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Connie Evingson: Sweet Happy Life
by Nicholas F. Mondello
There are surprises galore and much to be enjoyed in Sweet Happy Life, from fine Minneapolis-based vocalist, Connie Evingson. Perhaps the most immediate of those discoveries, even before a listen, is the canon of work from Grammy and Academy Award-winning lyricist, Norman Gimbel, to whose oeuvre this CD is a tribute.With Sweet Happy Life ...
The U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors in Twin Cities
The Big Band Scene on KBEM Jazz 88 welcomes the Army Jazz Ambassadors to the Twin Cities this fall. The Ambassadors from Washington, DC are the premier touring big band of the U. S. Army, and one of the finest big bands in the world today. Since its formation in 1969, the 19-member ensemble has appeared ...
Enthusiastically Disorganized Music
Why is it that, having found a perfect quote, I can never find it again when I want to quote it myself? Sitting on a plane recently, reading (laboriously) through The Rise of a Jazz Art World by Paul Lopes, I found what feels like the perfect -if really inaccurate—phrase to describe jazz, particularly for those ...
Classic Jazz Artists In New Book By Renown Photographer Bob Willoughby
Bob Willoughby was one of the great photographers of classic Hollywood and its stars; his photos throughout the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were seen in Look, Life, and Harper’s Bazaar. Willoughby was also a jazz lover who took hundreds of photos of the burgeoning California Jazz scene and its most pivotal and innovative magicians. For the ...
Cory Wong Releases "Quartet/Quintet" On April 23, Showcasing His Jazz Diversity
It’s been said, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” That just changed with the double disc set by Twin Cities jazz guitarist Cory Wong, scheduled for release on April 23, 2012. The name of the disc itself encourages a curiosity: Quartet/Quintet. Can’t decide on listening to a quartet or a quintet? This two-disc ...
Todd Clouser's A Love Electric Touring Spain - Midwest through September
Ropeadope Records Artist, guitarist Todd Clouser continues touring behind his new release, the quintet's self titled debut, which the Philadelphia Inquirer recently called “A gem of an album, Clouser spices the All- American vibe of Bill Frisell with some Jimi Hendrix Fire, 3.5/4." The exhilarating modern jazz based quartet, with its roots in electric era Miles ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, April 22-28
Some favorites return, and we celebrate another local CD release. Not a bad way to spend a holiday weekend and hopefully a more spring-like week. Highlights, Last Week Jazz Is Now, Nownet at the Loring Theater (April 15). Jeremy Walker's swan song as music director of his nonprofit Jazz Is Now was an artistic blowout if ...
Music Matters
And in case we forget that music matters, there's an annual reminder staged by the MacPhail Center for Music in the form of their Music Matters Luncheon fundraiser. One of the nation's largest community music schools, serving well over 8,000 students from infants to centenarians, MacPhail is also one of the Twin Cities' oldest arts institutions, ...
Toddd Clouser's A Love Electric (Ropeadope Records) Coast to Coast to Mexico Tour Apr 13 - May 9
Guitarist and Composer, Ropeadope Records Artist Todd Clouser takes his exhilarating modern jazz and groove based quintet, 'A Love Electric' back on the road for dates from Cali's Bay Area to an NYC debut, and a Philadelphia slot opening for DJ Logic. With tours of Latin America and the US behind them, and summer dates in ...
Todd Clouser Announces US Tour: "A Love Electric" out February 15 on Ropeadope
TODD CLOUSER Announces Midwest Tour As Momentum Builds For New Record, A LOVE ELECTRIC out February 15 on ROPEADOPE Listen to Todd Clouser's rendition of Harry Nilsson's “One" Listen to Todd Clouser's original “Autumn City Portrait" featuring Steven Bernstein Minneapolis-by-way-of-Baja, Mexico-based guitarist Todd Clouser and his collective, A Love Electric, will take their energy-driven jazz rock ...
