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This Greenwood Jazz Club Hosted Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Then It Disappeared.

Remembering the Down Beat Ballroom, Tulsa’s long-forgotten jazz club

August 20, 2025

Tulsa Picks: The Week’s Best Tulsa Events, May 7-13

Mayfest, Samantha Crain, Lady Gaga night, Mother's Day and more

May 6, 2025

Tulsa Picks: The Week’s Best Tulsa Events, April 16-22

An Okie food fest, a Joy Harjo reading, a Bunny Ball, and all the 420 you can handle

April 15, 2025

Herbie Hancock Can Be Your Grandpa For A Night

A dispatch from inside the jazz legend's recent visit to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

April 21, 2024

Jazz Millions And Beyond

Thirty years in, Jacob Fred is still rolling in the funk.

March 10, 2024

Lavish Music For Normal Folks

Standing in Fassler Hall, I placed my hand on my schnitzel sandwich, and it said: “Hello, chicken fry.”

January 21, 2024

Can We Offer You Some Nasty Jazz In This Trying Time?

"I've watched UFC bouts with less urgency." Our roving critic at large makes the trip to LowDown for a night with NOLATET.

December 5, 2023

Some Kind of Blue Monday

Our reviewer documents one of the last jazz nights at Hodges Bend, less than a month before the beloved East Village spot burned to the ground.

September 10, 2023