At 85 Lee Konitz is still cool, even if his playing exceeds the confines of that tag.

As a member of Miles Davis’ cool jazz sessions in the late ‘40s that would produce the legendary album “The Birth of the Cool” in 1950, Konitz has long been considered by many jazz fans to be synonymous with the style.

In a 75-minute set at Dazzle on Saturday night, the Chris Potter trio covered not just decades, but millennia.

Friday at the Boulder Theater, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe threw one of the funkiest dance parties of the year thus far. Though a Further show in Broomfield and fresh snow in the mountains kept the show from selling out like the last time Karl was in town, the theater was nonetheless alive with energy from start to finish.

Magic Slim, a contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago’s electric blues, has died at age 75.

New Orleans’ Galactic steamrolled the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, stomping through two-plus hours of swampy, fiery grooves. Galactic conjured a raging, steamy boogie, wrapping its soulful, brassy funk around Living Colour frontman Corey Glover’s pitch-perfect vocals.

Being less interested in what people are wearing, who shows up, speeches and drama, we decided to focus on the actual music at the Grammys (crazy right?). That’s why we took the liberty to create a playlist of our favorite tunes from the 2013 Grammys.

Victor Wooten philosophized with us on growth through purposeful mistakes in a talk with Reverb before heading to Colorado Saturday.

The goatee and barrel-chested frame may be trademarks, but musically, jazz master Joe Lovano is a chameleon.

Here are Reverb’s best concerts for the week of 01/04/13-01/10/13. The list includes Justin Bieber, Trampled by Turtles and more.

If ever a band could stand accused of blowing the roof off a building it would be the Big Easy styling’s of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue.