Jazz Police

© Andrea Canter “Electrifyingly new and strangely familiar at the same time…with his mix of modern sounds and old-fashioned feeling, Raymond is steering jazz in the right direction.” (DownBeat Magazine, ★★★★ 1/2 stars)   Nearly two years ago, Twin Cities native trumpeter John Raymond was on tour with his Real Feels trio in celebration of their […]

© Andrea Canter “Carrothers’ feathery textures go nicely with the wave of effects Dean Magraw wrings from his guitar…bassist Chris Bates and drummer Jay Epstein spin the eruptions with aplomb.” – Star Tribune “Musically, Red Planet is a trio of wide open spaces, and Carrothers fills those spaces subtly but colorfully, his improvisations and accompaniments […]

© Andrea Canter The dazzling guitar-vocal partnership of Charmin Michelle and Sam Miltch returns to the Dunsmore Room on September 11 (7:30 pm) with a program of the music of Billie Holiday. Charmin Michelle sings with “taste and understatement, swing and savoir faire, grace and grooves, intimacy and panache” (TC Music Net).  Born in Birmingham, […]

© Andrea Canter Call him the Comeback Kid. After a potentially disastrous accident that broke both upper arms, Grammy-nominated, former Miles Davis guitarist Mike Stern is again touring and recording, and by all counts, as good as ever. Stern brings his current quartet, with Randy Brecker, Tom Kennedy and Dennis Chambers, to the Dakota on […]

© Andrea Canter “Miles Davis said that the only question for a musician was, ‘Do you have ideas and can you project them?’ For Snowblind, the answer is, ‘at all times.’” – Phil Hey  The brass-laden quintet Snowblind easily earned drummer Phil Hey’s admiration, as well as broad-based fan support,  since it first launched over […]