Subject: Thelonious Monk

• Scat's First Lady

  Anita O'Day gets her due in new boxed set

  September 2, 1999

• Straight Sambas

  Jazz pianist Danilo Perez mixes American and Latino traditions

  October 7, 1999

• Playbill

  Coming This Week

  November 4, 1999

• Chucho Valdés

  Overpowering the piano

  November 16, 2000

• Critic's Choice

  May 26, 1994

• Press Picks

  May 25, 1995

• Jazz Notes

  June 29, 1995

• Rotation

  February 20, 1997

• God's Own Player

  March 6, 1997

• Rotation

  April 17, 1997

• More Blues Than You Can Use

  September 24, 1998

• Out of Africa

  October 15, 1998

• Feeling at Ease

  November 19, 1998

• Jazz Piano Times Two

  December 3, 1998

• 'Bourne Again

  December 10, 1998

• Rotation

  December 17, 1998

• Hitting the Blue Notes

  February 4, 1999

• Randy Weston

  This notable jazz pianist is the musical third of The Blew Notes Trio

  June 12, 2008

• Turtle Island Quartet

  January 17, 2008

• Rotation

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

  July 6, 2000

• Andrew Hill

  Compulsion

  June 7, 2007

• Paradise by the Dashboard Light/Houston Music

  Racket again ventures downtown in search of musical serendipity

  March 29, 2007

• Not Like Monk

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

  January 4, 2007

• Hope Springs Eternal

  A northern suburb tops our third installment of rating greater Houston's taste in music

  August 10, 2006

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

  February 2, 2006

• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, with Drop Trio

  Thursday, December 1, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

  December 1, 2005

• Cut and Paste

  Beauty Shop is clipped straight from its predecessors

  March 31, 2005

• Go Weston

  A jazz great visits Houston

  September 4, 2003

• Drop Trio

  Big Dipper, Self-Released

  August 21, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  Our picks of the week

  February 13, 2003

• The Queen Bee

  Pam Kelly hopes to get a Buzz going about local music

  January 16, 2003

• The Artist's Life

  Tierney Malone turns a few of his favorite things into dramatic graphic images

  November 22, 2001

• Hard Bop

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

  January 25, 2001

• Against the Tide

  Pianist and former Houstonian Jason Moran refuses to flow with mainstream jazz

  October 19, 2000

• Young Lion

  Though only 17, Brandon Lee blows a mighty horn

  April 27, 2000

• Listen In

  March 16, 2000

• Local Rotation

  Local Music Reviewed

  December 9, 1999

• Space Truckin'

  Traveling with the Sun Ra Arkestra has its perks: cigarettes and coffee

  December 9, 1999

• Kamikaze Rap

  Public Enemy's Chuck D. speaks

  July 8, 1999

• Swing in Time

  OrchestraX salutes the 1920s and the music of Gershwin and Ellington

  May 13, 1999

• He's Ba-ack

  Burt Bacharach's swanky pop stylings return to hipness

  May 6, 1999

• Jazz la King

  Time and time again, Sonny Rollins proves his sax mastery

  March 25, 1999

• Earl of Blues

  May 21, 1998

• Shtick Figure

  In Barbara Kopple's documentary, Woody Allen plays Woody Allen

  April 30, 1998

• Night & Day

  April 16 - 22, 1998

  April 16, 1998

• No More Mush

  October 3, 1996