Month: April 2016

Well into a highly successful first season, Walker West Music Academy’s Eight O’Clock Jump concert series continues this weekend with the Atlantis Quartet, on Friday, April 15 (8 pm). The Atlantis Quartet–with Zacc Harris, Brandon Wozniak, Chris Bates and Pete Hennig–is highly regarded as one of the leading ensembles on the Twin Cities modern jazz […]

For a few years, Lima native guitarist/composer Andres Prado augmented the Twin Cities jazz and global music scene, becoming a favorite performer at the Artists Quarter, Dakota, KBEM Winter Jazz Festival and beyond, and teaching at McNally Smith College of Music. When he returned to Peru in 2008, he took much of the sounds of […]