Year: 2016

A relatively new talent leads the opening act, followed by a veteran saxophonist and his headlining quartet for the Memorial Day Weekend edition of Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog, May 28. The action gets underway at 7 pm with the Evan Benidt Trio, followed at 8:30 pm by the Peter Vircks Quartet (with […]

  While we have a large number of “jazz women” in the Twin Cities, only a small handful of instrumentalists lead their own bands. Young saxophonist Lucia Sarmiento is a welcome addition to the local jazz scene, appearing this week on Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie (May 26) with an ensemble of young cohorts, including […]