New music documentaries premiere this weekend

“The High Note,” “Laurel Canyon” are movie options to view at home.

Although “The High Note” is ostensibly about Grace Davis, the 11-time Grammy winner who can still fill arenas with singalongs from her catalog, the music-focused dramedy is really about dreams and ambitions.

The movie’s theatrical release was scrapped due to coronavirus but arrives today on video on demand, including Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, Apple TV and Xfinity.

Grace, as played by “Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross – who is herself musicspawn royalty as the daughter of Diana Ross – is glamorous, self-centered and often treats her beleaguered assistant, Maggie (Dakota Johnson), like most celebrities stereotypically treat their assistants.

But despite the musical history that keeps her career on cruise control, Grace is artistically stifled. She wants to release a new album, not acquiesce to her well-meaning manager Jack (portrayed by a slick Ice Cube) and accept a lucrative, but ungratifying, Las Vegas residency.

Her assistant Maggie, meanwhile, remains in Grace’s orbit to stoke her genuine ambition: to become a music producer. When Maggie meets David (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) in a Laurel Canyon grocery store through a music-centered conversation that two strangers would never have, she nonetheless has discovered a personal and professional mate.

Harrison, who portrays the earnest David, a musician who needs to find his creative soul, grew up in New Orleans surrounded by music, specifically, the legendary Marsalis family ( Jason Marsalis was one of