Despite the fact that its in Santa Ana, I’m definitely gonna try to make the trip up this Sat. I mean look at that fuckin line-up ..Free Moral Agents, Look Daggers, Busdriver, Nobody, Blank Blue, Free the Robots.. only $10?!

Free Moral Agents also have a local show coming up on the 25th @ Beauty Bar. However, since i cant find any other info on their site, dont hold me to this.

Recommendations:

Jurassic 5 – J5: 11th Anniversary CD

Cd1

1. In The Flesh
2. Quality Control Part 2
3. Jayou
4. Lesson 6: The Lecture
5. Concrete Schoolyard
6. Setup
7. Action Satisfaction
8. Sausage Gut
9. Improvise
10. Blacktop Beat
11. Without A Doubt
12. Lesson 6 (Reprise)
13. Action Satisfaction (Dub)

Cd2

1. Ignition Sequence
2. Ducky Boy
3. Verbal Gunfight
4. Rubber Tires
5. Long Road To Glory
6. Ghetto Diplomat
7. Lesson Four: The Radio
8. Jayou Remix
9. The Rhythm
10. (Who’s Gonna Be The) Next Victim
11. The Joint Freestyle
12. The Joint Promo
13. Wake Up Show Promo
14. Power 106 Promo
15. Unified Rebelution

Blue Sky Black Death – Slow Burning Lights

1. Secrets
2. Once Away
3. Hot Night
4. Honestly
5. Stillness
6. Movements
7. Come Inside
8. Tokyo Underground
9. Pretend
10. The Darkest Time

T-Love – No Apologies

1. On My Mind
2. When You’re Older
3. Force Be With You
4. Worry Free
5. Butcher’s Hook
6. Nobody Knows My Name
7. From LA To Brooklyn Remix Ft Siah & Yeshua
8. Freestyle
9. Spill Milk Ft Dilated Peoples
10. Follow Me (OG Mix)
11. Vocab Ft The Procussions
12. Seven (OG Mix)
13. I Be Flexin
14. Return Of The B-Girl Ft Kool Keith
15. QMS
16. From The Ground Up Remix Ft Iriscience
17. Genius At Work Ft Fatlip
18. What’s Next
19. Heavyweight Round 2 Ft Ganjah K, Volume10, Koko, Freestyle Fellowship, Medus…
20. Blew Knews

Greyboy – 15 Years Of West Coast Cool

1. Unwind Your Mind (Feat. Karl Denson)
2. Ruffneck Jazz
3. Grey’s Groove (Feat. Karl Denson)
4. Panacea
5. Whirlwind
6. Mastered The Art (Nicola Conte Jet Sounds Remix)
7. Hold Your Weight (Feat. AG)
8. Hold It Down (Feat. Muddie) (Greyboy Remix)
9. Got To Be Love (Feat. Quantic & Sharon Jones)
10. Genevieve (Feat. Bart Davenport)
11. To Know You Is To Love You (Feat. Bart Davenport)
12. Love (Feat. Nino Moschella)
13. Color In Between The Lines (Feat. Jeremy Ellis)
14. Missin’ Something (Feat. Shawn Lee)

14kt – The Golden Hour

1. The Waiting Room (Main Theme)
2. Surgery
3. The Inside
4. NNE Mode
5. Ypsilanti
6. Hihatspectations
7. The D Light In You
8. Love Handle
9. Tick Tock Hustle
10. Ivory Pillars
11. ICU Smile
12. Can We? (Chill Again)
13. Trust Issues
14. When My Sunsets (The Golden Hour)
15. Less Than Enough
16. The Night
17. Reprise (Start Over)
18. Miss U. (4 Lost Loved Ones)
19. Without Dilla (Donut 2 Dilla Feb ‘06)
20. Illustrious (End Titles)

88-Keys – The Death Of Adam

1. Morning Wood
2. Nice Guys Finish Last
3. The Friends Zone (feat. Shitake Monkey)
4. Handcuff ‘Em
5. Stay Up! (Viagra) (feat. Kanye West)
6. There’s Pleasure In It
7. (Awww Man) Round 2?
8. Dirty Peaches (feat. J’Davey)
9. Close Call (feat. Phonte)
10. The Burning Bush (feat. Redman)
11. Ho’ Is Short For Honey (feat. Kid Cudi)
12. No. I Said I LIKED You
13. M.I.L.F. (feat. Bilal)
14. Another Victim

