© Andrea Canter Memorial Day Weekend often conjures images of picnics in the park and brass bands on the band stand. Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog typically conjures images of skilled improvisers playing original music in diverse configurations. On May 27, Steve Kenny’s jazz series welcomes two bands that cover it all, from […]
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© Andrea Canter We start off the weekend with our first “summer” holiday, and there’s plenty of music to fit in around any barbecues, picnics, or gardening activities. In addition to a good range of local artists, we welcome the return of Chris Potter to the Dakota, with a new quartet celebrating a new release. […]
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© Andrea Canter The Twin Cities Jazz Community boasts a multi-generational affinity for modern approaches to improvisation. On Thursday, May 25, several of these forces converge on the calendar, giving fans of the music three nearly simultaneous options from south Minneapolis to St. Paul’s Groveland to Lowertown, and opportunities to hear the talents of […]
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From April 20 to 23, 2017, Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) held Wayne Shorter Weekend in tribute to one of Newark’s own, iconic saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter. This music-filled weekend included concerts by the Wallace Roney Orchestra, Cécile McLorin Salvant with Sullivan Fortner and the Emmet Cohen Trio, a tribute to Weather Report, and […]
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“Hixson’s slightly gauzy tone and breezy phrasing evoked cool-school singers of the 1950s such as June Christy, Chris Connor and Anita O’Day. Yet there was nothing historic nor nostalgic about Hixson’s manner, her inherent swing sensibility driving the music unstoppably forward. She benefited significantly from the pianism of Rick Carlson, whose buoyant accompaniment referenced the […]
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