“Wayne is truly a masterful genius.” — Chris Bates A few months ago at the Icehouse, an ensemble of local jazzsters brought Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil album to life in its entirety, playing under the appropriate name Witch Hunt. Now the “hunt” continues, with an all-star quintet reprising the effort as part of […]
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For the full week’s worth of the Lead Sheet, visit www.jazzink.com, posted every week, usually by Thursday evening. As we get closer and closer to the Twin Cities Jazz festival (June 23-25), we seem to be revving up the jazz engines with a strong slate of gigs and concerts in coming weeks. Some outstanding visitors […]
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When a regular weekly curated Jazz series established a beachhead on Fridays at the intersection of Franklin & Nicollet avenues in Minneapolis well over a year ago, the coffee house located there was called ‘The Nicollet’, and was struggling to graduate into becoming well known. The place had history as a small scale music venue, […]
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Ed. note: Not intended to be exhaustive, just some subjective highlights of the coming month May 2. Tim Kliphuis and Sam Miltch at the Dakota, 7 pm. Dutch violinist and Grand Rapids, MN guitarist dazzled at the 2015 Twin Cities Jazz Festival, and just released the album, Duets. The gypsy jazz tradition is in good […]
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When the “Skipper” Henry Franklin (bass) and long-time friend, Carl Burnett (drums) get together, they make more magic, carried forward from their days with Gene Harris’ Three Sounds. This CD is a tribute to iconic pianist McCoy Tyner and also to the Three Sounds. Franklin met pianist Bill Heid during one of his recent working […]
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