Year: 2016

For a number of years, guitarist Chris Olson has led “The Chris Olson Project” at the Black Dog on the second Tuesday of the month. His “projects” have varied from duos with a variety of jazz artists to trios, such as his collaboration with Jay Epstein and Chris Bates as “Framework.” His September installment on […]

 It’s not as if Dean Magraw, Bryan Nichols or Jay Epstein has extra time to start a new band. Each of these musicians is already overbooked in the Twin Cities area — Magraw with Red Planet, Source Code, and duos with Butch Thompson, Steven Hobert, Davu Seru and Eric Gravatt; Nichols with his Nichols Bates […]