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by Andrea Canter
Welcome to the first in a series of Jazz Near You articles where we raise the awareness of advocacy and catalyst organizations whose efforts are making a positive impact on their local jazz communities. This article was co-written by Don Berryman The Jazz Police website launched in spring 2004, initially intending to ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 6-12
While it was very disappointing to have the Chris Potter Quartet postponed due to the latest East Coast snowstorm, it was gratifying to hear two stellar local bands filling in last week at the Dakota (a last-minute assemblage from Steve Kenny and the Atlantis Quartet). Potter will be rescheduled. Meanwhile we have another week of largely ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 30 - February 5
Our January thaw is apparently over, but live jazz continues at a simmering level as we head into February. Steve Kenny continues to book jazz on Saturdays at the Black Dog (Dean Granros Quartet this weekend), and has just announced similar intentions for Fridays at The Nicollet in Minneapolis starting in March; What Would Monk Do ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 23-29
The Saint Paul Winter Carnival is just getting underway. And it may seem like a winter jazz carnival in the Twin Cities this weekend, most notably with the celebration of the life of broadcaster/jazz wizard Leigh Kamman at the Saint Paul Hotel, just off the epicenter of the Carnival in Rice Park. Also this weekend, the ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 16-22
There seems to be a South/Southeast Minneapolis Jazz Vortex tonight with top musicians performing at the Icehouse, Jazz Central and The Nicollet, all within about a three-mile radius. And there's more music if you spread out just a little bit farther. That's just one night. Over the weekend and into the coming week, we have such ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 9-15
Only one international headliner in town this week (and Bill Carrothers is one of our own!) but there's no dearth of talent from our local roster of artists, and it's a particularly busy weekend — don't become a couch potato as the cold settles in. Jazz will keep your blood flowing, ears glowing — we have ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 2-8
Happy New Year! If this week is any indication, the jazz scene is off to a good start for 2015. It's cold, so never a better time to come indoors and warm up your ears. Big Gigs This Week Friday, January 2. Jazz Central kicks off the 2015 Bridge Series with composer/pianist Jeremy Walker's Small City ...
The Year in Jazz: Twin Cities 2014
I could join others and come up with a top ten recordings list, or a top ten gig list— although it seems that, save Pamela Espeland, I would probably be alone in the media in naming a best of anything in jazz for 2014. Instead, I am going to try to recap what I think are ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 26- January 1
If the survival of jazz in the Twin Cities depended on newspaper coverage, I could stop writing this! Fortunately there's too much good music this week to spend the time pondering the Strib's near total neglect of the genre in its “best of" lists. (Only Pamela Espeland took note of jazz at all, highlighting the merits ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 19-25
For likely the first time ever, the Twin Cities jazz scene will be broadly represented in the release of a CD sampling 13 working bands on Saturday night. It's wedged into an otherwise busy jazz week — Debbie Duncan at Parma, Donald Washington at the Black Dog, Dean Granros at Jazz Central, Doc Severinsen at Orchestra ...
