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Miles Davis

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    February 20, 2012

    Support Staff: 10 Of Pop History's Greatest Backing Bands

    Being behind the scenes is what most musicians who don't write songs or sing expect of their lives once they start seriously playing. A career backing someone up can be extremely rewarding, particularly if you are part of a transcendent group of musicians that goes from simply backing up an artist i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Tracy Nelson, Victim Of The Blues, Embraces Muddy & Lightnin'

    Robert Hakins​Long acclaimed as one of the truly great singers of the modern era, at 66 Tracy Nelson still has the fire for performing great songs. Her latest project, Victim of the Blues, is a loving caress to her original passion: Old-school blues, particularly the Chicago variety. Nelson's ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Geri Allen

    Robert Hakins​Long acclaimed as one of the truly great singers of the modern era, at 66 Tracy Nelson still has the fire for performing great songs. Her latest project, Victim of the Blues, is a loving caress to her original passion: Old-school blues, particularly the Chicago variety. Nelson's ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2011

    Facebook v. Leaky Boob

    Houston mom in a FB face-off.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Top 10 Double Albums That Should Have Stayed Single

    ​Not all double albums should have been double albums, just as some albums had to be double albums in order for their point to be made. Each case is different with each band or artist. The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia had to be double albums to tell their stories of teenage wastelands and po ... More >>

  • Music

    November 11, 2010

    Queen Bee

    Upper Kirby's got a brand-new bag.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2010

    Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 2

    Brittanie Shey: When you go to a festival lit this, you're always looking for the discovery. The one band that either blows you away or causes you to alter all your expectations. Today it was Dan Black, a performer we caught only because there was nothing else going on. As soon as we get home, we' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    The Top 10 Music-Video Riots

    From Agnostic Front's "Riot, Riot Upstart"​Just like the Stones said, "Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy." Only the best social insurrections and riots happen in the heat of the summer. It makes us wonder why Houston hasn't had more angry, heat-stoked street ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Mother Earth Says, "Ha!"

    Photo by Yuri Shkoda Want proof of the butterfly effect? Okay, a volcano in Iceland erupts and half-way around the world, Houston arts organizations have to scramble.   Two highly anticipated concerts were forced to change their line-ups and one theatrical piece was rescheduled - tw ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 11, 2010

    The Art of Cool

    The CAMH features a fascinating, talented and not easily categorized artist.

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    The Top Rock-Star Death Conspiracies: Elvis, Michael, Kurt, Tupac and More

    It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Get Lit: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life By Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey Ward

    ​In addition to his long career as one of modern jazz's finest trumpet blowers and composers, Wynton Marsalis has waged a sort of one-man PR campaign for jazz education. He extols the virtues of the music as a current and lively art with a rich history - as opposed to a genre whose best days and p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Levon Helm Is 69... and Badass

    Rocks Off is having a little trouble looking his "2009 Year of the Rhino" wall calendar in the eye this morning. He trusted it implicitly until Tuesday, when a friend pointed out that in saluting Stevie Nicks, Miles Davis and Hank Williams Jr. on their birthday, he left out former Band drummer Levo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Blue Notes: Return to Forever's Return to Forever Returns

    Return to Forever Return to Forever Returns www.return2forever.comAh, jazz fusion, what a conundrum of musical styles. Too heavily instrumental and dexterous for rock fans, too spacey and electric guitar-based for jazzbos, it has a small but dedicated following all weaned on Miles Davis' Bitches Bre ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 11, 2008

    Quincy Troupe

    Miles Davis’s co-autobiographer is also a renowned poet

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2008

    Artful Thursday: Porgy and Bess

    The Houston Ebony Opera explains its controversial pick

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Be of Good (Blue) Cheer

    The Houston Ebony Opera explains its controversial pick

  • Music

    March 6, 2008
  • Music

    January 17, 2008
  • Calendar

    November 29, 2007

    The Cool School

    Documentary film looks at the beginnings of L.A.’s art scene

  • Calendar

    August 16, 2007

    “Women in Jazz”

    Houston pays homage to “The Divine One”

  • Music

    July 5, 2007

    Another Bump

    Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame

  • Music

    June 28, 2007

    Betty Davis

    Once too hot to handle, Betty Davis's freaky funk is ripe for rediscovery

  • Music

    June 14, 2007

    Lost Albums

    CDs that deserve another listen

  • Music

    October 26, 2006

    A Whole Other Magic

    Dianne Reeves's good luck story

  • Music

    August 3, 2006

    Gil Evans

    The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions

  • Music

    January 5, 2006

    Ennio Morricone

    Crime and Dissonance

  • Music

    December 23, 2004
  • Calendar

    October 14, 2004

    Village Voices

    Irving Penn's iconic, never-before-seen photos of Africa make an exclusive stop at the MFAH

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Letters

    Irving Penn's iconic, never-before-seen photos of Africa make an exclusive stop at the MFAH

  • Music

    April 8, 2004

    A Century of Progress

    Guitarist Huey Long is from all the eras

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2004

    Salad Barre

    A buffet of dance troupes comes to town

  • Music

    September 25, 2003

    Remember Shakti

    Sunday, September 28

  • Music

    January 24, 2002

    Money Mark

    Change Is Coming (Emperor Norton Records)

  • Music

    December 13, 2001

    Freeloader

    Saturday, December 15

  • Music

    November 29, 2001

    The Rebirth Brass Band

    Saturday, December 1

  • Music

    May 6, 1999

    He's Ba-ack

    Burt Bacharach's swanky pop stylings return to hipness

  • Calendar

    February 25, 1999

    Night & Day

    February 25 - March 3, 1999

  • Music

    February 4, 1999

    Hitting the Blue Notes

    February 25 - March 3, 1999

  • Music

    December 24, 1998

    Herbie's World

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Music

    November 26, 1998

    32 Jazz: Where To Start

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Music

    November 19, 1998

    Feeling at Ease

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Music

    September 17, 1998

    Purveyors of Perk

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Calendar

    February 12, 1998

    Press Picks

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Music

    January 8, 1998

    Baby, It's Him

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

  • Music

    January 16, 1997

    Lee Way

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

  • Music

    January 9, 1997

    Jazz It Up

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

  • Music

    December 1, 1994

    Live Shots

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

  • Music

    March 24, 1994

    Live Shots

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

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