Posts Tagged ‘jazz’
Outré Fort Worth
HearsayI dare you to name another musician who’s done what Jhon Kahsen has: Almost every night for the past 25 years, the veteran straight-ahead jazz pianist, perhaps better known as “Johnny Case,” has been holding c...
American Heart Form
Jimmy FowlerLive, improvisational jazz isn’t scary, it needn’t be excessively mathematical or theoretical, and it doesn’t require a college degree to be enjoyed.
Hollywood Shuffle
Local sax-man Johnny Reno has spent a lifetime in music, from all angles.CAROLINE COLLIER
Looking back on a career that has spanned about 30 years, Johnny Reno marvels at his enviable good fortune and wily approach to the music business.
Jazz jumps back onto the Cowtown scene.
CAROLINE COLLIERTake the elevator down to the 4th Street basement where the Scat Jazz Lounge lives these days, and you’ll find the night-blooming flower of jazz thriving under the dim lights.
This Old House
Even a stellar Stage West cast can’t redeem a hackneyed critical fave.Kultur
There’s not a bad seat in the house at the “Old Vic,” Stage West’s new, old digs at the industrial end of West Vickery Boulevard.
Cowgirl Poet
Though traditional C&W singer-songwriter Ginny Mac has just graduated from college, she’s old-school Old West.CAROLINE COLLIER
Ginny Mac is a throwback of sorts. The slight, shy twentysomething Fort Worthian lives somewhere between her laptop and the vintage Western wear she finds at secondhand stores.
Jazz Week
Listen UpRussian-born Dallasite Manya Repnikova writes songs that manage to capture the electricity of moments like those just before a Texas-sized thunderstorm unleashes its payload.
Pump It Up
Drummer Adonis Rose keeps taking giant steps toward putting the Fort on the jazz map.CAROLINE COLLIER
When Adonis Rose arrived in Fort Worth a little more than two years ago, he found the jazz scene here a little lacking.
Progressions
Jazz and smart rock are more closely aligned than normally thought, according to Denton quintet oso closo’s tuneage.Jimmy Fowler
When Adrian Hulet, the singer, pianist, and songwriter for the arty soul outfit oso closo, moved from Grapevine to Denton in 2001 to attend the University of North Texas, he thought he had exorcised his live-band demons forever...