Subject: Arnett Cobb

• The Houston 100: From Scarface to Robert Earl Keen

  September 26, 2007

• Houston Honker

  Grady Gaines helped Little Richard create rock and roll. And he's not finished yet

  August 5, 1999

• Jazz Warrior

  Malcolm Pinson fights for bebop values

  September 30, 1999

• A Hard Case of the Blues

  April 28, 1994

• Goodbye to Lanny Steele

  November 3, 1994

• Static

  September 12, 1996

• What's Wrong With Wheatley?

  April 17, 1997

• Static

  October 23, 1997

• The Nickel: A Musical History of the Fifth Ward, Part 3

  [Note: Part 1 of The Nickel is here, and Part 2 is here.] Almost as forgotten as Hersal Thomas, Goree Carter was a Fifth Ward guitarist who was credited by late New York Times pop critic Robert Palmer with being the creator of the very first rock and roll record. This was his obscure 1949 single "Rock Awhile," of which Palmer wrote: "The clarion guitar intro differs hardly at all from some of the intros Chuck Berry would unleash on his own records after 1955; the guitar solo crac

  February 19, 2009

• 1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

  June 11, 1998

• Houston's Jazz History

  September 4, 2008

• Swing Time

  Shelly Berg learned jazz the hard way: He listened to the greats

  September 28, 2000

• This Is Our Home, It Is Not for Sale

  Documentary follows the transformation of historical Houston neighborhood

  April 10, 2008

• The Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Scene!

  Ideas toward a Houston-style musical Day of the Dead

  October 25, 2007

• Save Our Houston Songs

  A plea for monuments and musical preservation

  October 4, 2007

• Texas Tenors Times Two

  The Trinity Jazz Festival

  January 25, 2007

• Everlasting Sounds

  Ten of the year's most timeless records

  December 14, 2006

• Pop Quiz

  Think you know local music? Take the Bayou City Music Mindbender and find out.

  June 10, 2004

• Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

  Roy Ames, child pornographer and record producer, dies at 66

  August 28, 2003

• Cindy Scott

  Major to Minor (Self-released)

  March 6, 2003

• Wham, Bam, Thank You MAMH

  The proposed Museum of American Music History could be the solution to our "image problem"

  February 13, 2003

• The Queen Bee

  Pam Kelly hopes to get a Buzz going about local music

  January 16, 2003

• The Nickel Burger

  How is a falling-apart Fifth Ward joint turning out the best burgers in town? Adrian's has history.

  October 31, 2002

• Don Wilkerson

  The Complete Blue Note Sessions (Blue Note)

  July 26, 2001

• Heart Attack

  The source of Billy Harper's aggressive tenor style lies in a power greater than himself

  March 8, 2001

• Not Your Standard Issue

  Architects design one-of-a-kind houses for the Fifth Ward, trying to prove that even lower-end houses don't have to be a cookie-cutter box

  November 9, 2000

• Bebopping Along

  Former jazz guitar prodigy Scott Hardy finds he's also in tune with the acoustic bass

  September 21, 2000

• Downbeat

  Former drummer Ben "Scatman" Turner dies, and the heart of the jazz community skips a beat

  June 15, 2000

• Preservation Hall

  Project Row Houses will revive Houston's first home of black music

  December 16, 1999

• Local Rotation

  Local Music Reviewed

  December 9, 1999

• God Awful

  March 25, 1999

• Pop Moment

  January 26, 1995

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

  The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, no one area musician sounded more like Southeast Texas. That he spent his life moving all over the area, on both sides of the Sabine, only serves as evidence in favor of one of our geographical hypothe

  August 18, 2009