Postmarks

Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...Jazz's Generational Divide..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

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

Crucial concerts for the week to keep you out and about

"...Friday 20, Monks Jazz..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Papa's Brand-New Bag

Jazzers and jam bands alike just wanna funk, Austin style

"...McGarrigle traveled to London, where he discovered the burgeoning acid-jazz scene. As a teenager, he moved to Washington, D.C.,..."

July 27, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet

"...& roll hippie, country outlaw, R&B hepcat, Tex-Mex pollinator, jazz linguist, Sahm (1941-1999) lives forever as the Johnny Appleseed..."

April 15, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...8pm, Continental Club Born and raised in Austin, fiddle/viola/mandolinist Amy Farris has..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Straight, No Chaser

Brannen Temple, aspiring to be Austin's Max Roach

"...Roach as both a drummer and bandleader. Like the jazz legend, Temple is smart, confident, and motivated. A tireless..."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Cubana Be Cubana Bop

Field guide to Cuba's second-biggest export after cigars

"...popularity of Wim Wenders' 1999 movie Buena Vista Social Club, there's been quite a bit of recent international interest..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Composer's Roots

A look at the career of a premier jazz pianist, Dallas-born Cedar Walton

"...and you come away wondering if the 65-year-old, Dallas-born jazzman has played so well for so long that he's..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Off the Record

OTR goes country with Mike & the Moonpies and Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas

"...band Asleep at the Wheel. After the barbed country jazz of "Still Is Still Moving to Me," Willie Nelson..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Playback: Smiling Your Way to Heaven

Supernatural advice by West Texas sage Tommy Hancock, tears from Billy Gibbons, and Casual Strangers coupling

"...working himself up to ownership of Lubbock's famed Cotton Club. There he served as house bandleader while impacting West..."

July 18, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Bitten by the Bug

Trumpet Phenom Roy Hargrove

"...the State Theater, as part of the Clarksville-West End Jazz and Arts Festival...."

June 6, 1997 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...Fantastic Fest 2009 guest of honor Jess Franco, the jazziest, most lushly femme-centric director of outré and deliriously sexualized..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Bush League lambasting, locally-grown concerns, and a side of jazz.

"...thanks to Harvey Pekar for his article on avant-garde jazz innovators ["The Innovators," June 15]. I'm sorry if I..."

June 22, 2001 Column

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...the early half of last century, covering everything from jazzed-up cabaret-style numbers to Southern folk hymns. – Audra Schroeder..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...guitarists wielding their instruments like slave-ship whips, an exceptional jazz drummer, the Stones are why VH1's Behind the Music..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...could say Vietnam, DL was at his Uncle Manny's club in the Village, Cafe Wha?, witnessing -- firsthand --..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Music Recommended

Shawn Colvin, Timbuk 3

"...with Jay Trachtenberg, I invariably find myself asking the jazz maestro and longtime Chronicle writer "who's that?" The answer..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Music Feature

Redd Light Special

One right fine Tele-pickin' dude

"...technical backflips. At times, it's almost as if Charlie Parker somehow switched from sax to country guitar...."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Boz Scaggs Doesn't Mean to Be Argumentative

The Texan parses blues, R&B, and rock & roll ahead of two Austin shows

"..."I've done a couple of jazz standards records [2003's But Beautiful and 2008's Speak Low,"..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...Director: Leah Shore Shot exclusively in a secret sex club in New York City, a drug-induced couple unleash upon..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...out honors to local theatre artists in the Continental Club, and the next, a couple of decades have zoomed..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Right Off The Dial

"...a tough year for everyone." Major labels, indie labels, clubs, radio stations, seems no one's getting off the hook..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Music Column

Saturday Sleepers

"...London-based Bibb sings blues that occupy the seam between jazz and gospel. Bibb has just released the uplifting new..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...pioneer Joan Baez (Joan Baez I Am A Noise), jazz legend Max Roach (Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes),..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...WOODWORK: Self-described as a jazz-influenced "acoustic soul" band, Austin's Woodwork puts a new twist..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...when he says "Bounce Yo Ass," this experienced local club security man is 86ing playa haters, not issuing a..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Get It While You Can

"...to the Clash, from Keith Moon to the Gun Club to the Rolling Stones, "get it while you can"..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...still dominated, the blues crying from Clifford Antone's eponymous club excited him more. The Fabulous Thunderbirds were the house..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...ears in the front or hang back from the club's top level and let this lineup remind you of..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...– modern leads of integrating psych rock with R&B. Jazz drumming and Galloway's own cushioned keyboards hit the mark..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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