Dean Granros’ double guitar quartet with Zacc Harris, Chris Bates and Jay Epstein jump starts Labor Day Weekend, on the Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie series this Thursday, September 1 at 9 pm. It’s a band of all-stars playing unique arrangements and original tunes. Dean Granros studied music theory and composition at the University of […]
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The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal attracts so many artists and so much music that numerous musical events go well beyond the Festival. There are jazz clubs, street musicians, late-night jam sessions, and the Festival’s own TD Jazz All-Year Round concert series. Legendary Montréal hostess Madeleine Murphy gives a monthly jazz party, Les vendredis […]
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For the past five years or so, JT Bates has hosted his long-running “Jazz Implosion” series at the Icehouse in south Minneapolis, continuing the weekly presentation of cutting edge jazz and improvised music that he launched about fifteen years ago in the Clown Lounge at the Turf Club in St. Paul. It is no surprise […]
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Voice and horn have long provided magical pairings throughout the history of jazz, from Billie Holiday/Louis Armstrong to Ella Fitzgerald/Oscar Peterson and into the 21st century with the likes of Roberta Gambarini and Roy Hargrove. This week, the Dakota offers two such collaborations with back to back shows, two nights each, as Jane Monheit and […]
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Two of the Twin Cities favorite jazz sons, saxophonist Pat Mallinger and pianist Bill Carrothers, have appeared often in the Twin Cities since making their respective moves to Chicago and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and building international reputations. Mallinger has led a long-standing quartet with Carrothers on the piano bench, a frequent act at Chicago’s Green […]
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