The Yellowjackets and the JazzMN Orchestra with Michael Mayo are the headliners for the 28th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival appearing on the main stage in Mears Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota on June 19th and 20th Watch the TCJS website for more details as more of the schedule is announced: https://www.twincitiesjazzfestival.com/ Yellowjackets Friday, June […]
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by Don Berryman “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing”. Miles Davis Celebrating the year of Miles Davis’s centennial, drummer Gregory Hutchinson is releasing Kind Of Now, The Pulse of Miles Davis on Warner Music this April 3rd. The album features the extraordinary Ambrose Akinmusire, who is ideally suited to the task of […]
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Thee Steve Kenny Quintet will play a few selections from the recently released “Blue Chunks” CD (picked as one of the best of 2025 by Don Berryman) intermixed with some crowd-pleasing favorite Jazz Standards selected from the group’s multiple years of performances. There will probably be some Coltrane material as well. The current lineup features […]
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By Don Berryman Duo CORDA, a musical collaboration between cellist Jacqueline Ultan and guitarist Paval Jany pulling together music from multiple genres, has just released their eponymous debut album. Both cello and guitar make sound from vibrating strings resonating in a wooden body. However the bowed string and fretless fingerboard of the cello allow […]
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by Don Berryman A previously unreleased recording of the late great pianist, Bobby Peterson, with bassist Gary Raynor and drummer Jay Epstein recorded live at the Dakota jazz club at Bandana Square in Saint Paul in 1996 is now available on Bandcamp This show was a tribute to Oscar Peterson who Bobby noted was […]
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