Jazz Police

© Andrea Canter Just a week ago it was way below zero; now it’s all melting. I think some of the credit goes to the hot jazz in the Twin Cities! And it will be hot enough to keep things above freezing as we head into another week filled with great jazz from one end […]

Both pianist Laura Caviani and guitarist Chris Olson have built reputations as two of the masters of jazz in the Twin Cities and beyond. Laura is renowned not only for her keyboard skills but also as a dedicated educator and far-ranging composer. Chris similarly tops the regional field of jazz guitarists, hosts a long-running monthly gig […]

The Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie series features the Peter Vircks Quartet (with Brian Ziemniak, Ron Evaniuk, Kevin Washington) on January 19. Their latest release, What You Believe Is True, landed on many local “best of the year lists” for 2014. Among his many genre-bending projects, Peter Vircks co-founded Moveable Feast in 1999, dubbed by […]

“His contributions help tie jazz to hip-hop and R&B, reinforcing the perception that jazz is, perhaps, America’s last truly adventurous musical genre, one capable of addressing what is transpiring in the present while also honoring what has come before.” –Preston Jones, Observer After Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove is probably the best known trumpeter on the […]

Jazz and world music delightfully collide this weekend (January 14) in the music of Oudyano at Studio Z in St Paul. The duo of Twin Cities pianist Steven Hobert and Syrian oud player Issam Rafea might seem like the “odd couple”, but the pair have performed several times over the past year with surprisingly beautiful […]