Jazz Police

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 […]

Almost every musician and jazz fan has scene the iconic photo, “A Great Day in Harlem”, a gathering of 57 jazz musicians on the steps of a Manhattan brownstone in 1958, photographed by Esquire’s Art Kane. In the Twin Cities, we’ve had our own “Great Day” photo, taken at the Artists Quarter in 1998 by […]

Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog presents some of the most creative jazz in the Twin Cities area, every Saturday night. And there’s always two bands, with (typically) up-and-coming artists or cross-generational bands in new configurations for the opening set at 7 pm, followed by one of the area’s accomplished ensembles or a new […]