Miles Davis comes bouncing back to you

[Serial_Apologist]

Two programmes on BBC2 I overlooked when posting my forthcomings.

Thurs 7 November
10pm - Later...with Jools Holland
4/6
Joining the pianoman are grime pioneer and Top Boy star Kano, British and predominantly female jazz sextet Nérija, rising south London singer/songwriter Joy Crookes and electro-pop band Meteronomy. Completing the line-up is Jamie Cullum.

Fri 8 November
11.05pm - Even Later... with Jools Holland and Jamie Cullum
4/6
Joining Jools to host this extended version of yesterday's show, musician and jazz aficionado Jamie Cullum helps to introduce Kano, Nérija, Joy Crookes and Metonomy. In addition to reflecting on the contemporary British jazz scene, the pair will chat to the son and nephew of Miles Davis about his lost album, Rubberband, and the forthcoming BBC2 documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. Jamie will also pick his favourite clips from the Later... archive and perform a track from his recent album, Taller, with a string section and 20 members of the Roundhouse Choir.

Remember: this is where you first heard.

[Ian Thumwood]

The rediscovered Miles album sounds like a load of pop-dross. Miles was one of the most significant figures in 20th Century music yet his recorded output saw a marked decline in the 1980s'. It is intriguing that earlier albums like "The man with the horn" had an increasingly poor reputation as that decade progressed but now sounds far more like a "jazz album" than a lot of the remaining output. There are albums from that era that I enjoyed at the time yet the jazz element of much of Miles' output means that I cannot see that the "Rubberband" record would be of any interest had Miles not had such a great back catalogue. From what I have heard, it is a pop record that has been reproduced to make it sound more contemporary as opposed to being a worthless piece of 1980s nostalgia.