Month: November 2017

© Andrea Canter Gathering a band of “some of the Twin Cities’ hippest younger players,” young and hip trumpeter Adam Meckler has been leading one of the region’s most innovative big bands for the past five years. A monthly fixture at Jazz Central for about a year, then in a similar time slot at the […]

© Andrea Canter On a stage otherwise occupied by two bands of young lions, Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog curator Steve Kenny wears his bandleader hat on November 4, leading his current quartet through music in preparation for their first recording session. Kicking off the evening will be the Julian Manzara Quartet.   […]