Holiday Guide - Dec. 5, 2008
A gift a day: books capture jazz and punk
I know, writing about music is like dancing about art -- or however that great quote by Elvis Costello went. But there have always been great books about music and three recent ones make great gifts this holiday season.
Tags: Carlo Verri, Jazz from A to Z, John Lydon, Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, Coltrane, Ben Ratliff, Juliana Hatfield

Music - Sept. 17, 2007
The Trane rolls along
Last year, Prestige began a new series of boxes trying to chip down that megalith into affordable and digestible chunks. The second installment is now out.
Tags: coltrane, pawelski, prestige, concord, fantasy, jazz, tenor, dix hills, long island, national register of historic places

Music - Jan. 16, 2007
OnMilwaukee.com music update: Jan. 16-21, 2007
There's a new local music podcast with Julie Lawrence and WMSE's Brent Gohde, hits from Atomic and news from WMSE ... all here in the OnMilwaukee.com music update.
Tags: gohde, atomic, wmse, coltrane

Music - Jan. 14, 2007
Alice Coltrane dies at 69
Jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, widow of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, died Friday, Jan. 12 at the West Hills Hospital near Los Angeles. She was 69.
Tags: Coltrane

Music - Oct. 8, 2006
Tyner brings a bit of Blue Note to Alverno
As the McCoy Tyner Trio, Tyner and his sidemen, Charnett Moffett on bass and Eric Kamau Gravatt on drums, the band performed an 80-minute set -– replete with two encores including one after the houselights had already been turned on –- that left the audience exhilarated and ready for more.
Tags: Tyner, Charnett Moffett, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Coltrane, Alverno