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From Miles Davis to the NYC Subway: The Forgotten Jazz Legend Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Danilo Parra (2025):

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre once shared the stage with the legendary Miles Davis, helping redefine the landscape of avant-garde jazz. Yet when I met him, he was playing in the subways of New York City, his music reverberating through the tunnels like a lost echo from jazz’s golden age. As the story unfolds, Kalaparusha pours his heart into his final album, inspired by a song dedicated to the love of his life, Antoinette.

This film captures his story, his voice, and his music—bridging past and present in a raw, intimate portrait of a true jazz innovator.

🔹 Who was Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre? A pioneering saxophonist and a key figure in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), McIntyre shaped the free jazz movement. Despite his legendary status, he spent his later years as a street musician, bringing jazz to the people in the most unexpected places.

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Director: Danilo Parra

The best tech ads of the last 35 years

“Last week the Association of Independent Commercial Producers announced the winners of its annual awards honoring the best moving image marketing of the year and Apple’s ‘Welcome Home’ ad took home the prize for Advertising Excellence in the single commercial category,” Sarah Wells writes for TechCrunch. “Directed by Spike Jonze, the person behind movies like Her and Being John…

Spike Jonze’s brilliant ad for Apple’s HomePod wins major advertising award

“Apple’s brilliantly creative HomePod ad, directed by Being John Malkovich helmer Spike Jonze, has won a top prize at the Association of Independent Commercial Producers Show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,” Luke Dormehl reports for Cult of Mac.

“The awards were handed out on Thursday night,” Dormehl reports. “Apple shared the ‘Advertising Excellence/Single Commercial…

This look inside Spike Jonze’s Apple HomePod ad is as fascinating as the film itself

“Apple’s short film ‘Welcome Home,’ directed by Spike Jonze and starring FKA twigs as a beleaguered city dweller whose drab apartment becomes a colorful, shape-shifting oasis thanks to her HomePod device, is easily one of 2018’s most captivating ads so far,” Tim Nudd writes for AdWeek.

“Now, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the film, which not only answers all of our questions about…

Mini play list for you all riffing of the song obsessions post. So, of course (again) This and this. Here are a couple of other songs that I was feeling when I wrote i stole lance armstrong’s bike:  Wild Horses – this is not the original, but I like her voice and that drifty, far-off quality is more like the mood of my play. Though, Rolling Stones, I mean, come on. This is a great song. Some…

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