Month: August 2017

© Andrea Canter It’s a night to celebrate young lions and wizened veterans. The long-running Illicit Sextet returns to the Black Dog on August 12  to headline the Saturday Night Jazz series. The evening opens with the young guns of the Will Schmid Quartet.   Will Schmid Quartet (7 pm) Tonight was actually scheduled as […]

© Andrea Canter Either “the coolest old guy or the oldest cool guy…” — Pioneer Press   A number of years ago, tenor saxophone legend Irv Williams hinted at retirement in his liner notes for That’s All (2004), but clearly that was premature. Three CDs later, the then 88-year-old known fondly as “Mr. Smooth” issued […]