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...
Crash Test: Hoaxer’s Debut Recording (2017, Illicit Productions)
© Andrea Canter [Ed. note: This review is taken from the CD release promotion article previously published on Jazz Police.] At the end of 2015, four young collegians spent...
The 2017 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal – Coming June 28-July 8
One of the world’s largest and best-known jazz festivals, the Montreal Jazz Festival, officially known as Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, will be hosting the 38th edition from...
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield: “Hudson” (Motema Records)
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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...
Greg Ward Quintet at the Icehouse, Monday April 3
© Jon Morgan Since his last appearance in the Twin Cities as part of drummer Mike Reed’s People Places and Things quintet, saxophonist Greg Ward has been restlessly engrossed...
A “Colossus” Quartet at Reverie, March 30
© Andrea Canter A week after the Peter Schimke Trio prompted standing ovations, Steve Kenny’s Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie brings together another ensemble with firepower to spare. Dubbed...
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival: McCoy Tyner, Terence Blanchard, Anat Cohen, Bobby Lyle!
© Andrea Canter Twin Cities Jazz Festival Director Steve Heckler announced four headliners for the free 19th annual festival, to be held in and near Mears Park in St....
Davu Seru’s No Territory Band — Jazz at Studio Z, March 11
© Andrea Canter Zacc Harris’ series of creative jazz concerts, Jazz at Studio Z, continues on March 11 with the No Territory Band, lead by drummer Davu Seru and...
Bobby Watson’s MVP Quartet at the Dakota and Vieux Carre’, February 20-21
© Andrea Canter One of the first national ensembles to play at the original Dakota in St. Paul, Bobby Watson’s Horizon was also one of the most respected jazz...