Jedi Mind Tricks – A History Of Violence

1. Intro
2. Deathbed Doctrine
3. Deadly Melody (Feat. Block McCloud And Demoz)
4. Monlith
5. Those With No Eyes (Interlude)
6. Trail Of Lies
7. Heavy Artillery
8. Seance Of Shamans (Feat. Outerspace And Doap Nixon)
9. Geometry In Static (Interlude)
10. Godflesh (Feat. Block McCloud And King Magnetic)
11. Terror (Feat. Demoz)
12. Butcher Knife Bloodbath
13. The Sixth Gate Shines No More (Interlude)
14. Death Messiah

Loosies:

Coultrain – The Wanderer Mix III

Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Logic Jump Rmx

Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day

Jay Electronica – Exhibit A (Transformations) prod by Just Blaze

PPP feat. Coultrain – Angel (Waajeed Remix)

DJ Z-Trip – Obama Mix

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This Week’s:


Clutchy Hopkins – Sleepers Never Dig, Diggers Never Sleep [Mix]

Los Angeles/Apple Valley producer Clutchy Hopkins returns with a new mixtape for 2006. He got on the 1’s and 2’s with his brother one day and created this mix after a fat blunt session. Limited to 100 copies.

1. Part 1 (15:49)
2. Part 2 (17:39)

Black Milk - Tronic [Buy]

1. Long Story Short feat. Dwele
2. Bounce
3. Give The Drummer Su
4. Without U feat. Colin Munroe
5. Hold It Down
6. Losing Out feat. Royce da 5′9
7. Hell Yeah feat. Fat Ray
8. Overdose
9. Reppin For U feat. AB
10. The Matrix feat. Pharoahe Monch, Sean Price & DJ Premier
11. Try
12. Tronic Summer
13. Bond 4 Life feat. Melanie Rutherford
14. Elec (OUTRO)

Mark Farina – Mushroom Jazz Vol. 6 [Buy]

1. The Jazzual Suspects – This Beat
2. Smooth Current – Fools Competition
3. Ta’Raach – Baaaby
4. Kero One – Groovin’
5. Jamal – Jamal 141
6. Colossus – Dopebeatz
7. Brawdcast – Calm Down (Instrumental)
8. J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science – Alive (Instrumental)
9. Gagle – Scene #2 (Instrumental)
10. Uneaq – Just Checkin’ (J’s Stripped Down Instrumental)
11. Colossus feat. G-off & The Whooligan – The What?
12. Rubberoom – Bodysnatchin’ (On the Isle)
13. Flash – Wasn’t Really Worth My Time
14. Mark Farina – Life
15. The Jazzual Suspects – Ba Dada
16. Super Smoky Soul – Untitled 005
17. Choice37 – Way Back When
18. Colossus – Transit
19. J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science – Day at the Beach
20. Dave Allison – Reflections

Q-Tip – The Renaissance [Buy]

1. Johnny Is Dead
2. Won’t Trade
3. Gettin’ Up
4. Official
5. You
6. We Fight / Love feat. Raphael Saadiq
7. Manwomanboogie feat. Amanda Diva
8. Move
9. Dance On Glass
10. Life Is Better feat. Norah Jones
11. Believe feat. D’Angelo
12. Shaka

Illa J – Yancey Boys [Buy]

1. Timeless
2. We Here
3. R U Listenin’? (feat. Guilty Simpson)
4. Alien Family (By Frank Nitty)
5. Strugglin’
6. Showtime
7. Swagger
8. Mr. Shakes (a.k.a. Affion Crockett) (Skit)
9. DFTF (feat. Affion Crockett)
10. All Good
11. Souds Like Love (feat. Debi Nova)
12. Everytime
13. Illasoul
14. Air Signs

Blue Sky Black Death - A Heap Of Broken Images (CD2) [Buy]

CD1

1. Skies Open
2. Days Are Years
3. Chloroform
4. Not Here
5. They Came Around
6. Dream Of Dying
7. From Suns Angle
8. Rap Creature Land
9. Heroin For God
10. Guilty Ones
11. The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter
12. Still Asleep

