Alonso Arreola is a Mexican bass player, music writer, teacher and composer. One of the most creative and interesting players in Latin America, has five albums by his own, plus many other projects with recognized artists...
Bee vs. Moth is an instrumental jazz/rock band from Austin, TX. The band’s eclectic sound has been described as a mix between Ornette Coleman and Television. Bee vs. Moth has been featured on NPR's "All Songs Conside...
Partners in music, business, and life, bassist/composer/producer Joël Dilley and songwriter/vocalist/pianist Bett Butler have performed together for over two decades in configurations from jazz trios to small orchestras...
Austin-based jazz phenoms Ephraim Owens, Red Young, and Brannen Temple transform into the explosively eclectic trio, Black Red Black. Individually, these musicians are powerhouses– Owens won the title of “Best Horn...
Bruce Saunders has 4 recordings as a leader: "Forget Everything" (with Jack DeJohnette), "Likely Story" (with Peter Erskine), "Fragment" and his most recent "8x5." He has appeared on many recordings as a sideman. He was ...
“Elias’s CD (Kicks) is very much in the Jazz group concept of today. It is obvious he has spent the time to reach a level of excellence that is commendable.” -Ellis Marsalis
Elias is a dynamic, young jazz saxoph...
Austin, Texas based composer-bandleader Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater to DJ Spooky to the Au...
Austin-based jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader Jeff Lofton
opened TEDX Austin 2012 with Graham Reynolds
jazz trumpeter - Best Jazz Band '10-'11 Austin Music Awards / Austin Chronicle Music Poll- was recently fe...
Jon Blondell was born in Iowa, grew up in Harlingen and studied music at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. While studying there he quickly became a part of the local music scene both as a trombonist and a ba...
JOSEPH LEO BWARIE is the not to be missed new artist at SXSW®. Joseph Leo Bwarie will perform with his live band in a first ever showcase performance of his debut solo album "Nothin’ But Love." Bwarie's Capitol Reco...
Matt Munisteri has spent the last 10 years singing his original songs, while working a pretty dreamy day job as a virtuosic and in-demand guitarist with a wide-ranging roster of notable artists across the jazz and Americ...
Neil Blumofe is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, a growing congregation of 640+ families. Rabbi Blumofe also creates, produces and performs in a live music series for KUT radio entitled the Art o...
A-List: A Review
It was a pleasure to hear and review this fine freshman production effort by virtuoso trombonist Reggie Watkins, a musician with a full arsenal of tools at his disposal: an extensive (but not overly u...
“Real music is crash protected,” state the liner notes of Black Radio, a future landmark album by the Robert Glasper Experiment that boldly stakes out new musical territory and transcends any notion of genre, drawing...
If indeed “you blows who you is,” as Louis Armstrong once famously said, then Stephen Bruner’s bass is a mainline to the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from the stars onto staff paper. His Flying Lotus-pro...
