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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 4-10
Fall is not only in the air, it's in the trees, on the street, along the river and up at the lake. Along with our newly arrived cloak of autumn color and cooler nights, we have a colorful variety of jazz artists in our midst, from talented locals to starbright visitors. It's hard to top a ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 27 - October 3
I am gone for a few days and will miss a big weekend of jazz — coming back just in time to catch the second night of Dave Holland's new Prism quartet. But I will miss an increasingly rare performance by Red Planet, a stunning CD release by Lila Ammons, and more! Bu there's always the ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 20-26
Diane Witherspoon returns for a rare hometown gig; Katie Gearty, a jazz band and dance ensemble collaborate on Belmont Hotel; the “galician bagpipe diva" brings improvisation and a wide swath of music to the Dakota where the Great Lady of Soul (Bettye Lavette) returns a night later; Fat Kid Wednesdays is featured on the upcoming two ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 13-19
Two outdoor festivals bring jazz to community audiences this weekend, while a bunch of trombones make for “locally damaging winds" at the Artists Quarter and Tito Puente is the subject of a salute and workshop as Jazz at Studio Z returns for a third season. Doc Severinsen again launches his Midwest tour at the Dakota, where ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 6-12
It's early for fall harvest, but there's sure a cornucopia of music this weekend and through the coming week, from the eclectic Concrete and Grass Festival at Mears Park to a first CD release for one of the area's most exciting new ensembles, a homecoming for harmonicist Clint Hoover, auditions for the Dakota Combo, a rare ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 30-September 5
Sometimes holiday weekends mean a dearth of live music opportunities. Sometimes just the opposite. This is one of those opposite weekends, as the Twin Cities jazz venues will be alive with cool sounds and (gratefully) cool air! And get some rest, too, because there's a lot going on in the coming week for jazz fans! Big ...
JazzMN Orchestra At The Dakota
A rare club performance comes to the Dakota to benefit JazzMN’s educational outreach program. JazzMN patrons have long desired to hear the band outside the concert hall. The Dakota’s intimate setting, the searing band let loose, and Connie Evingson’s fabulous vocal stylings will sate that desire. This atmosphere offers more room for soloists such as Dave ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 23-29
It never fails, the weekend before a major holiday seems packed with community events, concerts, etc. - sort of like a warm-up to the holiday? And the forecast indicates this weekend will be a warm-up in more ways than one. Outdoor festivals continue, with the return of the Freedom Jazz Festival at a new location on ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 16-22
Those “dog days" of summer might be back, but it's the “cats" of live jazz that keep me going as we hurtle toward Labor Day Weekend. This weekend brings Maud Hixson back to Parma, Chris Bates' Red 5 back to the Artists Quarter, the Brad Bellows/Donald Washington Quartet back to the Black Dog, and the vocal ...
Bass Clef: The Artists Quarter Becomes the "Hall of the Mountain King"
Last night (August 15th) was a bonanza evening for lovers of jazz bass. The only drawback - two much-anticipated gigs, some 12 miles apart, at about the same time: At Jazz Central—that little studio with a growing fan base and ever-expanding schedule of innovative projects on the Southeast/Northeast boundary of Minneapolis, two generations of bass veterans ...
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