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The Lead Sheet Update! August 11, 2017

August 10, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter The Lead Sheet is published monthly but updated at least weekly! Some highlights of the coming week: Friday, August 11. The Jana Nyberg 5 debuts in the […]

Kevin Mahogany With Mary Louise Knutson in the Dunsmore Room, August 8-9

August 7, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter “Mahogany is blessed with a voice that is instantly seductive—smooth as butter, sweet as honey and deep as a freshly dug well.” –Jack Bowers, All About Jazz. […]

Cyrille Aimee at the Dakota, August 8

August 6, 2017  •  

“…one of the most promising jazz singers of her generation.” –Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal [Adapted from Cyrille Aimee’s web bio and Mack Avenue bio] Winner of the Montreux Jazz […]

Growlers, No Exit at the Black Dog on August 5

August 4, 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 […]

Jordan Anderson Trio: Emerging Masters and a Veteran at Jazz Central on August 4

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© Andrea Canter Masters and emerging masters again converge at Jazz Central on the Friday “Masters” series (August 4, 8 pm), as University of Michigan piano student Jordan Anderson leads […]

Jon Snell and Chris Merz at Jazz Central, August 2

August 2, 2017  •  

[Jazz Central Press Release]   Five years after recording their live debut album Vu Jà Dé, NYC-based, Iowa native jazz pianist Jon Snell and his former mentor/teacher, saxophonist Chris Merz […]