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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 2017

December 19, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter [The Lead Sheet is posted monthly and updated weekly. Updated 12/15/2017] Holiday jazz, debut performances, and perennial favorites add to the festive sounds around the Twin Cities this week. Friday, December 15. Since returning to the Twin Cities after studies at UW-Eau Claire and earning is doctoral degree at the University of […]

The Bad Plus Annual Holiday at the Dakota Is Finale for Original Trio, December 20-23

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© Andrea Canter “The Bad Plus have always been a band in the truest sense – a group of passionate collaborators with no single “leader”. That spirit will continue in full-force…” The Bad Plus After 18 years of collaboration, global touring, acclaimed recordings, even controversy as to their relationship to “real jazz,” The Bad Plus […]

Inatnas Orchestra Debuts at the Black Dog, December 16

December 12, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter Recent transplants from New York City, Asuka Kakitani and JC Sanford will premiere their own 17-piece Inatnas Orchestra on the Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series in St. Paul on December 16 at 8:30 pm. The Steve Kenny Trio (with Kameron Markworth and Miguel Hurtado) will open the evening in the bar at 7 […]

Illicit Jazz Workshop Presents the Aaron Hedenstrom Quartet on December 15

December 11, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter Since returning to the Twin Cities after studies at UW-Eau Claire and earning is doctoral degree at the University of North Texas, saxophonist Aaron Hedenstrom has become a busy member of the local jazz scene. His Quartet performs on Friday, December 15 (8 pm) at Jazz Central, part of the Illicit […]

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 2017

December 8, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter [Update 12-8-17. The Lead Sheet is posted monthly and updated weekly.] Friday, December 8. Two veterans a few generations apart star tonight: On the Illicit Jazz Workshop schedule, one of the legends of jazz drumming, Eric Kamau Gravatt leads his long-running Source Code ensemble at Jazz Central. His line-up is a bit […]

Benny Green Returns to the Dunsmore Room, December 10-11

December 7, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter “He’s an authentic bebop player, part of a vanishing species.” — Richard Sheinen, San José Mercury News Having baptized the “new” Steinway in the Dunsmore Room of Crooner’s Lounge in October 2016, internationally acclaimed pianist Benny Green returns for two nights, four shows of solo magic, December 10-11. “Benny Green could […]