CD2

1. Engage My Words Ft Jus Allah Wise Intelligent And Sabac Red
2. Street Legends Ft A-Plus And Pep Love
3. Floor Chalk Best Reprise Ft Guru And Chief Kamanchi
4. Scriptures Ft Lil Sci
5. Long Division Ft Rob Sonic And Mike Ladd
6. I Catch Fire Ft Holocaust
7. Grimey Styles Ft Mikah 9
8. Brain Cells Ft Virtuoso
9. Everything Ft Awol One
10. It Wasnt White

Murs – Murs For President [Buy]

1. Intro
2. I’m Innocent
3. Lookin’ Fly Feat. Will.I.Am
4. The Science
5. Can It Be (Half A Million Dollars and 18 Months Later)
6. Everything
7. Road Is My Religion
8. Soo Comfortable
9. Time Is Now Feat. Snoop Dogg
10. Think You Know Me
11. Me and This Jawn
12. Love and Appreciate II Feat. Tyler Woods
13. A Part Of Me
14. Break Up (The Oj Song)
15. Breakthrough

Loosies:

Evidence – For Whom The Bell Tolls Feat. Blu, Phonte, & Will.I.Am (Prod. By Khrysis)

Mos Def – Life In Marvelous Times

Exile – In Love

FLYamSAM – Green Tea Power

So after nearly a year, Ive grown very tired of tumblr. I also registered eclecticsoundclash.com for $2.19/yr (GoDaddy.com coupon code: 199TEST).

Guess i’ll continue where i left off then..

Serious props to Andres (Classic Drug References) for puttin this shit together.

If you miss this show..

youre just a straight up retard.

Recommendations:

Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins – Clutch Of The Tiger

1. Full Moon
2. Two Steps Back
3. Things Change
4. Bill Blows It
5. So Easily, So Naturally
6. Leon Me
7. Dollar Short
8. When I Was Young
9. Across The Pond
10. Bad Influence
11. Till Next Time
12. Indian Burn

Johnson & Jonson (Blu & Mainframe) – Powders & Oils

1. J & J
2. Up All Night
3. Half A’ Knot
4. Mama Told Me
5. The Gusto Room (feat. Stand Up By Bobo Lamb as Jack Johnson)
6. Wow!
7. The Only Way
8. In The Building (feat. Vocalist Miguel as Jontel Johnson)
9. Bout It, Bout It (feat. Raps By Mainframe As Jon Johnson)
10. Spell Check (feat. Gang Sign Language By Big D Menace)
11. Long Time Gone
12. Still Up All Night (feat. Co$$ as Troy Johnson)
13. A Perfect Picture
14. Anything Is Possible (feat. Raps By Randy & Jon Johnson)
15. The Oath
16. Hidden Bonus Track

Now On – Dont Call It A Mixtape (Hosted By DJ House Shoes)

1. House Shoes
2. The Now On Show
3. Keep Goin’
4. I’m Sayin’ [Remix] feat. Aloe Blacc
5. Get Yours Freestyle
6. I Try feat. Mello
7. Glory Days feat. Buff1
8. Nevermind That – E Reece feat. Buff1 & Now On
9. My Heart And I Need Space To Grow
10. Sandineaston Freestyle feat. Aloe Blacc
11. For You
12. Up At It Again [Black Milk Remix]
13. To The Top feat. TiRon
14. This Time Around [Snippet]
15. True Colors – Buff1 feat Now On
16. Party Like A Politician feat. Buff1 & Tenacity
17. Jihad feat. Isis Wise
18. White Girls

Wee Bee Foolish – Brighton Beach Memoirs

1. Intro
2. Whatcha Need
3. Energy
4. Triplets
5. Don’t You Cry
6. Funk Keeps B
7. This Kid
8. Envelope Pusherz
9. Breeze
10. Pimpflomein
11. Chedda Chasers
12. Midtro
13. Turn It Out
14. Main Attraction
15. Remember
16. Properly Done
17. La Celle
18. It’s Only Right
19. Tiger Books (LP)

