Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a University of North Texas professor who teaches classes on blues, jazz and American literature. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation and Philosophical Pragmatism.
Displaying the roots and logic for the band’s presence, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra opened its Friday [...]

Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a University of North Texas professor who teaches classes on blues, jazz and American literature. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation and Philosophical Pragmatism.
Al Jarreau makes “adult contemporary” music. That’s not a problem, except that Jarreau’s set at the Winspear [...]

Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a writer, critic and professor at UNT.
The 5th Annual Hecho en Dallas, an excellent, well-organized, free exhibition, opened Thursday evening at the Latino Cultural Center. Thirteen area photographers, painters, and sculptors display works in this juried show.

The collection is punctuated by large exuberant works by Eric Chavera, María [...]

Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a writer, critic and professor at UNT.  He’s bringing us quotes, fragments, short bursts of insight about art and culture in North Texas.  
“It’s a completely different situation these days.  With the — can I call it technological revolution? — and the advent of the Internet, there’s this idea of global access, and to [...]