News - Twin Cities Jazz Festival

Three for Free: Upper Midwest Jazz Fests Host Top Jazz Artists in The Twin Cities, Iowa City and Northfield

June 6, 2025 •

Mears Park is the epicenter of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, June 20-21 Jazz fans and the jazz-curious have three opportunities to sample top talents from the local and international scene in the coming month, and the music is all free! The 27th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival starts the “parade” June 20-21 with headliners […]

Doreen Ketchens To Play The Twin Cities Jazz festival

June 4, 2025 •

Doreen Ketchens brings New Orleans to the Twin Cities Jazz Festival By Dan Emerson At the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, clarinetist and bandleader Doreen Ketchens finished her set in the Economy Hall tent and announced her next gig: “We’ll be back on the street tomorrow,” she told the audience. On the street […]

Honoring Kenny Horst: 2025 Jazz Journalists Association “Jazz Hero–Twin Cities”

May 22, 2025 •

Jazz Journalists Association “Jazz Hero Twin Cities” –Kenny Horst (photo: Andrea Canter) [Note: This article is slightly revised from the original published at www.pleasedandflipped.com. Thanks to Kelle Green for providing it to Jazz Police!] The Jazz Journalists Association just announced its national slate of 2025 Jazz Heroes, advocates who have had significant impact in their […]

Montreal 2024 – Beyond the Festival

May 21, 2025 •

Susie Arioli sings at the “Jjaazexpo” © Kevin R. Mason Jazz Mass Professor Norman Cornett © Kevin R. Mason Each summer, during Festival International de Jazz De Montréal (FIJM), the city of Montréal comes alive with so many musical events that […]

Keith Jarrett At 80 Releases Live Solo Piano Album: New Vienna

May 16, 2025 •

By Don Berryman Celebrating virtuoso Kieth Jarrett at 80, ECM records is releasing New Vienna, which is the fourth album to be issued from his 2016 European tour. This follows ECM’s release of Munich 2016 released in 2019, Budapest Concert released in 2020, and Bordeaux Concert released in 2022. The album contains 10 tracks and […]

JazzMN Orchestra Celebrates the Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Orchestra May 21st

May 9, 2025 •

by Dan Emerson Decades after its heyday, the award-winning Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra is fondly remembered by jazz fans and musicians for its bold, singular sound – and for holding down possibly the longest-running weekly gig in jazz history, nearly 60 years of Monday nights at the Village Vanguard in New York City.. On Wednesday, […]