VA – Ghostly Swim

1. Michna – Triple Chrome Dipped
2. Dabrye – Temper
3. The Chap – Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley
4. Dark Party – Active
5. Tycho – Cascade [Live Version]
6. JDSY – All Shapes
7. Deastro – Light Powered
8. Matthew Dear – R+S
9. FLYamSAM – The Offbeat
10. Cepia – Ithaca
11. Aeroc – Idiom
12. The Reflecting Skin – Traffickers
13. School of Seven Bells – Chain
14. Ben Benjamin – Squirmy Sign Language
15. Kill Memory Crash – Hit + Run
16. Osborne – Wait A Minute
17. Milosh – Then It Happened
18. 10:32 – Blue Little
19. Mux Mool – Night Court

New Jack Hustle [Newman (of Giant Panda) & Shawn Jackson] – Sound Check

1. First Newport
2. Theme Music
3. More
4. Inglewood
5. Sooner Or Later
6. Lionel
7. New Shades
8. Suprise
9. Wow
10. Saturday Night
11. Sunday Morning
12. Ronald
13. Last Newport

Foreign Exchange – Leave It All Behind (CD2)

1. Daykeeper
2. Take Off The Blues (feat. Darien Brockington)
3. All Or Nothing / Comming Home To You (feat. Darien Brockington)
4. I Wanna Know
5. House Of Cards (feat. Muhsinah)
6. Sweeter Than You
7. Valediction
8. If She Breaks Your Heart (feat. Zo! & Yahzarah)
9. If This Is Love (feat. Yahzarah)
10. Something To Behold (feat. Munsinah & Darien Brockington)
11. Leave It All Behind

Sorry its been a while since i posted weekly recommendations..moved into a new place and just havent found the time. Heres somethin to hold you over till Tues:

Click ^ for a pretty sweet 1 hour mix-track from Thes One of People Under the Stairs ..and dont forget to cop Fun DMC on the 30th.

Click ^ to download the album sampler. Foreign Exchange’s (Phonte & Nicolay)  2nd LP, Leave It All Behind drops on October 7th as a digital download (w/ instrumentals) hard copy on October 14th.

Tracklist:

1. Daykeeper
2. Take Off The Blues
3. All Or Nothing/Coming Home To You
4. I Wanna Know
5. House Of Cards
6. Sweeter Than You
7. Valediction
8. If She Breaks Your Heart
9. If This Is Love
10. Something To Behold
11. Leave It All Behind

Now i know there are probably a lotta Doom haters these days after all the Doom-poster shit hes been pullin..but you cant deny his talent..and its not like we pay for his cds anyways ;] I’ll have the album up as soon as it leaks so check back around October 21st.

New Clutchy Hopkins material drops October 21st in a collaboration with Shawn Lee called Clutch Of The Tiger. ” It’s dusty and mysterious junkyard jazz that’s powered by sly beats and other-worldly funk.” -Ubiquity Records

Click tracks below to hear audio snippets:

1. Full Moon
2. Two Steps Back
3. Things Change
4. Bill Blows It
5. So Easily, So Naturally
6. Leon Me
7. Dollar Short
8. When I Was Young
9. Across The Pond
10. Bad Infulence
11. Till Next Time
12. Indian Burn

Criminally slept on, People Under The Stairs continue to produce quality music album after album. Above is a video of Thes One breaking down his creative process on the MPC, then a video of Thes and Double K clowning around in their home studio.

This week’s:

People Under The Stairs – The Om Years [Disc1, Disc2]

DISC 1 (Best of The Om Years):

1. Intro
2. San Francisco Knights
3. 43 Labels I Like
4. Time To Rock Our Shit
5. The Cat
6. We’ll Be There
7. Youth Explosion
8. Code Check
9. Give Love A Chance
10. Jappy Jap
11. The Suite For A Beaver Pt. 1
12. O.S.T. (Original Soundtrack)
13. Empty Bottles Of Water
14. The L.A. Song
15. Hang Loose
16. Acid Raindrops
17. The Breakdown
18. Montego Slay
19. Yield
20. Play It Again / Outro

DISC 2 (B-Sides & Rarities):

1. Invisible Blunt
2. I-15
3. Tour Guide
4. Schooled In The Trade (Instrumental)
5. Big Daddy Brown
6. Hang Loose Pt. 2
7. Sunroof (Instrumental)
8. The Bomb Combo
9. Afternoon Connection
10. Out Da Club
11. We’ll Be There (10 Seconds Remix)

Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Sahara Swing

1. When The Sun Breaks Through
2. Nyx
3. Followed Path
4. Transition “J”
5. Sahara Swing
6. Psycles
7. Transition “I”
8. Koloko Pt. 1
9. Debere
10. Transition “Z”
11. Jabore Pt. 3
12. Mystical Brotherhood
13. Timely Interuption
14. Transition “W”
15. Mellow (Version)
16. Rush Hour
17. Transition “W”
18. Toure Samar
19. Passau Run

Phonte (Little Brother) – The Phon-Tigga

1. Intergalactic Soul
2. Backstage Girl
3. The Animal (Featuring Murs)
4. Feelin Alright (Featuring Big Pooh)
5. Beats N Rhymes (Featuring Kev Brown & Oddisee)
6. Let it Be Known (Featuring Sean Price)
7. Pure (Featuring L.E.G.A.C.Y.)
8. Make it Hot (Featuring Sean Boog & Joe Scudda)
9. The Perch (Featuring Oddisee & Tor)
10. No Fear (Featuring Cool C Brown & Asheru)
11. Whos That (Featuring Sean Boog & L.E.G.A.C.Y.)
12. Birdz (Featuring Buckshot & Keisha Shontelle)
13. (Bonus) It’s My Life (Featuring Polyrhythm Addicts)
14. (Bonus) Ladder of Success (Featuring K-Hill, Wordsworth & Masta Ace)

Richy Pitch – Live at Home

1. Live at Home – (remix, feat. El Da Sensei)
2. The Bed (intro)
3. Day to Day – (feat. Apani B Fly)
4. Lyricist, The – (feat. J-Live)
5. Monotone MC’s
6. Phone Bizness – (feat. Mr. Complex)
7. Record Lovers
8. Time Is Right, The – (feat. Asheru Of The Unspoken Heard)
9. Time Is Right, The – (Mother Chunker remix, feat. Asheru)

VA – 7Heads R Better Than 1 Vol. 1: No Edge-Ups In South Africa

1. BMIG – Asheru
2. Braggin Writes (Domecracker Remix) – J-Live
3. The Gusto – Audessey The Sound Sci Of Mass Influence (feat. Apple Jac)
4. Backstage – Wordsworth
5. Full Blown – El Da Sensai
6. Mood Swing – Asheru (feat. Talib Kweli)
7. Reflections On A Heart Attack – RLD & Richy Pitch
8. Mr. Dynamite – Djinji Brown
9. This Is Hip Hop – Oddissee & Kenn Starr
10. Queen City Remix – BJ & Piakhan (feat. Akil)
11. Say Cheese – J-Live
12. Night Shift – Audessey The Sound Sci Of Mass Influence
13. Bosoms – J-Live, Wordsworth, Eric Krasno & Neal Evans Of Soulive, and Adam Deitch Of Lettuce
14. Trackrunners – Asheru (feat. J-Live & Grap Luva)

Clutchy Hopkins & Misled Children – People’s Market

1. 3:25
2. 4:52
3. 1:52
4. 2:59
5. 2:53
6. 1:17
7. 3:35
8. 5:00
9. 1:14
10. 3:41
11. 3:00
12. 1:38
13. 3:24
14. 3:38

The Budos Band – The Budos Band

1. Up From The South
2. T.I.B.W.F.
3. Budos Theme
4. Ghost Walk
5. Monkey See, Monkey Do
6. Sing A Simple Song
7. Eastbound
8. Aynotchesh Yererfu
9. King Charles
10. The Volcano Song
11. Across The Atlantic

Podcast:

Heliocentrics have a new single on Now-Again Records coming in the Fall. Gaslamp Killer is from SD, works in LA and has a record coming out on Money Studies at the end of the year.

Ratatat – Mirando

Ratatat – Flynn

Ratatat – Shempi

Ratatat – Germany to Germany

If youre in the L.A. area September 6th check out Blu & Mainframe perform as Johnson & Jonson to celebrate the release of their self-titled album, which drops the 23rd on Tres Records. Guest appearances from Gaslamp Killer, Exile, Gonja Sufi and Co$$. Don’t miss this shit!

