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MUSIC MONDAY: "Great Moments in Funk" aka Funk 101 (LISTEN)

Happy Music Monday, you all. And welcome to this second week of Black Music Month. Back in April, PBS dropped Independent Lens: We Want the Funk! Director Stanley Nelson and producer Nicole London’s documentary features the history, stars, themes and theory behind this most Blackest and inclusive style of music. Everyone can shake a tail feather on “The One”. It is a celebratory film looking at…

MUSIC MONDAY: "Great Moments in Funk" aka Funk 101 (LISTEN)

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new-to-me #839 - Attica

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Attica Stanley Nelson USA, 2021 ★★★★

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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool to Air on PBS Feb. 25

Did you miss Stanley Nelson's documentary, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool during its theatrical run? Or are you harboring an urge to watch it again? If so, not to worry: PBS is airing the film on February 25. Rolling Stone provides info, this updated trailer and a two-minute clip from the film.

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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool    [trailer]

Documentary that explores archival photos and home movies shot by Miles Davis and his colleagues, his manuscripts and his original paintings, to explore the man behind the music.

Flawed person, brilliant musician.

Great doc. Does an excellent job portraying Davis' unique musical talent and his achievements in general. But also doesn't shy away showing his darker side.

Not for the first time, it left me thinking, that I'm not familiar enough with Davis' oeuvre.

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DOC TRAILER: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool dir. Stanley Nelson, 2019

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Miles Davis Doc Ready for Release

Miles Davis was all music, all the time.

“I go to bed thinking about it and I wake up thinking about it,” the man himself says in his immediately identifiable rasp in the trailer for “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool.”

“That’s all I live for.”

The Stanley Nelson-directed documentary features previously unseen footage and appearances from friends and colleagues including Quincy Jones, Carlos Santana, Clive Davis, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and others.

In the trailer, Davis is heard discussing his descent into heroin addiction and is described as a vampire, a black Superman and a man who was angry and anti-social.

“But then he starts playing,” Santana says, “and people are, like, ahhhhh.

“He just disarms you.”

“Birth of the Cool” opens Aug. 23 in New York and Aug. 30 in Los Angeles before a wider theatrical run in September.

“The story of Miles Davis – who he was as a man and artist – has often been told as the tale of a drug-addled genius,” Nelson said in a news release. “You rarely see a portrait of a man that worked hard at honing his craft, a man who deeply studied all forms of music, from Baroque to classical Indian.”

Davis took pride in his ability to shape shift. And he saw it as essential.

“If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change.”

8/1/19