Miles Davis

Dawn Richard Makes Local Appearance and Reaches Top 10

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Lance Price, CD Source owner, was exhilarated to have Dawn Richard make an appearance at his s ... More >>

Is Adele's 21 the 21st Century Commercial Equivalent to Thriller?

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Fleetwood Mac will be playing in Dallas at the American Airlines Center June 4, and their reis ... More >>

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 >>

Crossroads Audio's Ed Spoto: "It's Horrible To Go To A Concert With An Audio Engineer"

Ed Spoto helms Crossroads Audio, which provides many of the mics, PAs, lighting systems and rigs you see at local shows and festivals. Locally, his client list includes acts like Bowling For Soup, Erykah Badu, The Denton Blues Festival and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Nationally, Spoto, his wife ... More >>

10 Top Acts With Dual Drummers

Tonight, The Melvins will perform at Trees. While perusing the Internet in search of photos, I realized the band has two drummers. I thought about how pointless and excessive it is to actually employ two drummers to support a band, but then I considered how powerful the result can be. Two drummers s ... More >>

Lenny White of Return to Forever: "Anything That Is Great Will Last An Eternity."

Along with Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea's Return to Forever brought jazz music to a rock audience. And though the "jazz fusion" label seemed to piss off the purists, Corea and the other talented musicians didn't mind the increased profile and accompanying profits. Nearly ... More >>

Critics' Pick: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Thursday, April 28, at South Side Music Hall

If You Missed Strong Ale Festival At The Meddlesome Moth, Here Are Some Recommendations For Sunday's Leftovers Brunch

Jesse HugheyChicken-fried chicken with chipotle gravy and grits was great. But the real stars at the Strong Ale Festival were the beers, like this sample of Ommegang Triple Perfection.​Good news if you missed the Strong Ale Festival at the Meddlesome Moth on Saturday -- you weren't alone. Which wa ... More >>

Beers Of The Year

Don't criticize it.​Overall, it's been another great year for beer, at least from my perspective here in North Texas. If I didn't suspect reader list burnout, I could probably do another top 10 piece on the best developments of the past year, and even another on things I'm most looking forward to ... More >>

Q&A: John McLaughlin Talks Miles Davis, Indian Philosophy and Frank Zappa's Jealousy

At 68, legendary guitarist John McLaughlin has nothing left to prove. He's played with everyone from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix. And, as leader of the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the '70s, McLaughlin created a bold new fusion of jazz, rock and Indian influences that remains some of the most challenging ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: John McLaughlin at The Granada, Brokencyde at The Loft and Hinder at The Palladium Ballroom

Not a bad selection of shows for the Monday after Turkey Day. But, OK, maybe not the best, either.

That's the Way T-Shirts Go, Redux: The Other Great Ron Washington Fashion Statement

​Last week we bought a few of the DropWear.com fellas' Ron Washington tees. And, despite rumors and reports to the contrary, the Texas Rangers have not officially commissioned anyone to do a "That's the Way Baseball Go" tee. Says spokesman John Blake via e-mail, "This is actually an unlicensed pro ... More >>

Today In Music News: The Libertines May Reunite, Built To Spill Divulge Album Deets and Miles Davis Gets 8-Bit'ed

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 20, 2009...Pete Doherty is this close to getting The Libertines back together.  All that's left is the pesky business of convincing the front man you won't steal his equipment (again) and sell them for drugs and to go along with the pl ... More >>

The Holy Trinity Bridge

From The Trinity Trust's brand-new Web site devoted to selling Dallas on the Calatrava Bridge​As promised, The Trinity Trust today debuted its new campaign to build interest in the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, and there's an accompanying Web site: Discover the Trinity. You'll also find a second, jaz ... More >>

Today in Music News: Rick Astley Kills It, Flaming Lips Double Up, John Lennon Exhibit Gets Bloody

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 13, 2009... When you go to a karaoke bar to belt out drunken tunes, most people don't expect to get one upped by Rick Astley. The Flaming Lips will release a double album follow-up to At War With The Mystics. Wayne Coyne says it sounds like ... More >>

Quincy Jones Can't Help But Look Back on His Life and Legacy

USA Today Plays the Texas Blues

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

10 Artists We'd Resurrect for Easter

Included: Freddie Mercury, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline

These Paintings Are Strictly Tabu

The Sea & Cake

Friday, September 21, at House of Blues

Backtrackin'

Things you may have missed the first time

At Tower, Everything Must Go!

Keith Jarrett

The Carnegie Hall Concert (ECM)

Gumbo Rune

DaZa offers a dash of Creole poetry

Double Trouble

Eels still reel from one of history's best double albums, but history isn't so kind to others

Arcadia Fire Sale

Of Lost Legends and Found Heroes

The Beatdown

Have April showers led to Derrick May's Saturday night shower?

Miles Davis

The Cellar Door Sessions (Columbia/Legacy)

Quack Addicts

Where does Ryan Adams fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

Miles Davis

Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Sony Legacy)

Best Sidewalk Cafe

Greenz

Feelin’ Saxy

Addison hosts the best in local jazz

Best Jazz Club

Sambuca

Best Place to Put Money in a Jukebox

The Elbow Room

He Got Rhythm

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

The Falcon Project

Lights Karma Action (Idol Records)

The artist formerly known as print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

Two-bass hit

A six-disc box reminds us why Miles and Trane were the ultimate one-two punch

A church supreme

After three decades of feeding the homeless, the world's only church devoted to John Coltrane now finds itself without a home

Out There

The Artist

Shelf life

Quartet Out is finally Welcome to the Party

Pavement

Terror Twilight (Matador Records)

The keys of time

Red Garland played with legends and then became one. So why is he barely known in his hometown?

Comes to mind

Even on album, Sivad's just making it up as it goes

Cold fusion

Liberty's Asian fusion concept slips on a noodle

Out Here

Roadshows