A Cutting Edge Thursday: The Music of Low, Seru & Ewart, Pete Hennig
© Andrea Canter The Twin Cities Jazz Community boasts a multi-generational affinity for modern approaches to improvisation. On Thursday, May 25, several of these forces converge on the...
Newark-Born Saxophonist Wayne Shorter Honored at NJPAC
From April 20 to 23, 2017, Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) held Wayne Shorter Weekend in tribute to one of Newark’s own, iconic saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter. This...
Maud Hixson and Rick Carlson Bring Judy Garland to the Dunsmore Room, May 23
“Hixson’s slightly gauzy tone and breezy phrasing evoked cool-school singers of the 1950s such as June Christy, Chris Connor and Anita O’Day. Yet there was nothing historic nor nostalgic...
American Reverie CD Release at Hook and Ladder, May 20
© Andrea Canter About two years ago, prolific bandleader and guitarist Zacc Harris debuted a new trio, American Reverie, featuring Harris, Matt Peterson on and Lars-Erik Larson on drums....
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 19-26
© Andrea Canter It seems that we’re getting a break from our perfect weather, but music around the Twin Cities continues nonstop. Rain or shine, we get the best...
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield: “Hudson” (Motema Records)
If ever there was a fusion armada, it would have to be these guys. Three veterans and a relative newbie: Jack Dejohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski, and John Scofield...
Louis Hayes: Serenade For Horace (Blue Note)
Blue Note Records has given a home to arguably the greatest recording artists in jazz for many decades. Like all major record labels, particularly those devoted to so-called...
Twin Cities Jazz Festival Announces Full Line-up of Headliners!
© Andrea Canter Ed. note: Portions of this article are taken from the May 10th press release from the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Twin Cities Jazz Festival’s Executive...
The Heart of the Brazilian Soul Rocks the Bay Area
© Ken Vermes The stunning debut of “The Girl From Ipanema” over fifty years ago alerted Americans about a new music, billed with seductive power from an unknown land...
Karrin Allyson Shines at Catalina’s
Five-time Grammy-nominated vocalist, composer and pianist Karrin Allyson brought her quartet to Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles for a three-day engagement March 24-26. We attended Saturday, March 25th. ...
A Cutting Edge Thursday: The Music of Low, Seru & Ewart, Pete Hennig
Newark-Born Saxophonist Wayne Shorter Honored at NJPAC
Maud Hixson and Rick Carlson Bring Judy Garland to the Dunsmore Room, May 23
American Reverie CD Release at Hook and Ladder, May 20
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 19-26
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield: “Hudson” (Motema Records)
Louis Hayes: Serenade For Horace (Blue Note)
Twin Cities Jazz Festival Announces Full Line-up of Headliners!
The Heart of the Brazilian Soul Rocks the Bay Area
Karrin Allyson Shines at Catalina’s
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival: McCoy Tyner, Terence Blanchard, Anat Cohen, Bobby Lyle!
