Miles Davis

David Hilker, What Are You Listening To?

David Hilker at Rhythm Room, with Fervor Records band Super Stereo playing​David HilkerHilker is the CEO of Fervor Records.  When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? KWSS, of course. What's the first album you bought?  ... More >>

Good Amount Kickstarts In a Quiet Way

​They say it ain't bragging if it's true -- but last time we wrote about someone's Kickstarter project, big things happened. Now I know that we aren't the sole reason Shawn Demumbrum's Smiths comic met and exceeded its goal. It's a great idea on its own, and the fact that The Guardian, Paste, and ... More >>

Bill Campana, What Are You Listening To?

Bob Nelson​Bill Campana The Valley poet has participated in poetry slams both locally and nationally and can be found at various events around the state. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? It's hard to say. I change the station cons ... More >>

Italian Recipes

Punk-jazz-spazz-thrash bands from Italy post up at Grand Avenue venue

The Flip Side

Hoodlums’ art show is the real bedazzled

Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White

Hoodlums’ art show is the real bedazzled

Red White & Blues Sundays

Hoodlums’ art show is the real bedazzled

Joe DiPadova at Merc Bar

Hoodlums’ art show is the real bedazzled

First Lady of Neo-Soul

Hoodlums’ art show is the real bedazzled

Erykah Badu

Hoodlums’ art show is the real bedazzled

Horn of Plenty

A loving homage to a talented bastard

Superman Returns

Bass ace brings his talented toenail clippings back to town

Rock 'n' revival: resurrecting musical artists to save their genres

Bass ace brings his talented toenail clippings back to town

Various Artists

Putumayo Presents: Euro Groove
(Putumayo World Music)

Boxing Match

Record companies get greedy with repackaging excess

Herbie Hancock

Record companies get greedy with repackaging excess

Betty Davis

They Say I'm Different/Betty Davis
(Light in the Attic)

The Soul of John Black

Just you and them and the music

Overseas MP3s

For pennies a tune, you can build a primo music library and support free enterprise in Russia

Miles Davis

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

Can We Kick It?

Old-school hip-hop is ready for a revival

Legends of the Fall

Cirque du Soleil tumbles toward ecstasy

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom (Hyena)

Live (Evidence)

Best Radio Station -- Blues/Jazz

KJZZ-FM 91.5

Best Jazz CD Selection

Zia Record Exchange

Paperback Writers

Latest music books struggle to demystify pop culture's greatest enigmas

Standards and Practices

A guided tour of the best releases across the musical spectrum

Best Used Jazz Selection

Zia Record Exchange

Miles Davis

'Round About Midnight, Milestones, At Newport 1958, Jazz at the Plaza, The Essential Miles Davis, Live at the Fillmore East -- March 7, 1970: It's About That Time (Columbia/Legacy)

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

By Lewis MacAdams (Simon & Schuster Free Press)

Abunai!

Round Wound Deep Mu Flux EP (Camera Obscura, Australian import)

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

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions 2000

Music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets in New Times' annual poll

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

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

Kind of Blue

The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press)

Smooth Operators

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

The Artist Formerly Known As Print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

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

Stop Making Sense

DJ Logic experiments with hiphop, rock and all that jazz

The Wizard of Austria

At 67, jazz great Joe Zawinul is just beginning to peak

Ahmad's Blues

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

Great Musical Experiences of 1998

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

All That Jazz

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

1996 New Times Music Awards Showcase

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

Model Trane

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

GUMBO CHEFUSING JAZZ AS A BASE, GEORGE DUKE DISHES UP A SPICY, AUTHENTIC BLEND

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

UNCLE JAM'S ARMY

THE FUNKY HOUSE THAT GEORGE CLINTON BUILT HAS INSPIRED EVERYTHING FROM HIP-HOP TO JAZZ