ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
Latest editorial
Album reviews
Latest releases from Miles Davis, Faye Webster and Black Midi
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
Miles Davis
Merci Miles! Live At Vienne
(Rhino)
★★★★
JAZZ fans are in for a real treat. Merci Miles! is a two-CD album of a previously unreleased Miles Davis Group concert in Vienne, France, from July 1991 — one of Davis’s final live performances before he died a few months later.
The set is largely sourced from his recent records, such as 1987’s Tutu and Amandla two years later, although, tantalisingly, it also includes two tracks written for him by Prince.
Similar stories
New releases from Kneecap, Sam Blasucci, and Juni Habel
New releases from The Dreaming Spires, Bruce Springsteen, and Chet Baker
New releases from Toby Hay, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars
New releases from Steve Tilston, FolkLaw, and Patch and the Giant