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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 12-18

May 12, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter It looks like a great spring week coming our way with national headliners and local talents–talents that could be national headliners. Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 12. One of the most lauded composers and bandleaders of his generation, saxophonist Steve Coleman brings his rarely performed project, Natal Eclipse, to 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, […]

Twin Cities Jazz Festival Announces Full Line-up of Headliners!

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© Andrea Canter Ed. note: Portions of this article are taken from the May 10th press release from the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Twin Cities Jazz Festival’s Executive Director Steve Heckler ushered in May with an exciting announcement, revealing the addition of saxophone heavyweight Joshua Redman and burgeoning talent, pianist Emmet Cohen to the […]

Open Story, Walker West Jazz Ensemble at the Black Dog on May 13

May 10, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter Last fall, a “new” trio launched in the Dunsmore Room of Crooners Lounge, bringing together three local veterans who somehow had never played together before. As Open Story, Dean Magraw, Bryan Nichols and Jay Epstein proved to be as effective as collaborators as they are talented as solo performers, bandleaders, and sidemen. […]

Steve Coleman Brings Natal Eclipse to the Walker on May 12

May 9, 2017 •

[Ed. note, much of the content of this article is adapted from the Walker and Steve Coleman websites.] “With strains of Parker and Coltrane, Bartók, and the musics of the Middle East and China … [Natal Eclipse’s performance] was something beautiful, indeed essential.” —The Nation Composer/bandleader/saxophonist Steve Coleman, “one of the most rigorously conceptual thinkers […]

Together Again: Rio Nido in the Dunsmore Room on May 9

May 8, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter One of the Twin Cities’ most popular vocal groups, Rio Nido performs in the Dunsmore Room at Crooners Lounge in Fridley on Tuesday, May 9. The original trio of Tim Sparks, Prudence Johnson, and Tom Lieberman established themselves as exceptional performers, playing classic jazz from the 1930s and ’40s at the hottest […]