Miles Davis
The Front Row
Roy Brooks’s “Understanding,” a Crucial Jazz Rediscovery in Sound and Sense
The first release of the drummer’s 1970 quintet recording displays the era’s key musical and political influences.
Life and Letters
Nathaniel Mackey’s Long Song
Listening to music with the poet whose alternative history of humankind intersects with the realities of Black life in America.
The Front Row
The Thrills and Frustrations of a Rediscovered Thelonious Monk Recording
“Palo Alto,” a previously unissued concert recording of Monk and his quartet, from 1968, offers distinctive and illuminating pleasures.
The Front Row
The Haunted Jazz of Hank Mobley
The tenor saxophonist and composer had grand musical designs and concepts in mind—and he even realized some of them, though many weren’t released at the time of their recording.
The Front Row
Review: “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” and the Problem of the Archive
The quantity of material in Stanley Nelson’s documentary about the legendary jazz musician becomes an impediment to a sense of passion for any bit of it.
2018 in Review
The Best Archival Jazz Releases of 2018
The year’s reissues and rediscoveries expand our understanding of legends like Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
Cultural Comment
My Journey with Jazz
The Current Cinema
Fun and Games
Richard Brody
Rosh Hashanah with Miles Davis
Richard Brody
Miles Davis’s Boldest Heights
Photo Booth
Happy Birthday, Miles Davis
Goings On About Town
This Week
Annals of Gastronomy
Check, Please
A Critic at Large