By Dan Emerson The popular Saturday Night Jazz series in St. Paul’s Lowertown neighborhood has found a new home in an “old” location. Uprooted by the recent closing of Lowertown’s […]
By Dan Emerson On their recent tour, 82 year old keyboardist and composer emeritus Bob James and his 20-something drummer, James Adkins, have been swapping vital information. The well-traveled jazz […]
Willie Jones III Charlie Parker Centennial Celebration Band © Kevin R. Mason With the ongoing pandemic, things are still quite uncertain in the […]
By Dan Emerson. Pianist and composer Ethan Iverson will return to the Twin Cities January 13 to perform at Crooner’s in Fridley, about a month before Blue Note Records releases […]
By Don Berryman A year ago in “20_from 2020 – New Music that Helped” I predicted that in 2021 we would witness an explosion of creativity after all the woodshedding […]
By Dan Emerson Pat Mallinger Home for a visit at Thanksgiving, Chicago-based tenor saxophonist-composer Pat Mallinger was walking in downtown St. Paul when he came across a new club he […]