“…performs with delicate grace…using just the right touch to evoke a variety of textures” (Mark F. Turner, All About Jazz). Adding to a week of stellar jazz piano, one of the old Artists Quarter favorites Rick Germanson makes his debut in the Dunsmore Room of Crooners Lounge on Monday, August 22 at 7 pm. Nearly […]
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Call it “Jazz Piano Week” in the Twin Cities! Two visitors and one local hero play in the Dunsmore Room, a long-time favorite is at the Dakota, and one of the most creative among local artists brings a quartet to Vieux Carré. Other hot tickets include the 100th “Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog”, […]
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Curator and trumpeter Steve Kenny likes to keep track of things, especially such things as the number of weeks his Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series has been running without a break. And he is no stranger to long-running gigs as a founding member of the Illicit Sextet (launched in the late 80s […]
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A few months ago I wrote about Don Was just as he was assuming command of Blue Note Records in the wake of the death of Bruce Lundvall. At the time the artistic direction seemed fairly nebulous. It could have gone either way: Would the pop and soul producer steer the legendary House of Jazz […]
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“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 few months and particularly over the past few weeks. After burning up the main stage at the Twin Cities Jazz […]
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