Subject: Fusion Jazz

• The World According to Herbie

  Six new releases paint an intriguing picture of jazz chameleon Herbie Hancock.

  January 21, 1999

• Playlist

  April 8, 1999

• Woody Shaw

  April 13, 2000

• Return to Forever

  Chick Corea’s breakthrough act is back after nearly three decades.

  May 29, 2008

• Five Peace Band is miles from where Chick Corea and John McLaughlin began

  March 19, 2009

• Discmania

  Backbeat writers revisit their favorite albums of the year.

  December 27, 2001

• Larry Coryell is still a fleet-fingered jazz mastermind

  September 11, 2008

• Return to Forever

  May 29, 2008

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  April 24, 2003

• Adam Stern

  Twang Shui
  Self-released

  April 23, 2009

• Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

  July 12, 2007

• Wild Game

  Larimer Lounge

  April 19, 2007

• Clutch

  Sound Bites

  April 12, 2007

• The Dixie Dregs

  Friday, January 12, Boulder Theater, Boulder, 303-786-7030.

  January 11, 2007

• Jack of All Trades

  Jack DeJohnette promotes drumming diversity.

  October 5, 2006

• Jama-Sonique

  Oriental Theater

  June 22, 2006

• Fully Loaded

  Friday, March 17, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772; Saturday, March 18, Dulcinea's 100th Monkey, 303-832-3601; Sunday, March 19, D-Note, Arvada, 303-463-6683.

  March 16, 2006

• Steve Kimock

  Friday, December 9, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399; Saturday, December 10, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772.

  December 8, 2005

• Four Tet

  Everything Ecstatic (Domino)

  May 26, 2005

• Neil Haverstick

  Stick Man (Self-released)

  March 31, 2005

• Medeski Martin & Wood

  End of the World Party (Just in Case) (Blue Note)

  September 2, 2004

• The Evolutionary

  Charting the territory explored by John McLaughlin's guitar.

  September 11, 2003

• Club Scout

  Sensory Circus

  May 8, 2003

• Critic's Choice

  Dave Holland

  April 17, 2003

• Gil Evans

  The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Bluebird)

  April 11, 2002

• Hit Pick

  Buckner Funken Jazz

  March 28, 2002

• The Musings of Miles

  Almost ten years after his death, jazz fans remain fascinated by the man who gave birth to cool.

  July 5, 2001

• All's Dope on the Western Front

  The acid jazz of United Dope Front keeps 'em dancing in the trenches.

  November 9, 2000

• Night & Day

  February 25 - March 3, 1999

  February 25, 1999

• Mama Knows Best

  May 1, 1997

• Thrills for the week

  March 6, 1997

• Soul-Jazz Power

  Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff haven't changed a lick since the Sixties. And why should they?

  December 12, 1996

• MASSIVE ATTACK, BOULDER STYLE

  January 24, 1996

• THRILLS

  August 3, 1994

• The Motet

  September 3, 2009