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Jazz Appreciation Month: From the Sublimated to the Ridiculous, All in Good Music
April is Jazz Appreciation Month across the country, and special events can be found from small town theaters to major city venues. We're fortunate to live in an area that not only sports a couple of those major venues, but a wide range of jazz across predictable and unlikely settings. And it's hard to imagine more ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 5-11
Some of the excitement this weekend takes place across state lines as the annual Eau Claire Jazz Festival welcomes hometown hero Geoffrey Keezer and Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, but there's plenty of hot competition right here, with the multi-set 60th birthday party for avant-garde leader John Zorn at the Walker, Happy Apple on a rare weekend ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz This Weekend and Beyond
I'm off for a few days and will augment the weekly suggestions, but for now, here's the jazzy happenings for the coming weekend and beyond.... Hopefully our first spring-like weekend of the season? Highlights This Week Friday, March 29. Once in a while there's a special gig at Jazz Central on a Friday night. Tonight, veteran ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 22-28
A night of cabaret, a weekend of cutting edge jazz, and a big band world premiere all contribute to an eclectic week in the Twin Cities jazz community. And maybe spring will finally make an appearance? Big and Recommended Gigs Friday, March 22. Some of the area's top jazz vocalists are active members of the Twin ...
Jazz Face: Nakatani in St. Paul
Tatasuya Nakatani is a mystic of percussion. A native of Osaka based in Easton, PA, he's not only a master of the standard trapset, but a genie who summons other worlds from a formidable arsenal of intended and unintended “instruments" - gongs, cymbals, sticks, mallets, bowls, boxes, bows - pretty much anything one can hold and ...
Keeping Jazz Alive: One Weekend at a Time?
Sometimes I wonder if I am just fooling myself (and anyone who asks) that jazz is really alive in the Twin Cities. When I am at Jazz Central, the Artists Quarter, Black Dog or Studio Z, for example, the vitality of the music is beyond question. Veterans like Donald Washington, George Cartwright, Peter Schimke, Milo Fine, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 8-14
Outside of the Jazz Festival weekend in June, it is hard to imagine a more jazz-packed, star-studded weekend than March 8-11. And what is really cool about this weekend is that the jazz events are spread out all over the Metro area. Maybe not too convenient if you want to hit it all, but evidence that ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 1-7
Spring is here. Soon. I can tell. It's not just the pale moon that excites me...or even the longer days. The quality of light has changed as the angle of the sun moves. The birds are chirping in more upbeat choruses, undoubtedly anticipating the return of their “snowbird" cohorts. Even 20 degrees feels somehow warmer than ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 22-28
Two of the world's premiere guitarists happen to be in the Twin Cities at the same time.... At the same price. Free. Both Mike Stern and Bill Frisell turn up on college campuses this weekend, making this perhaps the best “free" jazz weekend of the year outside of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. But it is ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 15 - 21
Extending Valentine's Day into the weekend? There's lots of options, some perhaps more romantic than others, depending on what revs up your heartbeat! Be it Tin Pan Alley or garage band grooves, it's all happening here in the Twin Cities. Big Gigs This Week Friday, February 15. The Black Dog always hosts musicians who take an ...
