Posts Tagged ‘jazz’
Joe’s back in town
Two decades at Jubilee have made Joe Rogers’ return to jazz even sweeter.JIMMY FOWLER Photos by Vishal Malhotra
On a cool Saturday night last November, pianist and composer Joe Rogers played an intimate, sold-out set at the Southside arts center Arts Fifth Avenue. At 58, the bearded, curly-headed Rogers still looked impishly youthful. At...
2011 The Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards
Fort Worth Weekly Music StaffFort Worth may never be a “music town” in the way that, say, Los Angeles, Austin, Nashville, Seattle, and New York City are, with multiple venues, several destination studios, a couple of big labels, and a lot of famous res...
Texas Ballet Theater Mixes It Up
All dourness aside, TBT’s mixed repertoire programs had Bass Hall rocking.LEONARD EUREKA
Mixed repertoire programs can be a tough nut to crack. Without the unifying music and storyline of a full-length work, success depends on lining up shorter ballets that make a satisfying evening together. Texas Ballet Theater, ...
It’s Electric, Booga Wooga Wooga
HearsayFort Worth is gonna be bustling this weekend. Saturday is Fall Gallery Night, which means that a lot of us are going to be hopping from gallery to gallery –– Artspace 111, Gallery 414, and William Campbell Contemporary Art ...
Is He Blue?
Blues in the Night marks the departure of Jubilee Theatre artistic director Ed Smith.JIMMY FOWLER
Back in 1992, Jubilee Theatre artistic director Ed Smith saw a Los Angeles production of Sheldon Epps’s jazz and blues revue Blues in the Night. Although it starred his friend, the soul singer Freda Payne, he wasn’t much im...
Lotsa Verve at Ridglea Jazz Café
The newly opened Westside joint offers soul food and smooth sounds.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
The 6000 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard has seen its share of restaurants come and go. The soul food restaurant Ridglea Jazz Café recently opened in the spot previously occupied by Ovation, another soul food joint. Ridglea’s ...
2010 Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards
Photos by Vishal MalhotraIn terms of sheer productivity, the past 12 months will be remembered as a pivotal moment in Fort Worth music. Everybody and their dog put out an album, EP, or song –– and 99 percent of them were bona fide, full-fledged, no...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 2 At noon, 8.0 Restaurant & Bar is hosting its annual Indianapolis 500 Champion’s Luncheon, presented by Texas Motor Speedway. The Indy champion, who will be making just his or her second public appearance after bei...
Sam Sadigursky
Ken ShimamotoIt would be wrong to call Words Project III Miniatures a “poetry-jazz” record. To many folks, that description evokes a ’50s movie cliché of goateed beret-and-turtleneck wearers in a smoky basement, snapping ...
Jhon Kahsen Quartet
Anthony MarianiEveryone knows Johnny Case as that guy who’s played straight-ahead piano jazz at Sardines Ristorante Italiano every night for nearly 30 years. Folks even a little plugged in might also know that Case has done some sonic a...