This perfect trio features: CHRIS BATES, bassist // BRYAN NICHOLS, piano // JAY EPSTEIN, drums

After a warm up from infrequent dancing and or review of some classic swing moves with the Uptown Swing dance company expect to turn up the heat with The Red Hot Django Peppers as they burn up the Hot Club Swing style popularized by Django Reinhardt.

Ricky Peterson is best known for his now 20 year association with saxophone legend David Sanborn and for having, produced, written and played keyboards for Prince on and off since his early days on the Twin Cities scene (perhaps most notably producing and arranging the song "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"). Playing on David […]

Free clinics presented by Emily Brewer, Chris Dickhaus, Simon Harding, Jimmy Jensen & Pete Whitman   On site repairs, horn assessments, and mouthpiece refacing.   Special guest exhibitor Schmitt Music. 

Liz Draper (upright bass) and Tasha Baron (piano) are a tightly knit duo drawing heavy influence from Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Eric Dolphy.

Leading his all-star big band packed with local sidemen legends, showman Andrew Walesch kidnaps the Blue Eyes tradition and makes it his own in his jazz-bent Sinatra revue that jams venues all over the Midwest and beyond with a uniquely cross-generational audience.

8:30pm Big Homie LA Buckner - Drums, Jacob Dodd - Keys, Jalyn Spencer - Bass 7:00 Opening Set - JazzINK Young Artists' Showcase Blue Ox Trio with Hannah Harder - Tenor Sax, Zach Studdiford - Piano, Andy Meyer - Bass,  Jack Schabert - Drums

Live and Live Stream options available. The Pete Enblom quintet will be performing a variety of original tunes and jazz classics arranged for trombone and tenor sax plus rhythm section. The group includes Clay Pufahl on tenor sax, Pete Enblom on trombone and a rhythm section of Mac Santiago on drums, the pianist Dale Alexander […]

WEEK #4 FEATURING: SET I: CODY MCKINNEY’S GRAPHIC SCORE ENSEMBLE ALBUM RELEASE SET II: DAMEUN STRANGE