Jazz Police

  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 […]

© 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. […]

© 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 […]

© Andrea Canter About a year ago, guitar whiz Sam Miltich and elder statesman saxophonist Dave Karr led a quartet at the Black Dog with pals Chris Bates and Jay Epstein. Now the band returns on the Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series at 8:30 pm, following Elevator Jazz, opening the evening on […]

© Andrea Canter “…there’s a sense of sonic evenhandedness reflecting both the instrument’s depth of character and the artist’s depth of soul.” –Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz   Nearly two years ago, Twin Cities native trumpeter John Raymond was on tour with his Real Feels trio in celebration of their eponymous debut studio album. The […]