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Iowa City Jazz Festival Celebrates 25 in 2015
Over the past 12 or more years, I've made it to most of the Iowa City Jazz Festivals. And each time I did not attend, I kicked myself for weeks. It only takes me five hours to drive south from Minneapolis to Iowa City. My 90+ year-old-parents still live there so I have free accommodations (and ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 2-8
Happy New Year! If this week is any indication, the jazz scene is off to a good start for 2015. It's cold, so never a better time to come indoors and warm up your ears. Big Gigs This Week Friday, January 2. Jazz Central kicks off the 2015 Bridge Series with composer/pianist Jeremy Walker's Small City ...
The Year in Jazz: Twin Cities 2014
I could join others and come up with a top ten recordings list, or a top ten gig list— although it seems that, save Pamela Espeland, I would probably be alone in the media in naming a best of anything in jazz for 2014. Instead, I am going to try to recap what I think are ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 26- January 1
If the survival of jazz in the Twin Cities depended on newspaper coverage, I could stop writing this! Fortunately there's too much good music this week to spend the time pondering the Strib's near total neglect of the genre in its “best of" lists. (Only Pamela Espeland took note of jazz at all, highlighting the merits ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 19-25
For likely the first time ever, the Twin Cities jazz scene will be broadly represented in the release of a CD sampling 13 working bands on Saturday night. It's wedged into an otherwise busy jazz week — Debbie Duncan at Parma, Donald Washington at the Black Dog, Dean Granros at Jazz Central, Doc Severinsen at Orchestra ...
Dave King: We do music, so we know music
by Ben Scholz
Ever the emphatic artist, drummer Dave King is most famous as a founding member of the contemporary trio The Bad Plus. Rooted in jazz, The Bad Plus has taken creative music to a new abstract height, examining reinterpretations of works by artists as diverse as Stravinsky, Nirvana and Tears for Fears. However, his re-definition of a ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 12-18
As we get closer to the holidays, the options for live music keep growing. This week, for instance, you can hear one of the finest jazz quintets on the local scene in a too-rare live gig; welcome home (if briefly) one of our most popular, swinging pianists; enjoy productions of holiday brass and holiday songs from ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 5-11
Memories of the Artists Quarter burn a bit brighter this weekend, as former AQ owner Kenny Horst and friends help “bridge" the gap in gigs since the club closed. But there are a lot of gigs this week at the venues that seem to be carrying the torch for live, high flying jazz in the Twin ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 28-December 4
Star-bright visitors help usher in a month of holiday delights this week, while some local heavyweights kick off the weekend. Don't let Black Friday chaos keep you from enjoying some outstanding music! Big Gigs This Week Friday, November 28. Off the map for a while this fall, the Graydon Peterson Quartet roars back at Jazz Central ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 21-27
Thanksgiving isn't here til late next week yet just the options on Saturday night alone give jazz fans a lot to be thankful for. Or frustrated by. How many of these tempting events can one hit in one night? Think of this weekend as one big jazz buffet! And stick around for the desserts that follow ...
