Jazz Police, Author at Twin Cities Jazz Festival

Experience Jazz, Grades 7-12: Applications Due March 5!

February 26, 2021 •

Experience Jazz is a genre-bridging music ensemble program for aspiring musical artists with a common desire to make new music rooted in jazz, blues, pop and hip-hop, to create and collaborate together. While rooted in jazz, this program embraces the power and artistry of hiphop, rhythm & blues, and other genres students and instructors want […]

“Return to Forever”: Chick Corea, 1941-2021

February 11, 2021 •

Chick Corea “What making music for people does, I’ve observed, is it stimulates what’s natural in all of us. It’s native sense, in every person. You don’t have to be a professional anything — all you need to do is be a living human being, and open to the play of imagination.” –Chick Corea, Jazz […]

RIP: We Were Always “Pleased and Flipped” to be With Davis Wilson

January 30, 2021 •

Davis Wilson, at home at the Artists Quarter (2013) Author’s Note. Much of this article is drawn from my interview with Davis in 2006, with thanks to Al Iverson for providing much of the background information. “Support them all. It’s a scary business with no fortunes to be made. Their joy in the music and […]

20 from 2020 – New Music that Helped

January 3, 2021 •

2020 was the Year of the Rat which seems fitting for this year of plague. Concerts have been canceled, jazz clubs closed and it was a time when we needed music more than ever. If this dark cloud has a silver lining there must be serious wood-shedding going on right now and in 2021 after […]

The Cody Steinmann Interview

November 12, 2020 •

Cody Steinmann is a 27 year-old guitarist raised in Milwaukee and based in Minneapolis. Steinmann is a self-made man. He had to work for everything that he’s gained as a jazz guitarist, and he’s not afraid to tell you that. He combines his discipline with the life experiences which shaped him: overcoming struggle, crime, and […]

How I Fell in Love With Jazz: Video Contest Deadline November 21

November 11, 2020 •

Just a few months ago, before the COVID pandemic, no one would have imagined a time when musicians couldn’t play together, when there were no gigs, and when playing for live audiences was not possible. We all need music in our lives—COVID or NO COVID. Connecting through music is more important now than ever. We also wanted […]