Ornette Coleman

Wright Writes Himself to a Pulitzer

Lived on the Edge

Of Lost Legends and Found Heroes

The artist formerly known as print

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Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

Blues for James

Local jazzer James Clay leaves remarkable legacy

Events for the week

Local jazzer James Clay leaves remarkable legacy

To be or not to bop

Texan Jazz unveils the Lone Star contribution to jazz

College rock

UFOFU brings 'alternative' to ETSU and wins the talent show

House of David

Fathead comes home

Out There

Fathead comes home

The quiet man

Cornell Dupree is the ultimate un-showoff

Prometheus unbound

The boxed set of Charles Mingus' Atlantic years

The King's man

"Jr. Boy" Jones played with them all--now, he plays for himself

Cuba libre

Marc Ribot and his Prosthetic Cubans are Habana good time

Super Sonic

Don't call it space-rock, even if the Falcon Project's new record is set in...outer space

Hey, world

On the Watts Prophets and the author's days in the Writers Workshop

Out Here

On the Watts Prophets and the author's days in the Writers Workshop

Across the Bar

Potluck Audio; Club B-day; Aden high Five; It's not easy being Green

The Falcon Project

Lights Karma Action (Idol Records)

Not Wasting Any Time

Dallas duo creates an online record label

Serart

Serart (Sony)

He Got Rhythm

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

Cred Sheet

Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

She Can't Be Serious

Yes, she can. Genocide, adultery, dead cats--merry Christmas from Diamanda Galas.

A Hoot of a Holler

There never was a tear in Bob Wills' beer

Pat Metheny

The Way Up (Nonesuch)

Poe Lou

It's a perfect day to let Lou Reed talk about going a little bit crazy

War on War

Almost four decades later, The Fugs' Ed Sanders is still fighting

Letters

Animal Farm, Police Story, All That Jazz

Ornette to be

Two reasons why it took Columbia Records two decades to figure out Ornette Coleman

Pat's the rub

The Smithereens' Pat DiNizio is playing in a living room near you

My heart's reflection

Genius plus love still equals Yo La Tengo

Follow the winners

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

Rock this town

Or: Oh, look...it's another end-of-the-century list

Live from New York?

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Whose Young Turks?

Little Jack recruits some new blood and resurrects the ghost of e.e. cummings

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part I)

Little Jack recruits some new blood and resurrects the ghost of e.e. cummings

In Oak Cliff, An Effort to Resurrect the Kessler

View Larger MapSome of you may have noticed that yesterday, in the item about Kidd Springs in Oak Cliff, Jeff Liles posted a link to a video you'll find after the jump, along with the rather cryptic note: "Speakin' of the OC, we have this to look forward to next year:" Ah, but what, precisely, is th ... More >>

Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels featuring Rodrigo Amado

The Great Bydgoszcz Concert (Ayler Records)

Gig Alert: Pat Metheny at the Nokia Theatre Tonight

Pat Metheny​Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny makes a stop in North Texas this evening at Grand Prairie's Nokia Theater. Out on the road supporting his recently released effort Orchestrion, Metheny is capable of taking any particular show in any number of directions.Renowned both for his solo a ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: T-Bone Walker (And B.B. King) Play Monterey Jazz Fest

GregoGet yours today.​Aaron "T-Bone" Walker died 36 years ago, almost to the day; the 7-year-old who lives in my house notified me of this over breakfast Wednesday as he read from the this-day-in-history section of the morning paper. He asked, "Who was T-Bone Walker?" I gave him the short answer: ... More >>

Meat Puppets, Dawes and Lucero To Play Freshly Rebranded Fort Worth Music Festival

​Our pal Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram broke the news yesterday: After eight years of operation under the Jazz by the Boulevard banner, the annual jazz-centric, Fort Worth-based fall music festival now has a new name. The festival, which will still carry a heavy jazz bent, will now ... More >>