© Andrea Canter [Note: New posts monthly with updates weekly. Post updated 3-30-18] March kicks off with Delfeayo Marsalis at the Dakota, where this month also brings Monk Competition and Grammy winning vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant and a four-night 80th birthday bash with Charles Lloyd; Walker Art Center hosts a “Sonic Universe” of artists connected […]
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The headline above for the latest release from the “Standards Trio”—Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums)—is worthy of a nod to the title of the classic 1957 album by Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners. There is a palpable reverence and the highest level of esteem offered by the audience for […]
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Central Standard Time, on March 2 (8:00 pm) Under the leadership of Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog curator Steve Kenny, the ensemble Central Standard Time launched about three years ago and has involved a rotating, cross-generation cast of area artists. A number of specific tunes have become associated with these bookings, and […]
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© Andrea Canter Jeremy Walker’s Jazz in the Target Atrium series continues on Friday, February 23 (8 pm) with a program saluting the “band in a box,” dubbed “At the Piano.” The concert features four of the metro area’s top pianists/composers–Chris Lomheim, Bryan Nichols, Javier Santiago and Jeremy Walker– playing jazz classics and original music. […]
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© Andrea Canter I’m not yet 70 and already I have retired three times. And since Minneapolis Schools became my first real employer, I changed “jobs” there about every 6-7 years (even if I had the same employer, and even the same job title), so it never seemed like I had been in one place […]
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