Happy birthday to Miles Davis on what would have been his 99th birthday. No major updates to this list of my personal Miles Top 10, but I added a third bonus track in the coda. Next year will be the Miles' centennial ...

Nightcap Recorded 1933-41. A zillion-and-one stars for this music.

A class I wish I could have taken along the way. Freedman is a hero. He's also right about the fact that there's no such thing as writer's block, only failure to have done enough reporting or one's ego getting in the way of putting words on the page. nytimes.com/2025/05/25/boo…

Mark Stryker He led a group at the Detroit Jazz Festival a number of years ago I believe at the Pyramid stage. He closed out the set with Jean Pierre.

Mark Stryker He's incredible on this track, which I first learned about from you.

Jazz in Detroit Happening now, Sunday night, Aretha's Jazz Café at Music Hall. Rodney Whitaker Quintet with Dwight Adams, Tim Warfield, Rick Roe, Dana Hall.

B. 6/3/23: Al Harewood, one of the all-time swingers. He plays a rimshot on 4 in every bar here for 9 min w/just 3 exceptions, all in the same spot: bar before the bridge on the opening melody & during both trumpet choruses. It’s almost performance art. youtube.com/watch?v=M6a62E…