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Ten Jazz Albums to Listen to Before You Die

Ten Jazz Albums to Listen to Before You Die

Because there are multiple decades of jazz, it's almost impossible to pick the top 10 albums of all time; the hip cats with their canes and cool shades will throw their used saxophone reeds in my direction and call me a young whippersnapper. The debate is so polemic that I might as well write about ... More >>

The Lorax and IHOP Get Together to Completely Undermine the Movie's Message

You've likely noticed a vexing pattern in a particular genre of movies lately. The plots always suggest post-apocalyptic worlds where greed and gluttony have trumped Mother Nature. The culprit of these films is mankind's self-indulgence and detached ignorance. And while technology and fabrication ar ... More >>

The Ten Best Songs Clear Channel "Banned" In The Days Following The September 11 Attacks

Courtesy of our sister paper up in New York.​Ten years ago today, three days after the September 11 attacks, Clear Channel sent out a mass email to its over 1,000 affiliate stations. The email included a list of songs with lyrics and/or titles that Clear Channel considered questionable in the wake ... More >>

For Your Thursday Listening Pleasure: 1917's "Dallas Blues," From the Library of Congress

​So. Funny thing. A couple of weeks back, while writing about 508 Park Ave. and Robert Johnson's 100th, I pulled down a few blues histories-of to dig a little deeper. Among the stacks: Elijah Wald's essential Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, published in 2004, whe ... More >>

Wired into New Orleans

David Simon’s new HBO series uses fiction to honor The Crescent City’s surreal, heart-breaking reality

Dallas Radio and Jingle Pioneer Tom Merriman Died Early This Morning

​Only a few days ago, Tom Merriman was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame -- the great Ron Chapman's introduction of the local-radio icon can be heard here. Says Chapman of Gordon McLendon's former music director, who came to Dallas in 1952, Merriman "shaped the sound of thousands of telev ... More >>

Sniffing Out the Fireworks In Advance of the Fair Park Fourth

Maverick Madness

Better late than never, let's hear it for U-T-Yay!

The Nearness of Ella

The DTC places Fitzgerald back in the spotlight

First Ladies of Jazz

Ella enchants at DTC and Billie swings at Contemporary Theatre

Knights' Tale

Another historic emblem of black Dallas stands on the brink

Booka Shade |Henrik Schwartz |Ricardo Villalobos

DJ Kicks (!K7)|Live (!K7)|Fabric 36 (Fabric)

All That Jazz

Hear the songs of Louis, Ella and Duke

It's All in the Music

The evolutionary ?uest of the Roots

Gumbo Rune

DaZa offers a dash of Creole poetry

M. Ward

Post-War (Merge)

Oh Boyardee!

Tarantino's Italian-American comfort fare is filling but unchallenging

Big Not-Easy

Thought the RIAA was bad when they sued downloaders? You ain't heard nothin'.

Walker, Texas Ranger

From Dallas came the man who first plugged blues into an amp--and into popular culture

Come Marching In

New Orleans musicians in Texas overcome Katrina the only way they know how

Holiday Jeer

For a joyous holiday, Christmas sure has some bloody awful music

A Sad Salvation

At SXSW, you couldn't hear the bad news over all that music

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Columbine Harvester

Michael Moore goes threshing about in search of fear itself

Say Nothing

When two lovers meet in Serendipity, it's a rather unfortunate accident

Single Barrel, Double Standard

When Lancaster's school superintendent ordered a lenient sentence for two white kids caught with shotguns, black parents said it was one more example of the suburb's bigotry

Back to the Bass

Dallas-born Harry Babasin was one of jazz's great bass players--and is one of its most forgotten pioneers

Gave the People What They Had

Sometimes, the best new music is the best old music

He Got Rhythm

Ken Burns wants you to know why Jazz is America's music

Price He's Paid

Ray Price has seen it all, from bucket-of-blood joints out on the Jacksboro Highway to Hank Williams' surgery scars

Naked eye

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Follow the winners

Major-label survivors Royal Trux peel away experience to make a fresh, funky new album

Soul Coughing

Slavens to the rhythm

Dr. Paul's Texclectic Radio goes Dada

Havana good time

Brave Combo's Joe Cripps goes to Cuba, becomes friends with Peter Buck, and talks to Castro

Jazzy dining

Soho Food hits the right notes; Ocean Grill & Jazz blows cold

Night & Day

December 17 - 23, 1998

Now's the time

Wynton Marsalis sideman Wessell Anderson is Leaning House's best hope to make some noise

Prometheus unbound

The boxed set of Charles Mingus' Atlantic years

Out There

Out There

Doing family time on planet earth

The Neville Brothers love globally and act locally

Man with a horn

Jeff Aycock hasn't hocked his dreams just yet

Out There

To be or not to bop

Texan Jazz unveils the Lone Star contribution to jazz

Out There

Events for the week

Home of the range

Randy Erwin belatedly releases an astounding, varied work

Idol worship

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars