“I love jazz just because it makes me want to dance… There aren’t really any boundaries that are set, and you’re free to experiment and develop your own artistic style and voice. I’m also always amazed by the mutual trust and communication between members of a musical group that allows for spontaneous creation, and I […]
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This review is a “twofer.” Technically three, if you count the two discs in The Unity Sessions. Guitarist Pat Metheny seems to be an artist who has more hat tricks in the studio and on stage than he does striped shirts in his wardrobe. Unless he wears the same one all the time. Not relevant […]
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Two former Twin Cities residents, trumpeter Kelly Rossum and bassist Michael O’Brien, are in town this weekend and it was inevitable that they would find themselves together on one bandstand. Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog offers this opportunity as O’Brien joins the opening (7 pm) trio, Convergence, led by guitarist Joel Shapira […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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