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Terence Blanchard

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Mo' Better Tunes: The Ultimate Spike Lee Soundtrack

    ​When Spike Lee puts out a new film, I always make a point to check it out, even if I hated his last one. He's directed more hits than misses, and even his duds have been quality duds. The first Spike Lee joint that I saw as a kid was Malcolm X, which I definitely did not understand at all beyond ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2011

    Poncho Sanchez and Terence Blanchard: 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Top 10 Louisiana Bands Of All Time

    ​Pardon the geographical pun, but besides Texas, our neighbor to the east may be the most musical state in these United States. And in terms of per capita, Louisiana, which ranks 25th in population to Texas' second, is probably second to none. Outside Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, the program m ... More >>

  • Music

    January 21, 2010

    Straight, No Chaser

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

  • Music

    October 8, 2009

    Double Vision

    Equally gifted in jazz and R&B, area native Robert Glasper moonlights in Maxwell's touring band.

  • Music

    August 6, 2009

    Summer Stock

    Equally gifted in jazz and R&B, area native Robert Glasper moonlights in Maxwell's touring band.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Houston Film Critics Announce Their Awards; Best Picture Goes To A Movie You Can't See In Houston Yet

    The Houston Film Critics Society, of which yours truly is a member (along with the those two guys that used to work for the Chronicle, among others), just released their 2008 award winners. I'm already drafting a strong letter of protest haranguing my fellow HFCS members for failing to acknowledge ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

    Spike Lee’s look at Hurricane Katrina might be his most important work yet

  • Film

    September 16, 2004

    I Hate It

    This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous and graceless diatribe

  • Film

    January 9, 2003

    Ground Zero Hour

    A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's moving meditation on 9/11

  • Music

    September 7, 2000

    Pepper Shakers

    Los Hombres Calientes take jazz into booty-shaking territory

  • Calendar

    May 4, 2000

    For Swingers Only

    Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

  • Music

    April 27, 2000

    Young Lion

    Though only 17, Brandon Lee blows a mighty horn

  • News

    July 29, 1999

    1999 Houston Press Music Award Winners

    Though only 17, Brandon Lee blows a mighty horn

  • Dining

    March 18, 1999

    See. Be Seen. Don't Eat.

    As a jazz club, Sambuca is so-so. As a restaurant don't ask.

  • Music

    March 11, 1999

    Jazz 101

    As a jazz club, Sambuca is so-so. As a restaurant don't ask.

  • Music

    March 6, 1997

    God's Own Player

    As a jazz club, Sambuca is so-so. As a restaurant don't ask.

  • Music

    February 6, 1997

    A Feel for the Real

    As a jazz club, Sambuca is so-so. As a restaurant don't ask.

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