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2018 Winter Jazz Festival will be held at Crooners Sunday, January 28
December 5, 2017 •St. Paul, Minn., December 5, 2017 – This year’s Winter Jazz Festival – the cold-weather version of the popular Twin Cities Jazz Festival – will move to Crooners on Sunday, January 28, featuring favorites Regina Carter with Xavier Davis on piano, Butch Miles, Connie Evingson, the Jazz Central All Stars, Travis Anderson Trio, Jake Baldwin […]
Twin Cities Jazz Festival Preview by TPT (Video)
June 21, 2017 •
How to Prepare for the Twin Cities Jazz Festival
June 7, 2017 •So begins the season of never ending opportunities for outdoor festivals – music, food, beer, Scottish, Irish, Renaissance. The State Fair? The list goes on, so that means I need to prioritize. Which ones am I going to? How long will I stay? Is this a 24/7 commitment or just a few hours of the […]
Twin Cities Jazz Festival Announces Additional Headliners, the full schedule and a preview night in Minneapolis!
May 11, 2017 •The Twin Cities Jazz Festival’s executive director, Steve Heckler, ushered in May with an exciting announcement today, revealing the addition of saxophone heavyweight Joshua Redman and burgeoning talent, pianist Emmet Cohen to the already stacked line-up for the 19th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival. And, there will be a preview night in Minneapolis on Saturday, […]
Piano legend McCoy Tyner to headline 2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival by StarTribune.com
March 22, 2017 •Original Article By Tim Campbell | Star Tribune One of jazz’s all-time greats, pianist McCoy Tyner, will headline this summer’s Twin Cities Jazz Festival. The powerhouse keyboardist who helped drive John Coltrane to his greatest heights, Tyner (pictured above) remains a commanding presence at age 78, as he proved in gigs last fall at the […]
McCoy Tyner, Terence Blanchard among Twin Cities Jazz Festival headliners by TwinCities.com
•Original Article By Ross Raihala | Pioneer Press Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard, John Coltrane Quartet pianist McCoy Tyner, New York bandleader and composer Anat Cohen and Minnesota’s own Bobby Lyle will headline the 19th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival on June 22 through 24 in and around Mears Park in Lowertown St. Paul. The […]