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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 24-30

July 24, 2015

It seems like we have a jazz festival every weekend this summer—if not an event so named, at least there are enough concerts and gigs to choose from that it seems like an endless celebration. This week we celebrate CD releases, homecomings and reunions; there's at least one “jazz festival" in the region, and Sommerfest brings ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 17-23

July 18, 2015

Happy to report there is now another venue with significant jazz bookings to include in the Lead Sheet— Vieux Carré opened earlier this week; the websiteis up and running, and the club calendar is pretty much filled for July with music five nights per week, jazz at least two of those nights and often more. Add ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 10-16

July 11, 2015

Whew, back to normal after two long weekends of jazz festivals. Although what is “normal" on the local jazz scene? There seem to be more and more options, even as some old favorites disappear. We mourn the decision to discontinue music at Fireside Pizza, another casualty of ASCAP/BMI licensing fees. Hopefully Denny Malmberg and Charmin Michelle ...

News: Music Industry

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 3-9

July 2, 2015

Is it difficult to come down from a jazz festival high? I'll let you know when I come down. After three solid days of music at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, I am off to another three-day extravaganza, the Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 2-4), where I expect to see a couple dozen Twin Citians as ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, Festival Edition! June 19-27

June 19, 2015

It's here! The 2015 Twin Cities Jazz Festival gets underway in phases, officially opening on June 25 but preliminary events began a few days ago with Jazz at the Library gigs in St. Paul and some “Music on the Move" sets this weekend. Format for the Lead Sheet will be a little different for this week, ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 12-18

June 12, 2015

Unofficially, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival gets underway in the coming week with the 5th annual Jazz in the Library series of pre-fest gigs in three Saint Paul community libraries. Both Saint Paul and Minneapolis turn up the heat a notch across assorted venues offering a broad array of that hard-to-define genre we call jazz. Surely ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 5-11

June 6, 2015

Another weekend of hard-to-decide choices for live jazz followed by a week of local favorites. Summer is here, and our festival countdown stands at three weeks... actually less counting some popular pre-fest gigs starting June 16. (We'll preview those starting next week!) This weekend some beloved veterans and young lions share the attention, and in some ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 29 - June 4

May 30, 2015

There's what might be dubbed a mini-jazz fest in St. Paul's Lowertown this weekend— warming up the neighborhood for the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, only 4 weeks away! (And with no Saints home game, parking should be “normal".) The coming week also brings a parade of stars into the Dakota, offering an alternative to the Rolling ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 22-28

May 22, 2015

Seems we were just shivering and complaining about our cool spring, and here it is, Memorial Day Weekend and (finally) some warm sunshine. New challenges await, of course, like getting the garden planted, summer vacation reservations confirmed, and— figuring out how to contend with parking and crowds as the Saints new ballpark opens in Lowertown — ...

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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 15-21

May 16, 2015

In Northeast Minneapolis, it's Art-a-Whirl weekend. In the Twin Cities metro area, it might be dubbed Jazz-a-Whirl. Actually that title might fit every weekend here. This weekend is the final gig for former resident bassist Michael O'Brien's current visit, a CD release for JoAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske's “Jazz in the Lobby Bar," a “comeback" of ...