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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 27-December 3
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
We may be facing the darkest days of the year, but we are also facing one of the most jazz-packed weeks of the year. There's no intentional festival or organized music conspiracy, yet making choices, especially Saturday, will make your ears spin. But it's all good. Without the travel or expense, we can experience what might be normal for jazz fans in the Big Apple. So rest up on Thanksgiving and have an extra slice of pie—and let the jazz-a-thon ...
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Jazz this week: Jeremy Davenport, Perihelion Quartet, John King, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
While the biggest-name jazz musician visiting St. Louis this week actually is an expat playing his annual homecoming gig, there nevertheless is a tasty selection of jazz shows from local performers available for your pre- and post-Turkey Day consumption. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, November 25 The Perihelion Quartet, featuring pianist Greg Mills and friends, will offer free jazz and improvisation at the Tavern of Fine Arts, while over in Grand Center, the regular Wednesday gigs are in effect, ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 20-26
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Colder weather, darker days, holiday shopping—we are getting into Minnesota Winter mode. But we do not hibernate here— we go out and enjoy live music! And we have plenty of options between now and Thanksgiving, with an ever-increasing number of “holiday" gigs appearing on the jazz calendar. This weekend, enjoy some favorite vocalists, local as well as internationally acclaimed honorary Minnesotan Karrin Allyson; some of our local legends take on the tunes and attitudes of Thelonious Monk; JazzMN Orchestra takes ...
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Jazz this week: Omaha Diner, Eliane Elias, Stanley Clarke, Susan Werner, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's shaping up to be another busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a handful of visiting headliners in town at various venues, a couple of homecoming shows featuring former St. Louisans, and a full schedule of performances from local players as well. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, November 18 The quartet Omaha Diner, featuring guitarist Charlie Hunter, saxophonist Skerik, drummer Bobby Previte, and trumpeter Eric Bloom, makes their St. Louis debut in the first ...
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Rap Legend Ice-T and Jazz Trumpeter Ron McCurdy Debut The Langston Hughes Project At The Barbican On November 21, 2016 At 7:30pm!
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Nu Jazz Publicity
Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ creative masterpiece, the epic twelve-part jazz poem: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A homage in verse, music, and multi-media to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 1960s, Ask Your Mama evokes Hughes’ life and times and a message that resonates as strongly ...
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Jazz Clarinetist Rick Bogart: From New Orleans To New York
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Rick Bogart Appearing Weekly at the New York Yankees Steakhouse! NEW YORK YANKEES STEAKHOUSE Presents: The Rick Bogart Trio Sundays: JAZZ BRUNCH - 12 noon to 3pm Fridays: 5 pm to 9 pm The Steakhouse of The New York Yankees is located at 7 West 51st St., across from Rockefeller Center. Every Sunday two tickets for next season's hometown games will be given away! About New York Yankees Steakhouse From the finest 21-day USDA ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 13-19
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
We're starting to see holiday ads and decorations, so we might as well getting into the spirit of the season—and there's plenty of jazz to add to the celebrations. This week brings the final two nights of the Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret with jazz, global music, and genre-defying new works at Studio Z; more great music on the Friday Night Jazz at the Nicollet and Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series; the next installment of the 8 O'Clock ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 6-12
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Still no hard frost? Perhaps the heat of the local jazz scene is keeping winter at bey! Probably we can not hope for many more relatively warm days, but we can surely count on a string of hot nights thanks to gigs, concerts, mini-fests and CD releases in the Twin Cities in the coming week! Big Gigs This Week Friday, November 6. Over the past decade, since completing studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Graydon Peterson has been one ...
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