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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 22-28
As we start the weekend, both music and sidewalks will be sizzling! Fortunately, it also sounds like the music, not the weather, will keep on simmering throughout the rest of the week! And a diverse music week it will be, with blues-driven jazz (from old AQ favorites) honoring the Lowertown Blues Festival at the Black Dog, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 15-21
We have a diverse line-up of jazz this week, including a new CD release from the Dave King Trucking Company, a brief homecoming for Todd Clouser in the company of John Medeski and JT Bates, a return visit from Jon Weber, and a quintet debut from one of our favorite pianists. For starters. Big Gigs This ...
Dave King Trucking Company: Surrounded by the Night
by Vincenzo Roggero
Ha raggiunto fama e notorietà con il super trio The Bad Plus ma Dave King ha partecipato a molte delle formazioni chiave della scena downtown newyorchese ed è tuttora protagonista con progetti all'avanguardia, attenti a percepire e rielaborare tendenze e umori contemporanei. Uno di questi è la band denominata Dave King Trucking Company, al terzo album ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 8-14
The “Dog Days" of Summer are here but locally let's call it the “Cool Cats" Days of Summer, given the vitality of our jazz scene and the heat being generated by young as well as veteran artists. This week is no exception, as we can hear gigs from some of our youngest pros at Studio Z ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 1-7
Coming off a fabulous Twin Cities Jazz Festival, now I'm gearing up for the Iowa City Jazz Festival over the holiday weekend, but I'll be back in time for Chick Corea and Trilogy at the Dakota on Tuesday! If you are staying in town, there will be enough jazz to keep your ears buzzing, and more ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 24-30
The 2016 Twin Cities Jazz Festival is in full swing, filling four outdoor stages and 18 club/bar venues throughout Lowertown and downtown St Paul and beyond. But there's more music around the metro even before Jazzfest ends, with some artists who could be (or have been) headliners at this or any other festival. For complete jazz ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 17-23
We have some impressive visitors this week, a fitting prelude to the Twin Cities Jazz Festival which officially gets underway next Thursday. Big Gigs This Week Friday, June 17. You have to decide between New York Hip and Norwegian Cool: Alto saxophonist David Binneyand his quartet finish off the 8 O'Clock Jump Season at Walker West ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 10-16
Unofficially, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival is underway following the first 'jazz at the library" gig a few days ago. Another library show takes place this weekend in downtown St Paul while other artists and venues warm up stages and audiences as we build not only summer heat but anticipation of that annual musical firestorm. And ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 3-9
Can't you just feel it? Jazz Festival season is in the air, and artists and venues seem determined to put us all in a festive mood, with the best of local and national acts scheduled this month and a great sampling this coming week. Big Gigs This Week Friday, June 3. One of our favorite voices ...
Dave King Trucking Company: Surrounded by the Night
by Glenn Astarita
Celebrated drummer Dave King (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple) bonds fellow Minnesota jazz musicians with like-minded New York artists on the Trucking Company's third release. His drums are constructed with bamboo and other woodgrain materials, which is a novel engineering process by the Milwaukee-based outfit Rat Rod drums. King's resonating sound envelops his fluid and punchy ...
