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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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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 7-13
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
As the weather turns very spring-like, it seems we are also adding steam to our sound waves. Maria Schneider returns to conduct the JazzMN Orchestra; pianist Larry Fuller makes his debut in a leading role with his trio in the Dunsmore Room; there's a new installment of the Reich Fest at the Icehouse; and Davu Seru, recently featured in the Strib, returns to Reverie with his No Territory Band. That's the tip of the iceberg. Big Gigs This Week Friday, ...
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Eric Alexander shares many shades of bebop
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander fully embraced the rich and vibrant sound of bebop in his formative years as a jazz player- and continues to help it evolve a quarter-century later. That was the takeaway after his Wednesday, April 5 appearance with the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra at Artis-Naples' Daniels Pavilion. Despite the big name, the band is actually a sextet. They explored a wide range of standard material, finding ways to add their own energetic stamp on it. In each ...
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Jazz this week: Laurence Hobgood, three young St. Louis jazz stars come home, COCA goes "Uptown," and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes a visit from a fine veteran pianist, a homecoming gig for three St. Louis natives who have earned international recognition, a dance production with live music paying tribute to the Harlem Renaissance, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, April 5 Pianist Laurence Hobgood and his trio will perform for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Known to many jazz fans primarily ...
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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 New York
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Jazz in the Village
New York’s The Metropolitan Room welcomes back Paris-Based American vocalist Joan Minor for a 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 ...
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