The jazz myth of Chicago is powerful, dating back to 1922, when King Oliver summoned Louis Armstrong from New Orleans to change the world. It continued in the '60s and '70s, when players who'd germinated in the hothouse of the Windy City's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians journeyed to New York to participate in what might yet prove to have been the genre's last great outbreak of creativity (before classicism set in).
Since coaxing their trumpeter-father Dennis Gonzalez out of musical retirement a decade ago and forming Yells at Eels, brothers Aaron (bass) and Stefan Gonzalez...
Prolific indeed is Eaton Lake Tonics frontman Domenic "Tony" Ferraro, who's already released two of this year's most intriguing local discs under his literary-i...
Loyalty to home and love for departed friends are themes that resonate at my house, which is what motivated me to repeatedly spin this disc by a San Antonio out...
On the cover of her debut CD, Malaysian-born, Australian-bred bassist Linda Oh appears as a graphic novel heroine, silhouetted against a full moon, gazing out o...
Chow, Baby has long wanted to do an
occasional series
called "Lunch with the Stars," in which we would find out if people who dine with famous people also get faw...
Since
KXT/91.7-FM
's inaugural broadcast last week, local musos seem to have rediscovered the wonders of the ol' wireless telegraphy box. "Hey, 2009! The 1940s ca...
The radiant and gently heartbreaking
An Education
opens in Grapevine this Friday and is still playing at the Modern this weekend. It richly deserves to be seen, i...
We at
Fort Worth Weekly
are nothing if not topical. We have noticed that Times Are Tough. And so, like every other retailer on this planet, we have figured out ho...