Wortham Theater Center’s Grand Foyer The Scoop: DaCamera’s 2025 Fall Jazz Kickoff Party hit just the right improv notes as ...
One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...
Carolina – an Emerging Gem in the Pop-Jazz Scene. Carolina, a Portuguese-born pop-jazz singer, is emerging as a rare gem in ...
Inspired by Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai turned 70s soul and funk into a 90s acid-jazz revolution that reshaped modern music.
Internationally acclaimed clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen and her celebrated Quartetinho ensemble will provide an evening of jazz and vibrant world music Friday at 7:30 p.m. at t Theatre. Known ...
Musical education can have surprising starting points. Some discover Frédéric Chopin through “Looney Toons”; others stumble into bop through Japanese cartoons. As a kid in Japan, Noriko Ueda didn’t ...
The recording industry continues to reel from falling CD sales as music fans flock to low-cost streaming. But this is hardly the first disruptive technology to shake record companies to the core. In ...
One of the defining sound-worlds of the past half-century of recorded music is the distinguished repertory of ECM Records, which was founded by the Munich musician and producer Manfred Eicher, in 1969 ...
Roy Haynes, the pioneering jazz drummer who performed with legends like Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sarah Vaughan, died Tuesday at the age of 99. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Leslie ...
In his book, Jazz Modernism: From Ellington And Armstrong To Matissse And Joyce (Yale University Press 2004), author Alfred Appel depicts the numerous but easily overlooked parallels between jazz ...
The historic Tower Theatre at 1201 Westheimer has reopened as Doc’s Houston, a modern take on the golden-age supper club from ...