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Charlie Parker

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    October 14, 2011

    Steve Weiss, What Are You Listening To?

    Anthony SandovalSteve Weiss​Steve Weiss Weiss is a fine art photographer with Candid Landscapes and executive director of No Festival Required Independent Cinema, a four-time Best Of Phoenix winner. Weiss will be doing film programming for Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's new SMoCA Lounge i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Rogue Cinema

    Outcast music in an outcast land

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2004

    Legends of the Fall

    Cirque du Soleil tumbles toward ecstasy

  • Music

    March 11, 2004

    Various Artists

    Savoy on Central Avenue (Savoy Jazz)

  • News

    September 11, 2003

    Jazz Rift

    Down by the tracks, there's a thriving jazz scene so authentic it's even got heartbreak

  • Music

    July 3, 2003

    Lee Konitz

    Motion (Verve)

  • Culture

    June 12, 2003

    Hammer of the Gods

    With a handful of artists, 'classic rock' is not a pejorative

  • Music

    June 27, 2002

    It's All Good

    All's experimental edge hasn't dulled with age

  • Music

    June 6, 2002

    Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea

    Jumpin' at Apollo/McVoutie's Central Avenue Blues (Delmark)

  • Music

    August 2, 2001

    The Coffee-House Kid

    Stardom might be cool for Adam Carroll. But mainly he just wants to be your friend.

  • Music

    July 26, 2001

    El Parche

    Hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion, Estéban 'Steve' Jordan is one bad-ass pachuco

  • Music

    July 5, 2001

    Pleasure Forever

    Pleasure Forever (Sub Pop)

  • Music

    June 21, 2001

    Book 'Em

    Taking a look at some of the best music literature from the past few months

  • Music

    April 19, 2001

    The Art Pepper Companion: Writings on a Jazz Original

    Edited by Todd Selbert (Cooper Square Press)

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Birth of the Cool: Beat, BeBop and the American Avant-Garde

    By Lewis MacAdams (Simon & Schuster Free Press)

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Charlie Parker

    The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Sessions: 1944-1948 (Savoy Records)

  • Dining

    February 22, 2001

    Prance Charming

    Octogenarian dancer still on his toes

  • Music

    February 1, 2001

    Alive and Kicking

    Despite being entombed in the recent PBS series, Gumbo shows why jazz is very much alive and well with a fine batch of new releases

  • Music

    December 28, 2000

    Critical Mass 2000

    Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

  • Music

    December 14, 2000

    Future Shock

    Gumbo gazes into his crystal ball and tells us what to expect in jazz, blues and heritage as we approach 2001

  • Music

    November 30, 2000

    He Got Rhythm

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

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    Write or Wrong

    Our quarterly roundup of music books lets us get lost with Chet Baker, nasty with Bill Monroe and saved by Al Green, while Ted Nugent teaches us that happiness really is a warm gun

  • Dining

    November 2, 2000

    Euphonium Euphoria

    She's a ... what?

  • Best of Phoenix

    September 21, 2000

    Best Place to Watch First Wives and Lounge Lizards

    The Velvet Room
    7111 East Fifth Avenue, Scottsdale
    480-941-6000

  • Music

    August 10, 2000

    The Content Partners

    Any major dude will tell you a Steely Dan story is not to be trusted

  • Dining

    June 29, 2000

    When Plush Comes to Shove

    The Velvet Room

  • Music

    June 1, 2000

    Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation

    By Eric Nisenson
    (St. Martin's Press)

  • Music

    May 18, 2000

    Smooth Operators

    Haikus and lows abound in this month's jazz and heritage releases

  • Music

    January 20, 2000

    Brand New Year

    Having averted a millennial apocalypse, it's time to catch up on the latest in heritage in roots music

  • Music

    December 9, 1999

    Sonic Stew

    The first of our monthly roundups of the latest jazz, blues, country, folk and roots releases

  • Music

    October 7, 1999

    Molten Wax

    The first of our monthly roundups of the latest jazz, blues, country, folk and roots releases

  • Music

    July 22, 1999

    Jazz Traveler

    Argentinean jazz legend Gato Barbieri's constant search for new sounds goes on

  • Music

    January 21, 1999

    Universal Greed

    Seagram's merger invites a look into how the suits took record labels away from the true music enthusiasts

  • Film

    September 3, 1998

    A Star Is Boring

    Why Do Fools Fall in Love offers up all the wrong reasons

  • Calendar

    January 8, 1998

    Calendar for the week

    Why Do Fools Fall in Love offers up all the wrong reasons

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    The Prodigious Son

    Buddy Strong will be a famous musician someday. Will he cross over, or cling to the cross?

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Letters

    Buddy Strong will be a famous musician someday. Will he cross over, or cling to the cross?

  • Music

    November 21, 1996

    Shango-La

    Pulling influence from Cobain as well as Coltrane, Charlie Hunter leads the charge for alt. generation jazz

  • Music

    September 5, 1996

    All That Jazz

    Pulling influence from Cobain as well as Coltrane, Charlie Hunter leads the charge for alt. generation jazz

  • Film

    August 15, 1996

    Riff Trade

    Altman noodles through jazz-packed Kansas City

  • Music

    December 28, 1995

    Survey Says...

    New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)

  • Music

    October 19, 1995

    Model Trane

    New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)

  • News

    August 31, 1995

    THE DOWNBEAT GENERATION

    New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)

  • Music

    September 15, 1993

    CHARLIE'S ANGELINSPIRED BY SAX LEGEND PARKER, SONNY ROLLINS FINDS PEACE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE-WHETHER HE'S PLAYING IN IT OR NOT

    New Times critics look back on the "oohs" and the "ughs" of pop music '95 (results tabulated from individual critics' lists and comments)

  • Music

    September 15, 1993

    WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE?

    HIP-HOP IS GOING TO POT. LITERALLY.

  • Music

    June 30, 1993

    JAZZSCAM

    IT'S SWEET, IT'S SIMLE AND IT SELLS. BUT IT AIN'T JAZZ.

  • Music

    April 21, 1993

    MINGUS AMONG US

    BORN IN NAGALES, BASSIST CHARLES MINGUS SPENT HIS LIFE EXTENDING THE FRONTIERS OF JAZZ. NOW HIS HOMETOWN IS THROWING HIM A 71ST BIRTHDAY PARTY.

  • Music

    December 23, 1992

    BUSTIN' OUT OF BLACKFACE

    WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?

  • News

    December 16, 1992

    LIVES THAT SPEAK VOLUMES

    WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?

  • Music

    November 18, 1992

    RIFF AND READ

    WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?

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