Jazz Police

Even for Minnesota, our recent weather has created a wild ride, from way below zero to over 40 above, and maybe our music reflects this as well — in this coming week, you can hear it all, from Bourbon Street to Gershwin to the Bad Plus, from our veteran elders to our youngest upstarts. What […]

  About a year ago, four prodigiously talented college students found a good way to spend their winter break– play original music together as Hoaxer. Peter Goggin, Will Kjeer, Charlie Lincoln and Edmund Catlin quickly found gigs and an audience, and have since found gigs at Jazz Central, the Black Dog, Icehouse and beyond — […]

“It’s about as badass as highbrow gets.” — Rolling Stone After 17 years of collaboration, global touring, acclaimed recordings, even controversy as to their relationship to “real jazz,” The Bad Plus still ranks as one of the most popular genre-bending ensembles in modern music. With their unique approach to original composition and arrangements of pop […]

 “I am the music. I am my first instrument and the music is in me” –Rodney Ruckus Drummer Rodney Ruckus has been one of the busiest performers around the Twin Cities over the past year. His second major gig in three days (he led three ensembles at Reverie on December 15), Rodney brings The Ruckus […]

The best antidote to snow and subzero temperatures is incendiary music, and the music of percussionist Babatunde Lea flows like lava! With his sextet, Lea performs on the Jazz at Studio Z series on December 17, with a live podcast recording/interview at 6 pm followed by the concert at 7 pm. One of the highlights […]