As the year winds down, it seems our music is revving up. There’s holiday magic on stages throughout the metro as well as some special nods to icons Ahmad Jamal and George Gershwin, and some pretty amazing visitors including John Raymond and Joey DeFrancesco. Big Gigs This Week Friday, December 2. Tonight at Jazz Central […]
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The Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie series continues this week (December 1) with the Joe Mayo Quartet (9 pm). This band features four youngish veterans who keep busy with a number of metro ensembles as sidemen and as leaders– saxophonist Joe Mayo, guitarist Zacc Harris, bassist Chris Bates, and drummer Pete James Johnson. Saxophonist Joe […]
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Only open for a year, the Dunsmore Room in Crooners Lounge in Fridley, MN–just north of Minneapolis– is quickly becoming one of the Midwest’s pre-eminent venues for both local and global jazz artists who regularly fill the intimate space with creative jazz and more. It’s perhaps then no surprise that the area premiere of award-winning […]
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Long-time cohorts in Portland, Oregon, guitarists/bassists David Martin and Mike Doolin teamed up on the well-regarded Reflections (2009), and in 2014, repeated the collaboration on Tough Commute. (Once Martin relocated to the Twin Cities a few years ago, their collaboration required a “tough commute.”) The duo didn’t wait so long this time, as their new […]
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SFJAZZ, now in its fifth season in its “new” building, continued its spectacular series of fall concerts with a hastily created memorial concert for the late Bobby Hutcherson, as well as a stunning tribute to Miles Davis by the SFJAZZ Collective and a thrilling series of shows by the Joe Lovano/Chucho Valdes Quintet. Tribute to […]
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