Miles Davis

Q&A: Little Steven Van Zandt

Raiding the Houston Press's Photo Archives

Tomorrow Night: Tim Hagans at DiverseWorks

Miles Behind Her

Shirley Horn at the Wortham

Live Shots

Shirley Horn at the Wortham

Critic's Choice

Shirley Horn at the Wortham

Press Picks

Shirley Horn at the Wortham

Blowing His Own Horn

Shirley Horn at the Wortham

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 >>

Tough Customer

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 >>

Rotation

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 >>

Herbie Hancock Times Six

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 >>

Rotation

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 >>

Chick Corea & John McLaughlin

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 >>

Tino Ortega's Matagorda Island Discs

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 >>

Miles Davis

The Complete On the Corner Sessions

“Perspectives 157: Xaviera Simmons”

The CAMH gets funky

Rotation

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

Really Good Sax

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

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

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

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

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

Cordero: De Donde Eres

The Groove Collective

Burnin' for You

The Groove Collective

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 >>

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)

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

Straight, No Chaser

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

"Birth of the Cool"

Who knew being cool would be so hot?

Quincy Troupe

The Pursuit of Happyness co-writer drops by UHD

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 >>

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 >>

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 D ... 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 >>