Year: 2017

© Andrea Canter [Portions of this article from Minnesota Hard Bop Collective press release]   On Saturday, November 18, the Minnesota Hard Bop Collective returns to the Boom Room at Boom Island Brewing Company in North Minneapolis, this time to explore the music of iconic tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins. A fluid ensemble led by Jesse Simon, this […]

  © Andrea Canter “Maud Hixson is one of the best, most sensitive and creative song stylists to come out of the pages of the Great American Songbook in the last decade.  She has taste and sophistication, she is full of surprises, and boy can she sing!” –Rex Reed “Hixson’s slightly gauzy tone and breezy […]