Duke Ellington

Heiruspecs Holiday Classic, Concrete Blonde, and more

Peter Ostroushko's Holiday Show

Dweezil Zappa: Frank Zappa predicted the success of iTunes

The late, great Frank Zappa is heralded and revered right up there with Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein as one of America's greatest composers. Actually, no he isn't really. Having such an enormous and varied body of work, the man has often been seen as a divisive artist. Either you love the ... More >>

Screaming Females, Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson, and more

James Carter Organ Trio

Twin Cities Jazz Festival

GrandMothers of Invention carry Frank Zappa's legacy to the Cedar tonight

Mother's Day comes a couple days early this year for freaks and fans of Frank Zappa. The Cedar Cultural Center hosts the Grandmothers of Invention making a stop on their current tour. The show will include the group performing the 1974 landmark recording Roxy & Elsewhere in it's entirety and ver ... More >>

Bon Iver isn't afraid to be beautiful

Justin Vernon is headed for the mainstream with his new LP

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Notes and photos from the field

Photos by Rick Mason​New Orleans Jazz & Heritage FestivalMay 6-8, 2011New Orleans Fair GroundsBY RICK MASONAs the searing Louisiana sun sagged through the gathering Delta dusk west of New Orleans' Fair Grounds last Sunday, the electric atmosphere in front of the towering Gentilly Stage arced a ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Best Coast, Gang of Four, Boz Scaggs

Kurt Elling Quartet

It's Summertime

So hush now, little babies

Readers respond to "The Sound and the Fury"

Bedroom Eyes

Dr. John

Marcus Roberts

Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet

Play it again: Top 10 Reissues of 2008

808s & Heartbreak: the Gimme Noise deathmatch

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Jazz at the Movies: Terence Blanchard Quintet

Freda Payne

Irv Williams

Finality

Irv Williams

Randy Weston

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Dr. John

Big Hits of Mid-America, Volume 412

Five new local CDs Range from Spaghetti Westerns to pot paeans

Linger Awhile

Larry Malmberg's 60-plus years as Minnesota's Accordion King

Blues and the Abstract Truth

All the dirt (and blood and music) on Frank's Euripides hybrid

Squeezing Out Sparks

Improving Franco-American relations with Café Accordion Orchestra

Local Music Yearbook '03

We Sang. We Danced. We Set things on Fire. And Sometime after the Bar Closed, We Wrote It All Down for You.

Patriot Games

Rejecting Bush Inc. and reclaiming American music, Carla Bley plays with the National Anthem

Vive La Révolution

Figaro without the fig leaf; Fugard's prison drama: No curtain, just bars

Bad Luck!

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

The Emperor's New Groove

War and terror have a soundtrack: It's called Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around

City of Sideshows

Amid all the carnival barking of the fringe, we tell you which tent shows deserve your ten bucks

Chris Bowden: Slightly Askew

Altman's Orphans

Oak Street Cinema brings the neglected offspring of an American master in from the cold

Keith Harris's Jazz

Bleat Poet

Three reissued fusion flops from the 1970s give free-jazz giant Ornette Coleman back to the freaks

Swing Shift

The Hothead Fiasco chart a sophisticated sound that goes beyond the dance floor

All the Things You Are

A new book and five-disc reissue offer incomplete portraits of sax great Sonny Rollins

New Music Express

Longtime KFAI host and pioneering electronic musician Richard Paske finds a new key in solo jazz piano

Sound Check

The Indestructible Beat

South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim found a mentor in Duke Ellington, a fan in Mandela, a community in American free jazz, and a muse in his once-lost country

Ebony and Ebony

Mint Condition and Sounds of Blackness trace soul's tributaries to the cusp of the mainstreamMint Condition and Sounds of Blackness trace soul's tributaries to the cusp of the mainstream

Night Songs and Lullabies and Sweet Dreams

Xmas Gumbo

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