John Wooley

[dropcap]Back[/dropcap] in 1949 and 1950, the celebrated jazz saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker recorded a pair of albums that became the biggest sellers of his career....

[dropcap]I’ve[/dropcap] known Billy Parker for maybe 30 years now. I’ve been around him in all sorts of situations, and I’ve watched what he usually does...

[dropcap]An[/dropcap] attentive reader might wonder why I’ve now done two columns in a row that have to do with the city of Claremore. Maybe it’s...

[dropcap]With[/dropcap] all thanks to Vida and Dan Schuman, respectively publisher/founder and president/editorial director of Oklahoma Magazine, I wrote my first two entries for what would...

[dropcap]Thirty[/dropcap] years ago, give or take a few months, a new double-record album appeared on the shelves of Oklahoma music stores. Featuring a trippy line-drawing...

[dropcap]According[/dropcap] to Dr. Tommy Poole, noted saxophonist and former director of jazz studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, a new NSU Jazz’Tet disc called...

[dropcap]In[/dropcap] her years as a leading light on the Tulsa music scene, vocalist and songwriter Cindy Cain has never called attention to the fact that...

[dropcap]On[/dropcap] May 18, the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum Facebook page shared the image of a telegram that had been sent to Chester Gould, Tracy’s creator,...

[dropcap]Exactly[/dropcap] one year ago, this space was devoted to a report on veteran Tulsa-based singer-songwriter Don White, who, after decades of performing, touring, recording and...

I thought I was using myths to write a story. Turned out that I used a story to write a myth. – S.E. Hinton, from her...