Davis Quintet
• My favorite tracks from the second great Miles Davis Quintet
• Blue in Green four ways
• A quick word about A Tribute to Jack Johnson
• Miles remembers one of his most celebrated performances
• Miles' 1959 arrest in NYC
• A Miles Davis radio interview before he lost his voice
• Visualizing Flamenco Sketches

Marion Brown in 1967

Robert Glasper on Bullseye

"I'm playing jazz that's 2012."

Bullseye

tUnE-yArDs at Coachella

Not quite jazz, but I love the way Merrill Garbus incorporates improvisation into her live performances.