* Miles Davis' landmark 1970 album Bitches Brew "sounded like the future," according to an article in The Guardian about the recording's 50th anniversary.
* If you missed Tuesday's broadcast premiere of the documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool this week on PBS' American Masters, or want to watch it again, the entire film can be seen for the next 30 days streaming from the PBS website. In addition, the film's director Stanley Nelson and Davis' nephew Vince Wilburn also are featured on the latest episode of the American Masters podcast.
* In a related story, the various periods of Davis' musical career were examined, compared and contrasted by the DJs at WBGO radio.
* Singer Katie Karel's show last week at Blue Strawberry was reviewed by KDHX's Chuck Lavazzi for his blog Stage Left.
* Saxophonist Rev. Cliff Aerie and trumpeter Tim Osiek of the Oikos Ensemble have released Volume 7 in their "Worship Jazz" series of small-group arrangements.
* Saxophonist David Sanborn was the subject of a feature story in the San Jose Mercury News.
* Jazz St. Louis has published on their website a Q&A with pianist Adaron "Pops" Jackson.
* Also from Jazz St. Louis (via St. Louis magazine) comes word that Joanna Serenko, a former student in the organization's JazzU program, is a contestant on the current season of the NBC program The Voice,
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