On a cold blustery winter night at SFJAZZ (February 19), guitarist John Scofield threw up a solid, “perfect game” piece of American-inspired music that was the antidote to the winds of winter and the blast of politics rattling our peace of mind. It is not our imagination that our culture, and music in particular, is […]
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© Andrea Canter “She evokes Vaughan when she releases a taste or two of lush vibrato. She sounds a bit like Betty Carter, swooping up or down between notes to make a point; like Ella Fitzgerald, when she revels in an up-tempo groove. Yet these seem less like references than inherited traits…It’s enough to make […]
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© Andrea Canter Ed note: This review first published on Jazz Police.com in June 2013. “If music came with a ‘100% natural and organic” sticker, this CD would have it on the cover. This is music of the human heart. Undiluted. Timeless.” Ted Gioia (liner note, Woman Child) In the 2010 Thelonious Monk International […]
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© Andrea Canter One of the first ensembles to appear in the Dunsmore Room at Crooners Lounge after the space opened in December 2015, the Mary Louise Knutson Trio has proven to be one of the intimate listening room’s most popular ensembles. Returning on Monday, February 20 (7 pm), the trio is led by one […]
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© Andrea Canter One of the first national ensembles to play at the original Dakota in St. Paul, Bobby Watson’s Horizon was also one of the most respected jazz bands of the 1980s-90s. Saxophonist Watson, who spent some of his youth in the Twin Cities, has returned a few times since, including at the 2010 […]
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