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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, Festival Edition! June 19-27
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, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 12-18
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 ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 5-11
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 ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 29 - June 4
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 ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 22-28
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 — ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 15-21
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 ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 8-14
Some jazz giants visit this week (Tim Berne, Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez), and the weekend is filled with veterans and rising stars across the metro. Spring is here, and we're warming up for big sounds this summer. Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 8. A Twin Cities favorite for the past decade, Red Planet plays less ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 1-7
Green leaves, crab apple blossoms, tulips and a good be-bop riff— you have to love spring in Minnesota, once it gets here. Can't use the weather as an excuse these days— it isn't too cold, there's no snow and ice, and it isn't too hot yet! Take your ears out for a spin: Some veteran ensembles ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 24-30
The Saint Paul Art Crawl will bring extra crowds to Lowertown this weekend; jazz in the neighborhood and nearby will keep the artful vibe going long after dark. Jazz and the return of our spring weather will add to the warming trend throughout the metro as well, with weekend visits from Tuck & Patti, Bob Mintzer ...
Twin Cities Jazz Festival Announces 2015 Headliners!
St. Paul, MN — Six-time Grammy winner Dr. John and the Nite Trippers, the Araya Orta Latin Jazz Quartet Featuring Othello Molineaux, Festival Artistic Director Francisco Mela's new Jazz Machine with special guest Nicholas Payton, 2014 Monk Trumpet Competition winner Marquis Hill and an all-star quartet featuring Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Lionel Loueke and Eric Harland ...
