Jazz Police

“Nicole Mitchell is the preeminent improvising flutist of her generation, adapting and extending the innovations of Eric Dolphy and James Newton.” —Neil Tesser, Jazziz An extended fourth season of Jazz at Studio Z ends this weekend when Chicago-based, internationally acclaimed flautist Nicole Mitchell comes to St. Paul on Saturday, August 27. She’ll present a Master […]

The State Fair is underway in St Paul, but if you prefer music without corndogs, you won’t have any trouble finding great jazz this week, as we have some very special talents on stages around the metro, from a rare appearance by Chicago’s Nicole Mitchell to a two-night stand by Bill Carrothers, from a multi-Peterson […]

It sounds like the Jean-Paul Sartre novel that I tried to translate in high school French, but No Exit is actually a quintet of metro young lions prowling through some new music as the headline band on the Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series, August 26th. They follow an opening set from Amythest […]

Just in his late 20s, singer/pianist/bandleader Andrew Walesch has become a major player on the Twin Cities Jazz Scene. On metro stages over the past two years with his big band celebrating “100 Years of Sinatra,” Andrew has appeared at Chanhassan Dinner Theater, the Dakota, Crooners Lounge and more, and also keeps busy as the […]