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Jimmy Smith
Gift guide
"...There were jazz organists before Jimmy Smith – Fats Waller, Count Basie,..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Joni's Jazz
"...Not that I set out to be a jazzer or that I am a jazzer. Most of my..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

ACL Review: Jazz Cartier
Loose cannon rap punk could be the anti-Drake
"...Self-anointed “Prince of the City,” Jazz Cartier made a worthy contender for Drake’s hip-hop throne..."

Oct. 2, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Twice That Jazz
Double the mayhem, double the heat when Austin Playhouse and Georgetown Palace both stage Chicago
"...Broadway revival of all time. Kander & Ebb, "All That Jazz," "Razzle Dazzle," .... Can't get enough. Seriously, we have all..."

May 29, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Miles Davis
Gift guide
"...Rivers, who at the time was heavily into free jazz. Rivers, although he performs competently on a live album..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Appreciates Trachtenberg's Jazz Reviews
"...his informed and intelligent sense of perspective. If the jazz purists had a fraction of the senses of adventure..."

April 6, 2004 Postmarks

Misses Real Jazz
"...not cut it for me either. I miss real jazz, world music, modern and old classical music, Native American..."

Nov. 3, 2003 Postmarks

Austin Jazz & Arts Festival Schedule
"...Main Stage: Reconstruction Brass Band (11am-noon); Austin Jazz Band (noon-1pm); Jazzaholics (1-2pm); Concerto Grosso (2-3pm); Elias Haslanger..."

June 12, 1998 Music Feature

Jazz Sides
Gift guide

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature

Yo Ho Ho and All That Jazz

Dec. 11, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Better Than Nothing
Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.
"...Ken Burns' objectives for his 10-segment, 19-hour PBS series Jazz, which began airing locally on KLRU (channel 18, cable..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Innovators
Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar
"...place regarding the merits of Ken Burns' PBS miniseries Jazz, it was pointed out that the filmmaker all but..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

and a girl singing with a flower in her hair maybe
Shooting more breeze with jazz storm Sonny Rollins in advance of his Bass Concert Hall stand on Sunday.
"...May 3, 7pm, at the Bass Concert Hall when jazz colossus Sonny Rollins strides onstage with his saxophone. If..."

April 30, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Tools of the Trade
Southwest Texas State's Jazz Program
"...critics, and musicians seem to agree on is that jazz is an art form indigenous to America. It was..."

June 13, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Slouching Towards Gomorrah
At the Intersection of Jazz and Lounge
"...illustration by Nathan Jensen..."

June 6, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Education of a Lifetime
A look at UT's Performing Arts Center and the process by which they bring the biggest names in jazz to Austin.
"...Wynton Marsalis, trumpet player, bandleader of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and arguably one of the most influential young..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Inexpressible
Ferreting out the local avant-garde jazz scene
"...When jazz music is freed from the constraints of harmonic structure..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Ecstatic Improvisation
St. Cecilia's Jazz Festival
"...Jazz and blues, folk, country and bluegrass - all of..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Complete Jake Langley
Guitarist makes dazzling choices and then some
"...he’s impressed huge swaths of the local music scene. Jazz heads upstairs at the Continental Club for Church on..."

March 28, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

The Pilgrim and the Stars
Q&A with Italian trumpet standard Enrico Rava at the Montréal Jazz Festival
"...Intimacy defines jazz. Cinematic images of a horn player in a dark..."

July 10, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM
The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty
"...I'd been wondering why I don't write more about jazz, what with how closely jazz and writing are linked..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The Blue Noise Band
Austin neo-jazzsters the Blue Noise Band
"...the local instrumental quartet has its structural foundation in jazz, their goof-laden, quick-change musical character lands them squarely in..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Cubanisimo!
Ray Barretto and the Roots of Afro-Cuban Jazz
"...center of it. As a lifelong purveyor of Afro-Cuban jazz, Barretto has been a pivotal figure in the fusion..."

June 12, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Sweet and Lowdown
"...this engaging, embraceable tale of one man's romance with jazz and women will at long last snuff all the..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Dingo
"...Awards (and nominated for Best Film), Dingo is a jazz-infused tale set in what seems the most unlikely of..."

May 22, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
A documentary fitting for the groundbreaking jazz drummer
"...Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes celebrates the groundbreaking jazz drummer’s career. Co-directed by Samuel Pollard and Ben Shapiro,..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Rancho Alegre Conjunto Music Fest, Borzoi, International Jazz Day, Ladyfang, Juan Wauters, and more
"...a Horse.  – Kevin Curtin Passing by Borzoi International Jazz DayLong Center, Saturday 30..."

April 29, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
History of the avant-garde jazz pioneers is surprisingly lacking in innovation
"...while the film will be of acute interest to jazz fans, the film offers up an object lesson in..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle stars in and directs this unusual Miles Davis biopic
"...Ahead is a fitting tribute to the legend of jazz innovator Miles Davis. The film is not a biopic..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Real Texas Blues Man
Doug Sahm drinks from the jazz wellspring
"...most of us that Doug Sahm was a devoted jazz fan, but his passionate embrace of all Texas music..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

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