JazzTimes | October 2019
MILES DAVIS
It’s never a bad time to be a Miles fan, but 2019 is proving to be a banner year in multiple media. Lee Mergner gets the story behind the lost ’80s album Rubberband and talks to director Stanley Nelson Jr. about his career-comprehensive Miles doc, while composer/arranger Ryan Truesdell pays tribute to Birth of the Cool, now in a swanky 70th-anniversary box.
THEO CROKER
Sure, he’s got a great backstory—grandson of a legend, Dee Dee Bridgewater protégé, frequent explorer of the Asian jazz scene—but on the
evidence of his latest, fearlessly eclectic album Star People Nation, Theo Croker’s future looks even more exciting. Ted Panken talks to a trumpeter with a surfeit of creative ideas and no qualms about speaking his mind.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in JazzTimes October 2019.