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Steve Jansen

Steve Jansen is a contributing writer for the Houston Press.

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Patty Waters Sings Again, Scheduled to Make Her Texas Debut

By Steve Jansen
Apr 4, 2018

Patty Waters’s back catalog isn’t all that impressive when viewed in a perfunctory manner. Two records, entitled Sings and College Tour, in the 1960s for the ESP-Disk label. Then absolutely nothing for basically 30 years. But she’s a legend. One of the greatest in jazz and free-jazz history. And not...
They, Who Sound Experimental Music Returns, and Now It's at Lawndale

By Steve Jansen
Jan 23, 2018

When Nameless Sound founding director David Dove informally put together the first version of They, Who Sound in 2008, he wasn’t expecting a whole lot. Neither, apparently, was the to-remain-unnamed Midtown bar who hosted the weekly concert series. On the Sunday afternoon of the third show, Dove and his friends...
Most Overrated and Underrated New Year’s Resolutions

By Steve Jansen
Dec 28, 2017

Want to lose weight? Spend more time with a nose in books and less time poking around online? Become a so-called happy person? Then the only way to accomplish these things is to make a declaration on January 1 to become a better, more fit, healthier, radiant person. Not January...
That Time A Texas Bar Owner Shoved Me Over an Amp Because He Didn’t Like My Music

By Steve Jansen
Nov 15, 2017

Music-venue staff has threatened to pull the plug on me and have told me “not to bother” on playing a second set. That’s nothing. But in all of these years of playing shows, the owner of a bar-venue had never physically attacked me onstage during what was basically the sound...
Dream Machine 2017 Cooks Up an All-Night Art Rager

By Steve Jansen
Aug 16, 2017

"Wild attire" is encouraged.

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