Jazz: By the Episode

"...Transition from swing to bop, featuring Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Jazz artists (and everyone else) endure another world..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Last Real Texas Blues Man

Doug Sahm drinks from the jazz wellspring

"...give me a gift. He arrived with a beautiful Charlie Parker T-shirt that he'd found in a Boston record..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Reissues

"...not have given the alto sax the shine that Charlie Parker would bring, but he did set a standard..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

How I Won the War Against Stress With A Little Help From Vinyl & Tequila

Giving praise before the altar of the turntable

"...sold for $40 at Sound Exchange on the Drag. Charlie Parker melted the alto sax, but Hodges poured the..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Tal Farlow

Jazz sides

"...use of substitute chords. Then he was fascinated by Charlie Christian playing hornlike lines with an electric guitar for..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in technology. That's really too bad. I wonder what Charlie Parker or Frank Zappa would be doing in the..."

May 2, 2003 Column

Grant Green

Box Set

"...his own. His relaxed fretwork recalls the legacy of Charlie Christian, and his boppish lines are reminiscent of Charlie..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Jazz's Generational Divide

The IAJE vision of jazz's future.

"...appeal to younger ears (i.e., Medeski, Martin & Wood, Charlie Hunter), will you still draw enough older listeners to..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...of immortals such as Robert Johnson, Son House, and Charlie Patton; the Forties with jump bluesmen Wynonie Harris and..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Central Avenue Sounds (Rhino)

Box Sets

"...airshot, while scattered throughout, there are recordings by out-of-towners Charlie Parker, Wardell Gray, and Howard McGhee. Longtime L.A. residents,..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

American Folklorist

Peter Keane, Not a Singer-Songwriter

"...Willie Johnson, Cannon's Jug Stompers with Doc Boggs, and Charlie Poole with John Hurt remains a powerful, disorienting experience...."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Feature by Brian Berger

Uncle Lucius, Norman BA$E, and More Holiday-Adjacent Live Shows

Crucial concerts for the week to keep you out and about

"...trickery. By the tail end of his career, the Charlie Parker-like innovator nodded to Austin’s own trumpeter Kenny Dorham..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

SXSW Film Review: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

The life and impact of the jazz drumming pioneer

"...Playing with titans such as Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk in his early..."

March 13, 2023 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The House That Built DJ Shani Hébert

Decades in the making, The Groove Temple arrives on KUTX

"...Creole music, maybe some house, Chaka Khan, and then Charlie Parker. We played whatever we wanted; the playlist was..."

March 3, 2023 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Arturo Sandoval Sounds His Horn

Cuban trumpet great on Eastwood, Gillespie, and God

"...that.” Then he played me a Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker record. Wow, that was it, man [laughs]. That..."

Jan. 24, 2019 Music Post by Jeremy Steinberger

Q&A: Henry Threadgill

Master improviser speaks on sustaining creativity

"...was in the forest when the tree fell. If Charlie Parker came out now and played what he played,..."

April 6, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Review: Person to Person

Ensemble slice-of-life comedy searches for the soul of New York City

"...of revenge porn, and a mystery involving a rare Charlie Parker record...."

March 11, 2017 SXSW Post by Michael Agresta

Everybody Has Some

In a round-robin interview, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Louis Black open up about their new films

"...it as his medicine. And when your hero is Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday –..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

15 Minutes with Elvis Costello

A few pages from an almost 700-page book – as told by the author

"...it was jazz, be-bop, and post-bop. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Of course I didn’t understand it. It sounds..."

Oct. 15, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Prez for Life & Beyond: Lester Young

Tenor sax king helped put Kansas City on the musical map

"...in Kansas City. It was there that he met Charlie Parker and became part of Basie’s band. At his..."

Aug. 27, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Playback: Meet the New Texas Music Czar

New Texas Music Office director, new Rock N Roll Rentals branch, and a new Foot Patrol fetish!

"...a six-panel mural with likenesses of Mance Lipscomb and Charlie Parker for a recent venue redesign...."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Sundance Review: 'Whiplash'

Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons beat it out in Sundance Opening Film

"...face of intimidation. He tells Andrew the story of Charlie Parker: The only reason he became a jazz great..."

Jan. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

SXSW: Nik Turner Spreads His Cosmic Wings

Hawkwind co-founder to re-enact the 'Space Ritual'

"...by Miles Davis. I grew up on Milestones and Charlie Parker and all these other people, and I thought..."

March 15, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Winter Reveries

No matter the season, no matter the climate, when I write I write in winter

"...kitchen, make instant coffee, put on Louis Armstrong or Charlie Parker or Charles Mingus, and begin the essay that..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

KD: A Jazz Biography

Austin jazz trumpet legend by the rhyme

"...before moving on to a prolific career playing with Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, and Andrew Hill, to name three..."

June 15, 2012 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

2010 Mix

One last look back in Geezerville

"...3) Anders Osborne, "On the Road to Charlie Parker," American Patchwork (Alligator)..."

Jan. 12, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

'A Guy Walks Into the United States Art Authority...'

Feral Cinema/Lenny Bruce

"...jazzman. His ideal was to walk out there like Charlie Parker, take that mike in his hand like a..."

July 15, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Aural History

Jeff Lofton, son of an Army drill instructor, sure doesn’t play trumpet like one – or does he?

"...Jeff's discovery of a Gene Ammons LP with earliest Charlie Parker convert/sideman trumpet Howard McGhee in the family stack..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...God! First, the boppers, you know? Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, this kind. And then I discovered another world,..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bare Necessities

Tenor titan Sonny Rollins still peeling bark

"...universes, Art Tatum through Ornette Coleman, records protean blowers Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins, but only the..."

May 1, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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