Twin Cities Jazz Festival

News

Some news provided courtesy of
Jazz Police Logo

Hoaxer Ends Their Big Year at the Black Dog, December 30

December 28, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter “…sure to be one of the more important collaborations of young jazz musicians to emerge from Minnesota in a long time.” –Steve Kenny (Producer) and Bill Coulter […]

Drummers Rule: Luke Peterson’s No Exit, Ben Ehrlich Trio at Jazz Central, December 29

December 27, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter It sounds like the Jean-Paul Sartre novel that I tried to translate in high school French, or perhaps the status of road construction in the Twin Cities […]

Will Kjeer Trio with Billy Peterson and Kenny Horst at Vieux Carre’, December 27

December 26, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter A veteran performer at only 21, pianist/composer Will Kjeer is taking an active holiday break from college studies, including leading a formidable trio on Wednesday, December 27, […]

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 2017

December 24, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter [The Lead Sheet is posted monthly and updated weekly. Update 12/24/2017]   2017 is winding down, but it seems jazz is just warming up for the winter. […]

John Raymond Standards Trio at Jazz Central, December 22

December 21, 2017  •  

© 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 Even […]

Bill Carrothers Solo in the Dunsmore Room on December 23

  •  

© Andrea Canter “The relentlessly inventive pianist Bill Carrothers’ harmonic sophistication has to be heard to be believed.”  —Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune “A little bit of Europe right here in […]