Charlie Parker

Chico & Rita: An Oscar-Nominated Jazz Cartoon

Rhapsody: Perfecting the Pitch

The Netflix of music is celebrating 10 years of being the next big thing. Is it primed to finally turn that prophecy into reality?

Branford Marsalis Opened a Four-Night Residency With Humility and Musicianship Seldom Found at a Rock Show, Last Night at Jazz Alley

​Branford Marsalis Quartet Thursday, Sept. 15 Jazz Alley Upcoming: Tonight and Saturday (7:30 & 9:30), Sunday (7:30) When the host at Jazz Alley introduced the Branford Marsalis Quartet last night, he informed the audience of a few of the evening's rules: No recording, no photographs, and, pl ... More >>

Branford Marsalis: "Jazz Was Probably Better When There Was No Jazz Radio"

Branford Marsalis plays Jazz Alley Sept. 15 to 18.​I'm having a good time chipping away at the transcription of my chat with Branford Marsalis, which I started mentioning on Tuesday. I've got a few more highlights to pull out over the next week, but here are a couple interesting exchanges to g ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Branford Marsalis plays Jazz Alley Sept. 15 to 18.​I'm having a good time chipping away at the transcription of my chat with Branford Marsalis, which I started mentioning on Tuesday. I've got a few more highlights to pull out over the next week, but here are a couple interesting exchanges to g ... More >>

Lee Konitz

Branford Marsalis plays Jazz Alley Sept. 15 to 18.​I'm having a good time chipping away at the transcription of my chat with Branford Marsalis, which I started mentioning on Tuesday. I've got a few more highlights to pull out over the next week, but here are a couple interesting exchanges to g ... More >>

Last Night: Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar & Kerouac's Ghost @ Showbox

Laura MusselmanBen Gibbard, left, and Jay Farrar played Showbox at the Market on Sunday, Jan. 24.​Sensitive middle-class white boys have found common ground in Jack Kerouac's writing for the last fifty years now, so in that sense it's not surprising to see Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar sharing a ... More >>

Unrehabbed, Unparalleled

Laura MusselmanBen Gibbard, left, and Jay Farrar played Showbox at the Market on Sunday, Jan. 24.​Sensitive middle-class white boys have found common ground in Jack Kerouac's writing for the last fifty years now, so in that sense it's not surprising to see Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar sharing a ... More >>

Occasionally, Thelonious Monk Played Well With Others

But he played better by himself.

Notable Shows

Highlights-and otherwise-of this week's music calendar.

Notable Shows

Highlights-and otherwise-of this week's music calendar.

Notable Shows

Highlights-and otherwise-of this week's music calendar.

May 17-24, 2006

John Cassavetes, Preston Sturges, Che Guevara, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and more.

Out of the Past

John Cassavetes, Preston Sturges, Che Guevara, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and more.

2005 in the Mix

We asked Seattle Weekly's music writers to compile a CD-R of their favorite music from the year. Here's what they came up with.

Cave In

Also: Daylight Basement, Silver Jews, Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926–1937, Stevie Wonder, and Lightning Bolt.

Crave

Also: Once On This Island.

This Week's Reads

Brittany A. Daley, Bill Hicks, Lucius Shepard, and Graham Lord.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Also: Orpheus

Flashback Time

Giving the gift of the musical past.

Dec. 8-14, 2004

Giving the gift of the musical past.

Dec. 1-7, 2004

Giving the gift of the musical past.

This Week's Reads

Joy Williams, John Leland, and Nadine Cohodas.

CD Reviews

Joy Williams, John Leland, and Nadine Cohodas.

Repaying Old Debts With Flowers

Joy Williams, John Leland, and Nadine Cohodas.

Pop Clients

Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Mylab's Wayne Horvitz and Tucker Martine.

Cheap Gifts!

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

What's That Sound?

Think you've heard it all? Guess again.

Unpackaged Presence

The authentic appeal of bars with a gift for being themselves.

The Good Humor Man

The legendary Arthur Lee on life, Love, Hendrix, and Tom Hanks' forehead.

It's alive!

But you'd never know it watching Ken Burns' music marathon.

A Beat Apart

From yodeling to cartoon sound effects, these CDs can't be duplicated

Jazz power

Earshot lumbers on, attracting Seattle's strong players and ace out of towners.

Debating the Dead

An imaginary Grateful conversation.

Big Beat

A ghost from the past doles out the essential readings of Jack Kerouac

Different Drummer

Jazz legend Max Roach dances to his own beat.