Blu-ray Review: Miles Ahead
Extras include insight-filled featurettes
Videos
Jazz is not only heard but also seen—read our critics’ takes on live videos and documentaries.
Miles Ahead Reviewed: Miles Misguided
A bizarre action-movie narrative derails Don Cheadle’s long-anticipated jazz flick
The New Chet Baker Biopic: Fact, Fiction & Poetic Truth
Spirit and story top biography in Robert Budreau’s inventive “Born to Be Blue”
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Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions
The Unity Sessions strives to capture the connections, both musical and extramusical, shared by the members of guitarist Pat Metheny’s most recent working group, the … Read More “Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions“
Jaco Pastorius: JACO
It’s hard to overestimate how eagerly fusion fans anticipated JACO, the first full-length documentary on Jaco Pastorius, the game-changing electric bass virtuoso and gifted composer. … Read More “Jaco Pastorius: JACO”
Gil-Scott Heron: Black Wax
The films of Robert Mugge engage crucially not only with the sounds but also the philosophies of the artists whose work they explore, and it … Read More “Gil-Scott Heron: Black Wax“
Branford Marsalis Quartet: Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: Live in Amsterdam
Branford Marsalis’ 2002 album, Footsteps of Our Fathers, which included his quartet’s recitation of John Coltrane’s four-part suite A Love Supreme, drew mostly favorable reviews, … Read More “Branford Marsalis Quartet: Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: Live in Amsterdam”
Gary McFarland: This is Gary McFarland
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” On Nov. 2, 1971, Gary McFarland died under mysterious circumstances at the 55 … Read More “Gary McFarland: This is Gary McFarland“
DVD Review: The Language of the Unknown
Wayne Shorter concert and documentary
