Sonny Rollins

Critics' Picks: Herbie Hancock, LIGHTS, & more

Atlantis Quartet

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 >>

Louis Hayes Trio

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 >>

It's Summertime

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Roy Haynes & the Fountain of Youth Band

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Brother Ali, Dinosaur Jr., John Fogerty, and more

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Joshua Redman

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James Carter

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Bill Frisell returns to his "oasis"

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Eric Alexander and David Hazeltine

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Ravi Coltrane Quartet/ Roy Haynes Quartet

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David Sanchez

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Britt Robson's 100 Best CDs of 2006

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(Some of) All That Jazz

Swinging and swooning over 10 of 2006's best jazz albums

Quote Unquote

Homages, paraphrases, and glorious messes from Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins

10/31 Morning Communiqué

Homages, paraphrases, and glorious messes from Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins

Long Tall Sally and her friends

Homages, paraphrases, and glorious messes from Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins

Home of the Free and the Brave

Avant-garde epics, chamber jazz, and Streisand covers from David S. Ware and William Parker

We Were Wrong

City Pages writers look back on 25 years of arts criticism, and the sentences that still make us cringe

Chris Potter Quartet: Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard

City Pages writers look back on 25 years of arts criticism, and the sentences that still make us cringe

Artists of the Year

Iraq. SARS. Jay Leno, Still on television practically every night. Yeah, 2003 was about as much fun as a social disease.

Bad Luck!

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Happy Apple: Youth Oriented

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Ode to Joy

Blissing Out on Cuban-Born Jazz Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Musical Chairs

The ICP Orchestra Shuffle Musical Genres and Play Their Seats

Song Of Songs

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

2000: The Year In Music

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

Insider's Music for the Sedentary Man?

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

Sweet and Lowdown

In two new albums, sax giant James Carter takes on an opponent his own size: The electric guitar

All the Things You Are

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

Ware In the World

With his eruptive new album, saxophonist David S. Ware is rumbling up from the jazz underground

David Murray Fo deuk Revue

With his eruptive new album, saxophonist David S. Ware is rumbling up from the jazz underground

Holiday Box-Set Roundup

With his eruptive new album, saxophonist David S. Ware is rumbling up from the jazz underground

Dexter Gordon

With his eruptive new album, saxophonist David S. Ware is rumbling up from the jazz underground

Roundup

With his eruptive new album, saxophonist David S. Ware is rumbling up from the jazz underground