Dizzy Gillespie

Blues Brother

Top Five Vocal Instrumentalists (with Video)

Marty ChandlerLipbone Redding: Does a wine glass sound like a trumpet?​Being a musician usually entails playing an instrument, but there are downsides to having a drum set or a six-string, especially when lugging one's own equipment on tour.But there are a handful of musicians whose instruments ar ... More >>

A Great Day (Coming): We Invoke Iconic Art For Our 40th and to Honor Community Resistance to Oppression

Marty ChandlerLipbone Redding: Does a wine glass sound like a trumpet?​Being a musician usually entails playing an instrument, but there are downsides to having a drum set or a six-string, especially when lugging one's own equipment on tour.But there are a handful of musicians whose instruments ar ... More >>

Thugs Life

Those who can

Rogue Cinema

Outcast music in an outcast land

Various Artists

We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song
(Verve)

Thugs Life

Those who can

Battle Acts

Which double/triple bill deserves your entertainment dollar?

Jazz Rift

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

Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea

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

Uncanny X-Man

DJ pioneer Rob Swift of the X-ecutioners turntable crew isn't just spinning his wheels

Forbidden Fruit

The kiddies should be lining up as we slap a parental advisory on the latest batch of jazz, blues and heritage releases

Book 'Em

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

Ascension

13-year-old Scottsdale saxophone prodigy Alex Han prepares for takeoff

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

By Lewis MacAdams (Simon & Schuster Free Press)

Charlie Parker

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

Prance Charming

Octogenarian dancer still on his toes

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

Critical Mass 2000

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

He Got Rhythm

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

Best Jazz/Blues Radio Station

KJZZ-FM 91.5

Upbeat

A load of the latest in heritage as Smokin' Joe gets nasty, Bill Frisell goes to Ghost Town, Greg Osby returns to form and everyone else gets the Gumbo once-over

Sonic Stew

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

Venetian Blind

Will Scottsdale voters preserve "The West's Most Western Town," or opt for "a little bit of Venice"?

Jazz Traveler

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

Universal Greed

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

Ahmad's Blues

Long hailed by his peers, Ahmad Jamal at last has the critics firmly in his corner

Miles Ahead

The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions puts Miles Davis' big leap into proper perspective

Recordings

The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions puts Miles Davis' big leap into proper perspective

Mambo King

After half a century of percussive brilliance, Tito Puente still wants the moon and stars

Calendar for the week

After half a century of percussive brilliance, Tito Puente still wants the moon and stars

Pic Hits for the week

After half a century of percussive brilliance, Tito Puente still wants the moon and stars

All That Jazz

After half a century of percussive brilliance, Tito Puente still wants the moon and stars

Blues Bodhisattva

Valley jazz singer and devout Buddhist Sherry Roberson answers the question "What's the sound of one woman scatting?"

1996 New Times Music Awards Showcase

Valley jazz singer and devout Buddhist Sherry Roberson answers the question "What's the sound of one woman scatting?"

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)

Pic Hits for the week

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

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)

SAX AND THE SINGLE MARSALISBRANFORD LEAVES THE TONIGHT SHOW FOR BUCKSHOT LEFONQUE

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

COOKING WITH DAVETHE LONGTIME VALLEY JAZZMAN WANTS TO STIR UP THE SCENE ANY WAY HE CAN

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

THE CD EQUATION REVEALED THEY RECORD'EM, WE REVIEW'EM

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

PICS HITS AND THRILLS

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

PHANTOM RHYTHMSHE'S ONE OF THE BUSIEST DRUMMERS IN JAZZ, BUT VALLEY NATIVE LEWIS NASH IS A STRANGER IN TOWN

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

BLUES BLOODED JOE LOUIS WALKER IS READY TO EMERGE FROM THE SHADOW OF ROBERT CRAY

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

LIVES THAT SPEAK VOLUMES

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

RIFF AND READ

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

In Their Own Write

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

THE VOICE THAT TIME FORGOT

TONY BENNETT HAS OUTLASTED THE COMPETITION BY TAKING IT SLO-O-O-W