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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 21-27
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
This changing weather is sure keeping us on our toes. At least the opportunities to hear great jazz are constants, and the coming week offers a lot of ear-smacking options from local talents and former residents to international stars and a living legend. And the Minneapolis-St Paul International Film Festival adds even more jazz to the week. Big Gigs This Week Friday, April 21. The Edina Landmark theater hosts the local opening of a new film about bebop trumpeter Lee ...
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Hear Palmer 2016 Featuring the Archie Shepp Quartet
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CHATEAU PALMER
Music in the Cellar, Music in the Soil It’s Château Palmer’s secret garden, in the shadow of its vineyards, at the heart of its village: the winery. It’s here, in the spring, that the year’s assemblages are expressed for the first time… in music. For, although these primeurs may certainly be tasted, they may also be heard. Surrounded by barrels, the invited jazzmen offer live their visions of the new vintage of Palmer and Alter Ego. Improvisations nourished by several ...
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Always a night with musical surprises
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
You never know just what's in store when the Dan Miller Quartet performs on Tuesday nights at the Roadhouse Cafe in Fort Myers FL. There are always musical surprises, and that's a good thing in this case. That's just what happened on April 17 when the Tuesday night series concluded its season-long run. (The Roadhouse will be closed on Tuesdays from now through the summer). But back to last night. Trumpeter Miller has been working steadily for several years with ...
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Jazz this week: Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, tributes to Oliver Nelson and Ella Fitzgerald, a new weekly jam session, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As Jazz Appreciation Month 2017 moves past the halfway point, the calendar of live jazz and creative music performances here in St. Louis takes a turn toward the historic, with events scheduled to pay tribute to St. Louis' own Oliver Nelson, as well as to Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, April 19 The Saxquest Jazz Orchestra will play the music of saxophonist, composer and St. Louis native Oliver Nelson for ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 14-20
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Snow, sunshine, wind, rain...Welcome to Minnesota Spring, version 3.0. We have a holiday weekend as well as festive music throughout the week, including a CD release from Red Planet with Bill Carrothers in the Dunsmore Room, a “monsterful" evening at the Black Dog, two dazzling, internationally acclaimed performers at the Dakota, seriously improvising ensembles on the calendars at Jazz Central, the Black Dog and Icehouse and more. Big Gigs This Week Friday, April 14. The improvising ensemble Fall of the ...
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Jazz this week: Grégoire Maret & Alicia Olatuja, Peter Evans Septet, Steve Tyrell, Liberation Music Collective, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's a busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with an eclectic selection of visiting performers offering something for listeners with tastes ranging from vintage jazz to mainstream to experimental. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, April 12 Harmonica player Grégoire Maret, with singer and St. Louis native Alicia Olatuja as his featured guest, opens a four-night engagement continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. One of a scant handful of headlining jazz performers on his ...
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An evening of artful exuberance
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
In the right hands, Dixieland jazz is more of a feeling than a specific repertoire. It’s not what you play, so much as how you play it. Bob Leary’s sextet closed out the Charlotte County Jazz Society’s 2016-17 concert season exploring a wide array of vintage material that had toes a-tapping. The band mined quite a few trad jazz classics and early pop hits along with a variety of New Orleans jazz staples at the Cultural Center Theater in Port ...
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Soulful, High-Energy, Jazz Vocalist Joan Minor Brings Her Latest Sparkling Show “April In Paris - Soulful Jazz With Parisienne Sass” To The Bay Area
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Joan Minor
ANGeLiCAS, Redwood City welcomes back Paris-Based American vocalist Joan Minor, for limited return engagement with The Joan Minor Quartet. In five years, the Joan Minor Quartet has established a distinguished musical footprint from touring widely in France and across Africa. Strengths and interests of individual members result in mesmerizing performances, including syncopated rhythms picked up while touring the African continent. Favorites like “Willow Weep For Me" and “Love For Sale," take on new dimensions when performed by these musicians. Anchored ...
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