2018 Twin Cities Jazz Festival: Headliners Announced
Adapted from April 17, 2018 press release The 20th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival will be headlined this year by...
Album Review: Fire Bell, INCENDIOS
Sometimes swinging, and sometimes twisting in a multi-meter tangle, Fire Bell’s new album INCENDIOS is all personality.
Rescheduled! Firebell CD Release, Dakota Combo on April 22/Amethyst Trio and Red 5 on April 21 at the Black Dog
© Andrea Canter A few weeks ago, Steve Kenny’s Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series celebrated its...
In Tribute to Hugh Masekela: Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya at the Dakota, April 16
© Andrea Canter “There are some concerts that change the way you look at music. And then there are...
Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog: Courageous Endeavors and Carter Pearson Quartet
© Andrea Canter When they made their debut at the Artists Quarter six years ago, Courageous Endeavors was a...
Larry Englund: Twin Cities’ “Jazz Hero”
© Janis Lane Ewart Each year, the Jazz Journalists Association seeks nominations from states and local jazz communities for...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 2018
© Andrea Canter Ed. note: The Lead Sheet has been published weekly, now monthly, for the past ten years...
“Full Circle”: Debbie Duncan Live at the Dakota, March 30-31
© Andrea Canter In 1993, when the Dakota was in its first incarnation at Bandana Square in St Paul,...
Atlantis Quartet in the Dunsmore Room, March 27
© Andrea Canter ” [Atlantis Quartet] shifts nimbly from a punk-jazz aesthetic to an ECM-ish #8221;–Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times...
Steve Kenny and Two Hundred Jazz Nights at the Black Dog: Celebrate on March 24!
© Andrea Canter “The fact that the series is hitting this 200th show milestone is all the proof you...
Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog: Ellen Lease/Pat Moriarty Quartet, Roseville Area High School Big Band I on March 17
© Andrea Canter Over the years of their life and musical partnership, Ellen Lease and Pat Moriarty have led...
Three Faces, Jax Ravel Gang at the Black Dog–Tonight!
© Andrea Canter A new collaboration of veterans followed by a quartet of “young lions” fills the schedule for...
Charles Lloyd at 80: Four Stunning Nights at the Dakota, March 8-11
“I am still searching to find the sound. It is my path. I call myself a ‘sound seeker.’ The...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 2018
© Andrea Canter [Note: New posts monthly with updates weekly. Post updated 3-30-18] March kicks off with Delfeayo Marsalis...
Central Standard Time on The illicit Jazz Workshop.
Central Standard Time, on March 2 (8:00 pm) Under the leadership of Saturday Night Jazz at the Black...
Jazz in the Target Atrium: “At the Piano” on February 23 with Four Local Titans
© Andrea Canter Jeremy Walker’s Jazz in the Target Atrium series continues on Friday, February 23 (8 pm) with...
My Next Retirement: Chord Changes at Jazz Police
© Andrea Canter I’m not yet 70 and already I have retired three times. And since Minneapolis Schools became...
Sam Miltich Quartet, “Elevator Jazz” at the Black Dog, February 17
© Andrea Canter About a year ago, guitar whiz Sam Miltich and elder statesman saxophonist Dave Karr led a...
John Raymond and Real Feels on a “Joy Ride” to the Icehouse, February 12
© Andrea Canter “…there’s a sense of sonic evenhandedness reflecting both the instrument’s depth of character and the artist’s...
Jazz Women All Stars in Crooners Lounge, February 11
© Andrea Canter A project initiated and directed by Twin Cities’ vocalist Patty Peterson, The Jazz Women All-Stars debuted...
