Jazz Police

One of the hottest young jazz talents in the Twin Cities during the first part of the 00s, bassist Michael O’Brien relocated to New York about 9 years ago where he has built an enviable reputation. Fortunately he returns “home” now and then to reconnect with old pals. After a gig last week at Vieux […]

  First it was Friday Night Jazz at The Nicollet, Steve Kenny’s weekly presentation of the top area jazz ensembles in south Minneapolis. After about a year, it was briefly Friday Night Jazz in Exile as rebranding at The Nicollet and refocusing of their music program left the jazz series displaced for a month of […]

One of the first ensembles to appear in the Dunsmore Room at Crooners Lounge after the space opened last December, the Mary Louise Knutson Trio now returns for another night of intimate “piano trio finery” on May 17. Not only is the trio led by one of the region’s most accomplished jazz pianists and composers, […]

On June 5 at 4 pm, The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota presents  Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and Blue Note recording artist, Joe Lovano, in a tribute concert to the late composer and educator Gunther Schuller, in Sundin Hall on the Hamline University campus in St Paul. French horn prodigy, NEA Jazz Master, composer, conductor and […]

One of the longest-running partnerships to ever grace a pizza parlor in the Twin Cities, Denny Malmberg and Charmin Michelle played their last gig at Fireside Pizza in spring 2015, when the venue closed for renovations, reopening in the summer but no longer presenting live music. Both Charmin and Denny have performed in many other […]