Author: Andrea Canter

For the past five years or so, JT Bates has hosted his long-running “Jazz Implosion” series at the Icehouse in south Minneapolis, continuing  the weekly presentation of cutting edge jazz and improvised music that he launched about fifteen years ago in the Clown Lounge at the Turf Club in St. Paul. It is no surprise […]

Voice and horn have long provided magical pairings throughout the history of jazz, from Billie Holiday/Louis Armstrong to Ella Fitzgerald/Oscar Peterson and into the 21st century with the likes of Roberta Gambarini and Roy Hargrove. This week, the Dakota offers two such collaborations with back to back shows, two nights each, as Jane Monheit and […]