The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 23-29
© Andrea Canter It’s the jazziest weekend of the year in the Twin Cities as we move into the final two days of the annual jazz festival, a couple...
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival Day by Day: Saturday, June 24
© Andrea Canter Weather notwithstanding (and the forecast at this writing is iffy), 2017 will likely be remembered as one of the best of the Twin Cities Jazz Festivals...
Festival Profile, Mary Louise Knutson: Working the Magic from Solo to Big Band
© Jon Morgan As fortunate as we are to have an opportunity at each year’s Twin Cities Jazz Festival to hear legends like McCoy Tyner or Ellis Marsalis, along...
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival Day by Day: Friday, June 23
© Andrea Canter Day Two of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival features two free clinics (Emmet Cohen, Anat Cohen) at McNally Smith College of Music, Anat Cohen and her...
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival, Day by Day: Thursday, June 22
© Andrea Canter Officially, the 19th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival launches in and around Mears Park in St Paul on Thursday, June 22, running through June 24, with...
Festival Profile, Emmet Cohen: Sparks Will Fly (Again) at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, June 22
© Jon Morgan For a modern jazz musician, touring with a working band is something of a paradox. On the one hand, it suggests a venture that is arduous...
Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey, and Billie –On Stage at Kingsborough
On Saturday May 6, 2017, the On Stage at Kingsborough series presented a stellar show, Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey, & Billie, starring exciting chanteuse Natalie Douglas, at the...
Holly Hofmann/Mike Wofford Quartet With John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton at the Muckenthaler Jazz Festival
A great assemblage of jazz musicians appeared at Muckenthaler’s 12th Annual Jazz Festival in Fullerton, CA on Thursday, June 1, 2017. There was no doubt these stellar musicians–the Holly...
Hudson at SFJAZZ Creates a Night to Remember
It is fitting that the new collective band Hudson kicked off their tour and CD celebration in San Francisco at SF JAZZ. The City by the Bay has always...
Wayne Horvitz Group At Reverie, June 15
© Andrea Canter On stage at the Icehouse last fall, experimental keyboardist Wayne Horvitz returns to the Twin Cities to perform with Josh Granowski and Davu Seru on the...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 23-29
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival Day by Day: Saturday, June 24
Festival Profile, Mary Louise Knutson: Working the Magic from Solo to Big Band
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival Day by Day: Friday, June 23
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival, Day by Day: Thursday, June 22
Festival Profile, Emmet Cohen: Sparks Will Fly (Again) at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, June 22
Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey, and Billie –On Stage at Kingsborough
Holly Hofmann/Mike Wofford Quartet With John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton at the Muckenthaler Jazz Festival
Hudson at SFJAZZ Creates a Night to Remember
Wayne Horvitz Group At Reverie, June 15
Crash Test: Hoaxer’s Debut Recording (2017, Illicit Productions)
The 2017 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal – Coming June 28-July 8
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield: “Hudson” (Motema Records)
Louis Hayes: Serenade For Horace (Blue Note)
Twin Cities Jazz Festival Announces Full Line-up of Headliners!
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival: McCoy Tyner, Terence Blanchard, Anat Cohen, Bobby Lyle!
