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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“…not only a superb technician and improviser, but also above and beyond this, a composer and conceptualist who can maintain the overall line and the DNA of the song in everything he plays. A musician’s musician.” —Sting “Gillian Margot is a singer whose voice has clarity, heft, a whole spectrum of color, and body — […]
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” [Atlantis Quartet] shifts nimbly from a punk-jazz aesthetic to an ECM-ish sensitivity.”–Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times One of the many things we can give thanks for this weekend is the proliferation of topflight jazz in the Twin Cities. Over the past decade and more, ensembles that grew from local talents have gained notice on the […]
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