Roy Hargrove, The RH Factor

Record review

"...Dallas-bred trumpeter has released a successful string of straight-up, hard-bop LPs, he's also recorded with Erykah Badu and D'Angelo..."

June 9, 2006 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...able to blow chilled jazz as readily as enflamed post-bop. Classical training at age 8 has given this multiple..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Chick Corea

Gift guide

"...Corea props on disc 10's documentary, and the hard bop meets classical in "Quartet No. 2, Part 2" by..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by David Lynch

Tommy Dorsey

Gift guide

"...outstanding in the Thirties, but a precursor of the be-bop style. The first disc spotlights Dorsey as a soloist,..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story

Gift guide

"...rear. The second disc rocks and rolls through "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Back on the Chain Gang," and (yay!) Uncle Tupelo's..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Black

Record review

"...cell block too"), while "Appletree" has an unmistakable Beatles bop to it. The jazzy piano line on "Disrespecting Dirt"..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

The Horton Brothers

Record review

"...sympathetic talents to the Horton Brothers' brand of twangy bop. While not for everyone, Tempo for Two is sure..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

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

"...Whiskeytown and Radney Foster. – Jim Caligiuri The Ditty Bops11:45am, AMD stage..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Alex Coke's Iraqnophobia Reviewed

"...their characters through jazz. Taking cues from the hard bop of Sonny Rollins, the free jazz of Eric Dolphy,..."

July 22, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...Take-Off, a haphazard mix of candy pop and twee bop. Crewe leads the band through a strangely weighted set,..."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

The Gary Cooper Collection

Rarely did he singe the big screen with his craft, yet his dimpled impassivity was ready-made for audience personification

"...of the master's continental comedies dance like the horizontal bop. The Gary Cooper Collection counts four more films from..."

June 24, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 1: 59-61, The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 2: 1962

"..."Come to Me," his high voice cushioned by girlish shoo-bops and manly doo-wops, encapsulates the black vocal group/harmony era..."

May 27, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Thursday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...at their 2003 Sub Pop showcase with Oingo Boingo-esque boppers. They're major label debut, Elevator, on Warner Bros. is..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...his youth. With Alex Coke, he's Austin's Little Boy Bop. – Raoul HernandezTHE CUBAN COWBOYS9pm, Mambo Kings The self-proclaimed..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers

"...references to Maccabees and "Mary Magdaloo," where you'd expect wop-bop-a-loo-bops. "The Pony to Bet On" sounds like a Depression-era..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Grates

"...way across the stage in the spirit of high-energy, bop-happy fun, guitarist John Patterson holds it down with no-muss..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

Francophonic

Vive la France

"...and Groove Collective pay heed: Paris' noJazz mix hard bop with techno scratch to create danceable improv, and famed..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by David Lynch

Sweet Soul Music

"...will a disc as persuasive as the funkman's Luaka Bop debut reissue. Another 'Bama jamma – Little Eva unsheathes..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Lenny Bruce

Gift guide

"...It's fitting that this 6-CD, 71/2-hour, 80-page bop apocalypse should arrive when it does. Ten years have..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Miles Davis

Gift guide

"...the Cool through the mid-Fifties and his highly influential post-bop work with John Coltrane, Red Garland, and Philly Joe..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Chet Baker

Gift guide

"...mid-Fifties, it was as a fan of robust hard bop, musicians like Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown. The popular..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Who and Who

Texas Platters

"...most inspired Who covers anywhere, Lowery 66's seven-minute Lithium bop through "Eminence Front," rattle unconventionally enough to jolt Who..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

TCB

The politics of dancing, or at least politics and dancing

"...PS: "She Bop."..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Ron Flynt

Texas platters

"...serves as a time machine. "Hollywood Life" provides a bop-worthy portrait of the struggle for recognition, while "Mary's World"..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

Los Amigos Invisibles

Record review

"...(Luaka Bop) Wafting Venezuelan joie de vivre through the cosmopolitan labyrinth..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Pop Rocks

Making music in mecca for parents and children alike

"...Jovita's, trailed by his mother as he stops to bop randomly to the music. He shows off his bright..."

June 18, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Sheet Music

"...1940s brought the death of swing and birth of bop, even as the postwar rise of black harmony groups..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Cyndi Lauper

Liveshots

"...response. "All Through the Night"; a slow, French-themed "She Bop"; and a sock-rocking "Sisters of Avalon" provided the evening's..."

April 30, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

P2C04

"...of the denizens of "bonk" – an amalgam of bop and funk – inspiring you to dance to the..."

March 5, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Jazz Sides

"...Kenny Clarke the group had an early pioneer of bop, who played with control and authority. Percy Heath was..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

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