Ted Olsen is a bassist and composer from Saint Paul, MN. He recently self-released an EP "It's Easy to Pretend." In 2017 he released his début record, Joyfire, on Shifting Paradigm records. "The sprawling yet cohesive songcraft on Ted Olsen's new album, "Joyfire," attests to why he won an American Composers Forum award five years […]

In Person and Live Stream options available. While he can often be heard performing selections from his expansive repertoire of jazz and popular classics, Will considers his own compositions to be as integral to his musical personality as his most spontaneous improvisation, each feeding the other as part of a larger sonic picture. Featuring: Omar […]

In Person and Live Stream options available. For the past five years, Andrew has been living and performing in New York City, most often with Gerry Eastman's group at Williamsburg Music Center (https://www.wmcjazz.org).  Now back living in the Twin Cities, Andrew is thrilled to present some brand new music with a stellar quartet featuring: Batume […]

Madeleine Peyroux and Paula Cole play their acclaimed albums Careless Love and This Fire in their entirety for one night only at the Pantages Theatre.

September Jazz Mondays curated by Erik Fratzke. His band Fake Accent charts novel terrain with a focus on small group improvisational dynamics and obsolete consumer electronics, which is influenced by a large swath of disparate 20th century work – composer lannis Xenakis, musique concrete, early hip-hop, doom metal, Conlon Nancarrow, harmolodic funk, “slow cinema," and […]

Pianist/composer and Steinway Artist Connie Han has been described as “a decisively brazen talent ” by All About Jazz. On her imminent album release Iron Starlet, Han manifests “uncompromising vitality” at the piano. Her powerful vision embraces the full evolution of her forebears, like McCoy Tyner, Hank Jones and the Young Lions — the Marsalis Brothers, Kenny Kirkland and Jeff […]

Join Andrew Walesch and his orchestra for an exciting new show celebrating the music of one of America's most iconic songwriters, Cole Porter.

In Person and Live Stream Options available. Northing is a Minnesota-based chamber ensemble that plays composed and improvised music. Formed in 2017, the quintet takes its name from the cartographic term for progress northward. Each of the composer/improviser ensemble members returned to their upper-midwest home after studying music in different ends of the country. The […]