Doors Open at 9:30
21 & OVER
Ladies get in free before 11.
Dudes $5 before 10:30, $10 after.

Here’s a Johnson & Jonson’s video – “Bout it Bout it”

Do not sleep.. on Broken Social Scene!

price :     $25.00 – $40.00
date :     Fri, August 22
door :     7:00pm
show:     8:00pm
genre:    Indie Rock
age :      21+ w/id

House of Blues San Diego » Tickets
1055 Fifth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
619.299.BLUE (2583)

MAIN STAGE:

4:30 – Grand Ole Party
6:00 – Saul Williams
7:30 – Kinky
9:00 – The Black Keys
10:30 – Common

LOCAL STAGE :

3:15 – The Burning of Rome
4:00 – Lady Dottie & The Diamonds
5:30 – Buddy Akai
7:00 – The Silent Comedy
8:30 – Shark Attack

MSTRKRFT remixes Green Light by John Legend and Andre 3000 (Outkast). Green Light will be on Legend’s upcoming album Evolve, to be released in October.

This Thursday (August 21)  Bloc Party will digitally release Intimacy, their unexpectedly imminent third full-length LP. The physical release, featuring different tracks from the digital, will drop October 28 through Atlantic.

Although its been a while since I gave them a listen..I’m looking forward to hearing their progression.

Tracklist:

1. Ares
2. Mercury
3. Halo
4. Biko
5. Trojan Horse
6. Signs
7. One Month Off
8. Zephyrus
9. Better Than Heaven
10. Ion Square

[Download]

Recommendations:

Isaac Hayes – Very Best Of

1. Precious, Precious
2. Walk on By
3. By the Time I Get to Phoenix
4. I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself
5. I Stand Accused
6. Look of Love
7. Never Can Say Goodbye
8. Theme from Shaft
9. Do Your Thing
10. Let’s Stay Together
11. Soulsville
12. Ain’t That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One) – Isaac Hayes, David Porter
13. Theme from The Men
14. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right
15. Rolling Down a Mountainside [From Wattstax]
16. Joy, Pt. 1
17. Wonderful
18. Title Theme [From Three Tough Guys]

Yeshua Da Poed – Into Fresh Things [Link 2]

1. Welcome (Interlude)
2. Shout
3. Apt 209
4. On2DBeat
5. U Don’t Really?
6. Convo to Have (Interlude)
7. Victim
8. Most Days
9. Hustlers

Lykke Li - Youth Novels [PW: matisse]

1. Melodies & Desires
2. Dance, Dance, Dance
3. I’m Good, I’m Gone
4. Let It Fall
5. My Love
6. Tonight
7. Little Bit
8. Hanging High
9. This Trumpet In My Head
10. Complaint Department
11. Breaking It Up
12. Everybody But Me
13. Time Flies
14. Window Blues

Lettuce – Outta Here

1. Outta Here
2. The Dump
3. Squadlive
4. Back In Effect
5. Twisted
6. Superfred
7. Reunion
8. The Flu
9. Nyack
10. Hang Up Your Hangups
11. Nyack

The Budos Band – The Budos Band II

1. Chicago Falcon
2. Budos Rising
3. Ride Or Die
4. Mas O Menos
5. Adeniji
6. King Cobra
7. His Girl
8. Origin Of Man
9. Scorpion
10. Deep In The Sand

RA Scion (Common Market) – Live & Learn [Link 2]

1. Prelude
2. Syrias Concern
3. Forward March
4. The Water
5. Devotion
6. Dichotemy
7. Heads Up
8. Speakin’ Without Breathin’
9. 64 Squares
10. Anointed
11. Non-Descript
12. The Twelve
13. Safe
14. Go Down
15. Want It To
16. Set The Stage
17. The Bio
18. Possessions (Re-Posessed)
19. Live & Learn

Moka Only and Atsushi Numata – Moka Only Vs Numata

1. Intro
2. Who knew
3. Kick mustard
4. No way
5. Knock em down
6. Push and pull
7. Slow it
8. Bad habit
9. Dont know
10. Ease up
11. Classic action
12. Cold outside
13. Reach back
14. Be Here

Article of the Week:

The Genius of Miles Davis: Explained
by Ransom Riggs