Miles Davis

Jazz Great Bill Evans Working at University of Houston Residency

Bill Evans, the saxophonist who worked with Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the '80s and has explored the intersection of jazz and hip-hop on solo albums like Escape, will be working with University of Houston jazz students all week and perform with them at a concert next Tuesday, the un ... More >>

Miles Runs the Voodoo Down on New "Bootleg Series"

Fans of jazz giant Miles Davis were overjoyed in 2011 to hear that Columbia/Legacy had tapped the artist as the next subject of their Bootleg Series, offering rare live recordings of performances only available previously as, well... bootlegs, if at all. Though of course, these "official" releases c ... More >>

Readers' Poll: Does Music In The Workplace Make You More Productive?

A recent blog on the Bloomberg Businessweek site detailed a UK study that was done dealing with music in the workplace and its effect on worker productivity. 77 percent of surveyed businesses said that it boosted morale and made output soar. The rest of the 33 percent probably own sweatshops. Now I ... More >>

Bob Dorough: Jazzman Reflects on Miles Davis, "Devil May Care" & More

Bob Dorough is the kind of musician who when he's performing in the area, someone makes sure to call the local newspaper and tell them about it. In this case the man who made the phone call was Houston jazz producer Joe Peine. (Thanks, Joe.) Perhaps best-known for the insouciant jazz standard "Devi ... More >>

30 Seconds With The Boxing Lesson

Progressive psychedelia is an acquired taste... acquired by being awesome that is. Austin's own Boxing Lesson may be one of the best modern practitioners around. If the Legendary Pink Dots teamed with the Cult you might get somewhere near the throbbing frontal lobe fuck of their work. Seriously, "He ... More >>

The Roots Of Lionize: From Miles Davis To Led Zeppelin

It's hard to find a band that reps Miles Davis in the same breath as much as they do Led Zeppelin, but Lionize are that band. Recording in Jamaica with Steel Pulse's Sidney Mills, supporting beardos like Kylesa, Clutch, and cKy? Yes, that's Lionize for you. Opening for Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster ... More >>

Before We Cared: 10 Bit Players Who Became Superstars

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 served as a plot point in an episode o ... More >>

KMAG, These Are Our Favorite Four-Letter Bands

AC/DC: The Only Four-Letter Band That Matters​The other day while we were tooling around with a collection of music we had inherited from some family members that had passed away, we realized that of all the compact discs that we had in the box, the Miles Davis, the Ravi Shankar box set, the T ... More >>

Songs About Houses, Castles, Mansions, Shacks, And Apartments (And Yurts)

​In Rocks Off's seemingly never-ending quest to live alone, we have been looking at Craigslist listings (so, that's where you got the idea for that blog!), getting help from a realtor friend, and driving aimlessly around the neighborhoods surrounding our office. We have even thought of buying ... More >>

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

20 Musician Biopics Currently In Development Hell

Happy birthday, Janis.​News came down last week that Sacha Baron Cohen will be stepping into the rhinestones and glitter as Queen icon Freddie Mercury. It's been a long time coming for Cohen, the Borat and Bruno star who is slowly becoming his generation's Peter Sellers and has been rumored to ... More >>

Last Night: Gaslight Anthem At Warehouse Live

Photos by Jason Wolter​Gaslight Anthem Warehouse Live October 7, 2010 Quite a great deal of press - too much, really - has been given to the similarities between New Jersey's Gaslight Anthem and that other guy from the Garden State - Jon Bon J... er, Bruce Springsteen. Both Springsteen and GA ... More >>

Quincy Troupe

The Pursuit of Happyness co-writer drops by UHD

Straight, No Chaser

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

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)

Louis Malle's French new wave classic paid homage to Hollywood noir

A Chat With Chef John Watt

Tulsa-bred Chef John Watt has long toiled in the kitchens of Houston. He helped found Trevisio (6550 Bertner Street) and Prego (2520 Amherst), both recipients of Wine Enthusiast accolades, among many other culinary plaudits. Trevisio was named one of 2002's best new restaurants by My Table Maga ... More >>

Cordero: De Donde Eres

Chick Corea & John McLaughlin

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 >>

Tomorrow Night: Tim Hagans at DiverseWorks

Tino Ortega's Matagorda Island Discs

Raiding the Houston Press's Photo Archives

Q&A: Little Steven Van Zandt

Miles Davis

The Complete On the Corner Sessions

“Perspectives 157: Xaviera Simmons”

The CAMH gets funky

Blues Dancing at the Big Easy

Dropping in on Luther and the Healers

Nomeansno

All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt

Maynard Ferguson and His Big Bop Nouveau Band

Saturday, February 25, Conroe High School, 3200 West Davis, 936-538-7613

When Wild Musicians Attack!

Ryan Adams is headed this way. Where does he fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

Hand It to Herbie

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

Local Rotation

Music Awards Survey

A rundown of every act on this year's bill

All for One

A pair of ace session men join up and call forth the Soul of John Black

Miles to Go

Renowned saxman Joe Lovano blows into town

I Want My Old-School Hip-hop

How come there's no Pharcyde or De La Soul on the dial?

Kenny Garrett

No one told him jazz is dead

Various Artists

Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music (Columbia Legacy)

Fire Breather with a Sax

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

Don't Hate Me Because I'm Popular

Spyro Gyra keeps making the best friendly jazz

Rotation

Miles Davis and John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Records 1955-1961

Young Lion

Though only 17, Brandon Lee blows a mighty horn

Key Ingredient

Pianist Ahmad Jamal may have had a bigger impact on jazz than you think

Boogie Nights

The Groove Collective

Miles Behind Her

Shirley Horn at the Wortham

Rotation

Herbie Hancock Times Six

Rotation

Tough Customer

Press Picks

Critic's Choice