The celestial event of the season: Red Planet orbits back to MetroNOME every 1st Tuesday of the month Featuring: Dean Magraw: guitar Chris Bates: bass Jay Epstein: drums We’d love to share some sonics with you – Stop in to dig it & boost your dopamine! Visit Red Planet: https://www.redplanetjazz.com/

Take That Back is Joan Hutton (bass clarinet & alto saxophone), Sue Orfield (tenor sax), Ted Godbout (keys), Kameron Markworth (basses) and David Schmalenberger (drums). Joan and Sue started the group in 2018 in order to write and perform their original music. They released their first self-titled album in January 2022, and are currently working […]

In Person & Live Stream Featuring: Abinnet Berhanu – Drums Will Kjeer – Piano Graydon Petersen – Bass

In Person & Live Stream Featuring: Sarah Navratil-Tenor Sax Hannah Harder- Tenor Sax Bass- Shawn Wang Piano- Kavyesh Kaviraj Drums- Dave Hagedorn We will be playing a set of duel Tenor songs and arranged standards.

8:00pm Cody Steinman Trio Cody Steinmann – Guitar Chris Bates – Bass Abinnet Berhanu – Drums Cody Steinmann has been performing and teaching professionally for over 10 years. He attended Milwaukee Area Technical College where he completed an Associate’s degree in Music Occupations and later won a Rita Tallent Picken scholarship to attend the University […]

Week #2 featuring: Set 1 – Meckler/Courage/Green Adam Meckler – trumpet Brian Courage – bass Andrew Green – drums Set 2 – BZ3 Brian Ziemniak – keys David Fiely – guitar Kevin Washington – drums

The Acme Jazz Company was formed in 2008 to play original big band music. All the music is composed and/or arranged by members of the band. The primary composers/arrangers are Bob Parsons, Lance Strickland and Doug Rasmussen. ACME also features Arne Fogel on vocals, a master of the American Standard well known in the Midwest. […]

Cafe Accordion Orchestra offers a way retro mix of Parisian bistro backdrops, Brazilian bossa, Argentine tangos, fun foxtrots, catchy cumbia and a touch of old-school swing. CAO is led by DAN NEWTON on accordion and vocals, with ERIC MOHRING on mandolin, violin and vocals, BRIAN BARNES on guitars and vocals, ERIK LILLESTOL on bass and […]

A TRIBUTE TO BILL EVANS WITH THE PHIL AARON TRIO, FEATURING JAY EPSTEIN AND CHARLIE LINCOLN. Pianist Phil Aaron is a Chicago native who studied music at the Berklee College of Music and the University of Illinois. After ten years in LA, he moved to Minneapolis in 1989, becoming fully immersed in the local jazz […]

In Person & Live Stream Jon Wood is an active professional musician in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with performances on guitar, electric and upright bass, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, and cajon. Venues Jon has performed at include Jazz Central Studios in Minneapolis for their Monday Night Artist Feature and Thursday Night Vocal Series, the […]

The Red Hot Django Peppers is a band that formed from the love of the music of Django Reinhardt. The troupe consists of guitarists Ryan Picone and Jose Betanzos, violinist Danny Lentz, and bassist Sean Roderick. The Red Hot Django Peppers had their premiere performance in early 2019 at Moto-I and were then asked to […]

In Person & Live Stream When five musicians spanning in age from their 30’s to the 60’s, all having placed the practice of jazz as an important priority in life, play together for over a decade . . . something wonderful starts to happen. They find the pocket. . . they swing, they flow. Jazz […]

8:00pm Steve Kenny “Trio” Steve Kenny – Trumpet joined by Lasse Corson – Piano and some assorted number of their cohorts. Always a surprising and fresh ensemble, and almost never just a trio !!! 9:30pm The Blue Ox Trio – CD Release Jack Schabert – Drums Adam Tucker – Bass Zach Studdiford – Piano Featuring […]

For nearly two decades the Southside Aces have been playing the repertoire of the Jazz Age greats and beyond. From the early New Orleans of Jelly Roll Morton to the joys of Louis Armstrong through to the barrel house sounds of Preservation Hall. And with the June release of their 8th album, Minneapolis Bump, they’ve […]

Twin Cities natives guitarist/vocalist Todd Clouser and drummer JT Bates are joined by keyboard legend John Medeski for a night of Clouser and Medeski compositions that run from cinematic to psychedelic. The trio comes home in support of their most recent release, the Minneapolis recorded “You The Brave : Live at Icehouse”.

