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Beyond Playlist: Charles Mingus and More

Q&A with Vincent Gallo of RRIICCEE

On the Road in Search of Jack

Jack Kerouac Wrote Here, Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool

Getting Better With Age

Two decades does the music of Yusef Lateef and Rahsaan Roland Kirk a world of good.

Charles Mingus

The Very Best of Charles Mingus(Rhino/Atlantic)

Jessica Williams/Bruce Barth

The Very Best of Charles Mingus(Rhino/Atlantic)

Van Morrison revisits perhaps his finest hour, forty years later

"I believe I've transcended," Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, during the second night of a brief November stint at the Hollywood Bowl. Indeed, frequently over the course of those two nights, the famously mercurial, 63-year-old Iri ... More >>

Dead Kenny G’s

There’s nothing smooth about the subversive jazzy punk funk these cats play.

Larry Coryell is still a fleet-fingered jazz mastermind

There’s nothing smooth about the subversive jazzy punk funk these cats play.

Night & Day

March 18-24, 1999

Mingus Big Band

Blues and Politics
(Dreyfus Jazz)

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Reinvents Itself…Again.

For the members of this trio, the joy is truly in the journey.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Amos Lee Teaches Awareness

From the classroom to the stage, this troubadour is molding young minds.

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Wednesday, July 18, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772.

John Scofield

This chameleonic guitarist is still shredding after all these years.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Cirque du Something

The Secret Circus brings in the (offbeat) clowns.

Jazz Rejuvenation

The Mingus Big Band follows in the legend's footsteps.

Madlib

Shades of Blue (Blue Note)

Adrian Romero

Shirts Against Skins

That's a Wrap-Up

Backbeat writers sound off on a few of their favorite musical things from 2002.

Ripple Effect

Ken Burns's Jazz remains controversial. But its effect on album sales is difficult to dispute.

A Family Tree

Though rooted in some legendary punk and rock bands, Banyan's free-form style extends far into the future.

Critic's Choice

Mingus Big Band

Shock of the Old

Two reasons why today's jazzers are afraid to go where Ornette Coleman went before.

Bang! Bang! You're Alive

Stumbling down memory lane with the late Lester Bangs.

Combination Platter

Amon Tobin mixes hip-hop and drum and bass with all that future jazz.

Orchestral Maneuvers in the Works

The Creative Music Works Orchestra brings jazz out of the closet.

Access Denio

With her own cosmopolitan pedagogy, Amy Denio goes the spoot route.

Playlist

Ralph Carney, Charlie Haden Quartet West, Enemymine, Styx

Night & Day

March 11 - 17, 1999

Inside Out There

Pianist Marc Sabatella has no interest in making one-dimensional music.

Feedback

Pianist Marc Sabatella has no interest in making one-dimensional music.

Picking Up the Pieces

Pianist Marc Sabatella has no interest in making one-dimensional music.

And the Winners Are ...

Handing out the trophies for 1997's best albums.

Thrills for the week

Handing out the trophies for 1997's best albums.

Playlist

Handing out the trophies for 1997's best albums.

Beautiful McBride

Handing out the trophies for 1997's best albums.

RIGHT HAHN

Handing out the trophies for 1997's best albums.

SWEET AS JAM

Handing out the trophies for 1997's best albums.

THRILLS

Handing out the trophies for 1997's best albums.

3'S A CROWD

UNMASKING THE TWO BRITISH MASTERMINDS BEHIND THE JAZZ-RAP SENSATION US3.

Beyond Playlist: Green Day and more

Green Day 21st Century Breakdown (Reprise Records) The five years since the release of American Idiot, an album so strong that most critics didn't believe the Green Day crew had it in them, have only added to the burden of expectations for 21st Century Breakdown, as Billie Joe Armstrong and pals ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of December 7, 2009

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For t ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of January 11, 2010

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. F ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of February 1, 2010

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. ... More >>