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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 18-24
So it is snowing tonight. April 16th and it is snowing. Waiting for “Up Jumped Spring"? This spring has really hung us up the most, of any I can remember in a long time. Yet I get email from a friend spending April in Paris. OK, enough of that. We are spending April in the Twin ...
Take Five: Studio Vibes, Jazzin Mandolin, 2 Drums, 7 Psalms, and Desert Island Picks
The Star Tribune has a good idea — every Sunday you can read about recent arts happenings from two perspectives, dubbed Pick Six. Two writers — usually a Strib staffer and an invited guest—each select three highpoints in their arts week. Once in a while, a jazz event makes the cut. Not often enough. So I ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 11-17
Those rumors of spring might be true! At least in the jazz neighborhood, it will be a hot weekend with enough sizzle to keep us in melt-down mode through the week! And it is an eclectic week ahead— from CD releases from our “Minnesota Ellington" and “Magica Improvisado," an outstanding outstate gig, and an Orchestra Hall ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 4-10
I am writing under a Winter storm warning. They are not even calling it a Spring storm warning. Driving might be dicey to start out the weekend, but don't be deterred from your focus on great jazz — there is plenty this weekend, worth a slow drive, and by Sunday it should be back to normal, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 28 - April 3
The weather experts say March came in like a Polar Bear and is going out like a Lion. Lions are always welcome in jazz! And there are plenty around in the coming week, from one of our newer resident percussion gurus to a pair of virtuosic trombonists to a good handful of modern improvisers, fleet-fingered guitarists, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 21-27
The weekend gets off to a jazz-busy start, from Orchestra Hall and contemporary trumpet king Chris Botti's second night to little Jazz Central's Bridge series and local jazz trumpet monster Adam Meckler, with a rare performance with his Quintet. Some hot vocals, sizzling guitars, inventive big bands and more fill out the coming week as we ...
Preview: Harrell, Lovano, Cohen, Jensens Head 2014 Iowa City Jazz Festival
It's one of my favorite jazz festivals, and not just because it's in my home town, and not just because it is free and only a 5-hour drive from the Twin Cities. The Iowa City Jazz Festival happens to be one of the gems of summer jazz — a small-town feel, an historic college-campus venue, and ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 14-20
Back to back gigs with one of the area's most notable singers; a long-overdue gig with one of the area's to pianists; and some new music from one of our most prolific composers get the weekend off to a flying start, followed by our popular regional jazz band with some pretty amazing guest vocalists from New ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 7-13
A fast-rising star, an internationally renowned veteran, a young lion...not a bad start to another week of jazz in the Twin Cities. Add to that a significant up-turn in our weather and Joy Spring is in the air! Big Gigs This Week Friday, March 7. Parma continues its Friday night vocal jazz series with one of ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 26 - March 6
It's hard to believe that the Twin Cities Jazz Festival begins in 4 months - is “hot summer" really that close? At ten below, as I write this, summer seems pretty remote. At least there is music to warm our ears and hearts if not our heads and feet! This week, both Patty Peterson and Dave ...
