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Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog: Corner Jazz and the Steve Kenny Quartet, April 8

April 7, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter For the past 140 weeks (or so), Steve Kenny has presented two sets of jazz on the Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series, usually starting […]

Maria Schneider Returns to Lead the JazzMN Orchestra on April 8

April 5, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter “Maria Schneider is a national treasure.” — National Public Radio “Like Wayne Shorter, she somehow expresses compassion through tones.” –The New York Times   From her days […]

Freddy Cole Returns to the Dakota, April 4

April 1, 2017  •  

© Andrea Canter  “Freddy has an impeccable sense of swing…he is, overall, the most maturely expressive male jazz singer of his generation, if not the best alive.” —The New York […]

Greg Ward Quintet at the Icehouse, Monday April 3

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© Jon Morgan Since his last appearance in the Twin Cities as part of drummer Mike Reed’s People Places and Things quintet, saxophonist Greg Ward has been restlessly engrossed in […]

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 31- April 6

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© Andrea Canter Finally it seems we’re into spring mode, just in time for April and some outstanding options in jazz for the coming week, from local stars the Atlantis […]

Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog Presents Common Space, Atlantis Quartet on April 1

March 31, 2017  •  

 © Andrea Canter ” [Atlantis Quartet] shifts nimbly from a punk-jazz aesthetic to an ECM-ish sensitivity.”–Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times One of the most praised jazz ensembles in the Twin Cities, […]