Jana Nyberg 5 Celebrates New Album in the Dunsmore Room, August 11
© Andrea Canter A frequent performer throughout the Twin Cities on such stages as the Dakota, Vieux Carré, Crooners...
CD Reviews: New Orleans Flotilla, Crooner Abuse, and Hands Across the Baltic/Seine
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Celebratory Finale at Reverie: CD Release for The Living Room Sessions
© Andrea Canter (Note: Article based on press release from Shifting Paradigm Records) After nearly three years, including one...
Various Artists: “The Passion Of Charlie Parker” (Impulse, 2017)
I’ll be honest, when I pulled this one out of the padded envelope, I thought: “It’s the answer to...
Joel Shapira: In Essence (2017)
The guitar, and its distant kin, the piano, are self-contained orchestras. Few other instruments possess their range in dynamics...
Teri Roiger’s “Ghost of Yesterday: Shades of Lady Day” (2017, Dot Time Records)
A steady if under-rated presence on the modern jazz vocal scene, Teri Roiger most recently interpreted one of her...
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...
Hoaxer’s “Crash Test”: Debut CD Release at Vieux Carre’ on June 2
© Andrea Canter “…sure to be one of the more important collaborations of young jazz musicians to emerge from...
Chris Potter Quartet: “The Dreamer Is The Dream”, at the Dakota on May 31
© Andrea Canter “The Dreamer Is the Dream is a testament to Potter’s composing as much as to his...
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....
Red Planet With Bill Carrothers: CD Celebrations in the Dunsmore Room , April 18-19
© Andrea Canter “Carrothers’ feathery textures go nicely with the wave of effects Dean Magraw wrings from his guitar…bassist...
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Presents The Savory Collection
© Sheila Horne Mason Packed away for decades, and for a long time only rumored to exist, the Savory Collection...
Cecile McLorin Salvant: “Woman Child” (Mack Avenue, 2013)
© Andrea Canter Ed note: This review first published on Jazz in June 2013. “If music came with...
A Fresher Breath of Air: Natalia M. King’s “Bluezzin ‘Til Dawn” (Challenge, 2016)
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Curtis Stigers: “One More for the Road” (Concord, 2017)
© Kevin O’Connor “What the world needs now is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my...
Can You Believe It? JC Sanford and Quartet Celebrate CD Release at the Icehouse, January 23
© Andrea Canter “JC Sanford – the go-to music conductor for the forward-looking bands of John Hollenbeck, Joel Harrison,...
Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog Triple Header — Celebrating “Twin Cities Jazz Sampler II,” December 10
In 2014, Illicit Productions, under the leadership of Steve Kenny, compiled and released the first volume of the Twin...
John Raymond’s Real Feels: “Live: Volume One”
“I feel like the album captures the seed of something on its way to becoming more honest and beautiful,...
David Martin and Mike Doolin Bring New Recording to Five Venues, November 28-December 2
Long-time cohorts in Portland, Oregon, guitarists/bassists David Martin and Mike Doolin teamed up on the well-regarded Reflections (2009), and...
