Thelonious Monk

Brother Ali: I Self Devine helped me love my reality

Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and is one of our 20 Best Minnesota Musicians. Here, he speaks about his longtime mentor and labelmate I Self Devine, who celebrates the release of The Sound of Low Class Amerika at the 7th St. Entry tonight. The album is ... More >>

The Thermals, The Klaxons, Eels, and more

Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and is one of our 20 Best Minnesota Musicians. Here, he speaks about his longtime mentor and labelmate I Self Devine, who celebrates the release of The Sound of Low Class Amerika at the 7th St. Entry tonight. The album is ... More >>

Charles Lloyd New Quartet

Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and is one of our 20 Best Minnesota Musicians. Here, he speaks about his longtime mentor and labelmate I Self Devine, who celebrates the release of The Sound of Low Class Amerika at the 7th St. Entry tonight. The album is ... More >>

CRITICS' PICKS

Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and is one of our 20 Best Minnesota Musicians. Here, he speaks about his longtime mentor and labelmate I Self Devine, who celebrates the release of The Sound of Low Class Amerika at the 7th St. Entry tonight. The album is ... More >>

Point of Departure: The biggest envelope

Was Charlie Parker even really improvising?

Ani DiFranco: The extended interview

My full chat with the righteous babe of folk.

Point of Departure: James Buckley Trio at the Red Stag

The real beauty of jazz? You don't need a beret to enjoy it.

Jazz composer Russell dead at 86

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Marcus Roberts

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Jason Moran: In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Ariel Pink, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and more

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Bill Frisell returns to his "oasis"

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Bill Frisell

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Bill Frisell and more

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Randy Weston

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Guess your present: Music edition

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

Shaking the Family Tree

Local noise rockers the Blind Shake resurrect a classic Minneapolis sound

Crimes of Fashion

Project Runway's designers: Can they even dress themselves?

Gently Down The Stream

Singer-songwriter, music teacher, and new father Pete Hofmann sprouts his maritime lullabies behind locked doors

Billy Holloman: This Is Organ Night

Singer-songwriter, music teacher, and new father Pete Hofmann sprouts his maritime lullabies behind locked doors

Eight Ball, Side Pocket

The winning sound of Roy Haynes, father of modern jazz drumming

While You Were Sleeping

Mike Melman's photographs take us to that most foreign of countries: the middle of the night

Bad Luck!

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Straight, No Chaser

How three Midwestern boys reached jazz nirvana

Hill Peaks

After a few low-profile decades, pianist Andrew Hill is resurgent--and restless

Is All That Jazz?

Savoring the variably spicy JVC jazz festival

New Standards: The Bad Plus

With Minneapolis's Dave King on Drums, an Irreverent Trio Turns ABBA and Aphex Twin Into All That Jazz

'Trane Travel

Jazz Tributes to Coltrane, Parker, and Hendrix

The Eight-Year Intermission

After a series of sabbaticals, guitar gurus TVBC return to their flock

Pour Some Sugar On Me

After a series of sabbaticals, guitar gurus TVBC return to their flock

Far Away, So Close

With lusty seniors in Rio and hard-driving cabbies in Lima, filmmaker Heddy Honigmann makes her home in the world

Dean Young: Skid

With lusty seniors in Rio and hard-driving cabbies in Lima, filmmaker Heddy Honigmann makes her home in the world

Ode to Joy

Blissing Out on Cuban-Born Jazz Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba

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

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

The Jazz Dancer

Danny Buraczeski has choreographed a surprising journey from the coal country of pennsylvania to a successful dance career.

The Music of Sound

Click, shriek, boom! Sonic collage artist Escape Mechanism cuts and pastes while aural trickster Lost in Translation slashes and burns

Ninian's Wake

Sonic adventurer John Crozier follows 40 years of pop's past into an ingeniously messy future

Give Until It Hurts

Sonic adventurer John Crozier follows 40 years of pop's past into an ingeniously messy future

Mysterioso

Sonic adventurer John Crozier follows 40 years of pop's past into an ingeniously messy future

Flying Colors & The Montreal Tapes

Sonic adventurer John Crozier follows 40 years of pop's past into an ingeniously messy future

Holiday Box-Set Roundup

Sonic adventurer John Crozier follows 40 years of pop's past into an ingeniously messy future

The Living Dead of the Night

The Living Dead of the Night

Being a collection of notes on the art and science of sleeplessness, with a helpful sidebar on the commercial attractions of the night.

Big Deal Meal

The Living Dead of the Night

Being a collection of notes on the art and science of sleeplessness, with a helpful sidebar on the commercial attractions of the night.

BLUES, JAZZ, ETC.

The Living Dead of the Night

Being a collection of notes on the art and science of sleeplessness, with a helpful sidebar on the commercial attractions of the night.