Bebop

Jazz 101

Jazz Warrior

Malcolm Pinson fights for bebop values

Straight Sambas

Jazz pianist Danilo Perez mixes American and Latino traditions

Playbill

Coming This Week

A Century of Progress

Guitarist Huey Long is from all the eras

Rotation

Guitarist Huey Long is from all the eras

Critic's Choice

Guitarist Huey Long is from all the eras

Classic Rock Corner: Kind of Blue is 50

According to a recent appreciation in Newsweek, if an American household has just one jazz record on the shelf, chances are it's Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. And we were thinking it was Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Kind of Blue contains only five trac ... More >>

Baby, It's Him

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Rotation

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Out of Africa

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Change Is Good

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

32 Jazz: Where To Start

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Herbie Hancock Times Six

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Hitting the Blue Notes

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

McCoy Tyner Trio

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Turtle Island Quartet

Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

Andrew Hill

Compulsion

Not Like Monk

Chris Botti on selling -- and not selling -- jazz

Hand It to Herbie

Houston's jazz-piano cats salute a giant in their field

Finding Her Voice

Onetime Texan Heather Bennett roams freely in the Big Apple

Hard Bop

Jazz legend Rick Porter has beaten more than his drum kit. He's also beaten addiction.

Fire Breather with a Sax

Carlos Garnett decides to chill down here after almost 40 years in New York City

Boogie Nights

The Groove Collective

Local Rotation

Local Music Reviewed

...Newman!

With a sound as fat as Texas, David "Fathead" Newman returns home

He's Ba-ack

Burt Bacharach's swanky pop stylings return to hipness

Jazz la King

Time and time again, Sonny Rollins proves his sax mastery

Rock Death in l993

How cool are you when you're dead? Here's the ultimate sick scorecard of musical hipness.

Get Lit: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley

​Though his stature as an icon of jazz is secure today, for much of his actual performing life, pianist/composer Thelonious Monk was not always so well-received by jazz critics or general fans. His personal eccentricities - the hats, the dancing, the attacking piano keys - and odd/unprofessional b ... More >>

Straight, No Chaser

The most underground music in Houston right now isn't rap or indie rock...it's jazz.

"Rape Gaze": Worst Genre Name Ever? Not Quite...

myspace.com/wearecreep​Let's take a moment to think about labels and what they mean to us. Why do people feel the need to label things? The obvious answer is: It's the only way we know what stuff is. To anyone who automatically dismisses the very idea of labeling, just imagine what it would b ... More >>

Poncho Sanchez on Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie: Cubano Be! Cubano Bop!

Photo by Devin DeHaven​ Latin jazz bandleader and congero Poncho Sanchez spent lots of time as a kid watching his older sisters dance the mambo and cha-cha-cha to their Cal Tjader, Tito Puente and Machito records. While they danced, Sanchez read the album covers and listened. Now, with some ... More >>

Before We Cared: 10 Bit Players Who Became Superstars

"Whole Lotta Love" it wasn't.​On this day in 1965, British songstress Petula Clark reached number one on the charts with "Downtown," a pop classic with an unforgettable hook that has become a mainstay of oldies radio, film soundtracks and TV advertisements in the years since. The song even se ... More >>