Alto saxophonist Henry Berberi lives in Morris, Minnesota, where he is a rising senior at Morris Area High School. He started playing the saxophone in fifth grade and has since studied with Jonathan Campbell, Matthew Patnode, Edmar Colón, and George Garzone. Henry was a member of the 2021 and 2022 Berklee Jazz Workshop, was named […]

StableMates (Dale Alexander: piano, Gary Raynor: bass, & Jay Epstein: drums) have been musical comrades for several decades. Their repertoire is Jazz standards of the Great American Songbook and the classic post-bop material of progressive piano trio. The group was initially formed out of their musical connections with Brazilian pianist Manfredo Fest, with whom Raynor […]

Dale Alexander, Gary Raynor, Jay Epstein

In Person & Live Stream Featuring: Mitch Van Laar-trumpet Dave Brattain-tenor saxophone Ted Godbout-piano Adam Harder Nussbaum-drums Ted Olsen-bass

Ted Olsen (upright bass) // Will Kjeer (piano) // Abinnet Berhanu (drums)

All Terrain Vehicle is a trio of guitar, bass and drums, featuring (respectively) Zacc Harris, Cody McKinney, and Dave Power. This super group of celebrities plays mostly improvised music that will take you to another plane of existence (Time Is A Flat Circle).

In Person & Live Stream Twin Cities native Chris Graham caught the attention of the local jazz community while only a teenager. His early talent and passion for the music earned him admission to The New School in New York city, where he had the privilege to study with true masters and elders of the […]

RICK CARLSON taught himself to play the piano by studying the vast works of Count Basie and Duke Ellington and capitalizing on a long string of happy accidents. He has also perfected the art of “circular drinking”, whereby he can sip martinis uninterrupted while still playing a cohesive piano solo. He has been the pianist […]

Week #4 featuring: Set 1 – Kevin Gastonguay Play New Hits Set 2 – Trumpet Band

Since moving to Minneapolis in 2005, Zacc Harris has gained a reputation as one of the area’s top guitarists, being named 2017 Twin Cities Best Jazz Artist by the City Pages. He performs in a host of creative projects including Atlantis Quartet, winner of the 2015 McKnight Fellowship and named 2011 Best Jazz Artist, as […]

Since moving to Minneapolis in 2005, Zacc Harris has gained a reputation as one of the area’s top guitarists, being named 2017 Twin Cities Best Jazz Artist by the City Pages. He performs in a host of creative projects including Atlantis Quartet, winner of the 2015 McKnight Fellowship and named 2011 Best Jazz Artist, as […]

Stray Gray Duck has a foot in every corner of American music. Influenced by the band Stray Gators that backed up Neil Young on the album Harvest, we present instrumental music focused on American music traditions including folk, blues, indie, jazz, and country. Shane Akers (The Dollys, Doug Otto and the Getaways) on dobro, Chris […]

A tribute to cultural healing In person and live streamed

Hailed as “gently virtuosic” (All About Jazz), Maud Hixson is a devoted exponent of great songs, ranging from the classic Great American Songbook to the often unsung or forgotten compositions awaiting rediscovery. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Maud is the co-founder of the continental jazz sextet French 75 with clarinetist Tony Balluff. She made her […]

Live dinner music with: Kavyesh Kaviraj (piano), Ted Olsen (bass), and Peter Goggin (saxophone)

Week #5 featuring: Set 1 – Nelson Devereaux Presents “Zones” Set 2 – TBA