Kanye West … ‘I try to compete against the past’. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Rex Features Kanye West’s comeback media blitz continues apace, with the rapper announcing an album that aspires to the standard of James Cameron’s Avatar. West staged an impromptu video chat from his hotel room in Korea, showing off new clothes, new music and, [...]

Supreme lovely … John Coltrane channels the divine through his sax. Photograph: Redferns Miles Davis was a good authority on the saxophonist John Coltrane, who played in one of the trumpeter’s bands in the 1950s. Their time spent working together began with Davis’s rise to stardom and ended not long after the magnificent Kind of [...]

Battle star: MIA, as depicted by unique wedding snapper Ravi Thiagaraja Photograph: Ravi Thiagaraja “Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam (born 18 July 1975), better known by her stage name MIA, is a Sri Lankan/British songwriter, record producer, singer, rapper, fashion designer, visual artist, and political activist.” And right now, perched on a sofa at the XL Records [...]

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