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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 14-20
We really don't need the drastic plunge in temperatures to remind us that the holidays are coming. Thanks to the ever-impatient media, we have daily (hourly?) hints of the sounds, sights and tastes of the season. On the plus side, it seems more and more special music events are filling the rest of the 2014 calendar, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 7-13
As we settle into standard time, shorter days, cooler nights, and the beginning of the holiday media blast, it's comforting to have our favorite jazz venues running at full tilt. This weekend includes the final three nights of the Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret at Studio Z, a favorite voice of jazz in a rare vocal night ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 31-November 6
Some spooky jazz and Halloween fun kick off a busy music weekend that includes the return of Soul Cafe and What Would Monk Do. In the coming week, Hiromi makes her quasi-annual pilgrimage to the Dakota, Mike Lewis returns to the Icehouse, and Zeitgeist launches their annual New Music Cabaret. That's just the start of the ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 24-30
The week before Halloween and don't be spooked out if you hear some jazz goblins nearby! The options this weekend and over the following nights are scarily good. Big Gigs This Week Friday, October 24. One of the Twin Cities most prolific composers and a frequent bandleader, Jeremy Walker rounds up a quartet of frequent cohorts ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 17-23
I don't remember when we last had three CD releases from top area jazz artists on the same weekend! And that's just the beginning of a very hot week on the Twin Cities jazz scene. Some tough choices must be made! Fortunately, you can't go wrong. Big Gigs This Week Friday, October 17. Swinging hot club ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 19-25
The fall jazz harvest is in full swing, and the coming week show no signs of a slow-down, from New York guitarist Joel Harrison at Jazz Central to Chick Corea and Vigil and The Cookers at the Dakota, as well as local highlights— the return of Monk in Motian, Connie Evingson at Parma, Mary Louise Knutson ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 12-18
Seems everything has cooled down but live music in the Twin Cities! All Originals Jazz Series first season has ended, but curator Steve Kenny will soon start up Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog; curator Zacc Harris hosts a special Jazz at Studio Z this weekend while gearing up for a fourth season starting later ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 5-11
After four days at the Detroit Jazz Festival over Labor Day, I reached two firm conclusions: 1) The Detroit Jazz Festival is probably the world's best free jazz extravaganza as well as the largest; and 2) you don't need to go to a festival in Detroit (or Chicago) to hear the best jazz musicians in the ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, August 29-September 4
Jazz does not take a holiday - but music makes the holiday weekend a real celebration. Labor Day typically marks the end of summer, return to school and cooler nights, but no reason to expect a cool-down of jazz offerings in the Twin Cities. Some special shows this weekend lead up to one of Saint Paul's ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 15-21
When the Artists Quarter closed at the end of 2013, many area musicians had to scramble to find new venues for their music. Slowly, we're seeing more and more of our AQ favorites on the schedules of smaller clubs—the Black Dog, Studio Z, Jazz Central, The Nicollet, Cafe Maude, the Icehouse and more. One of the ...
