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Twin Cities Jazz Festival Returns! Live and Virtually From Mears Park, September 16-18

September 12, 2021 •

Mears Park (2018 Twin Cities Jazz Festival) The first Twin Cities Jazz Festival back in 1999 wasn’t even supposed to be a jazz festival, just an “event” to promote the […]

Sheila Jordan’s Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 To Be Released September 17th By Capri Records

September 6, 2021 •

by Don Berryman As last year brought to us found recordings from the mid-century, including Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ Just Coolin’, Sonny Rollins in Holland, and Charles Mingus […]

The Lead Sheet: JazzMN Celebrates Women Composers

August 27, 2021 •

JazzMN Orchestra performed with Bob Mintzer in the Belvedere tent at Crooners in June Atlantis Quartet Yes, there are bigger events than jazz gigs across the Metro this weekend, generating […]

Take Your Best Shot: Upper Midwest B & W Music Photo Contest Underway

August 21, 2021 •

Dave Hagedorn, image by Andrea Canter Under the leadership of area photographer Steven Peterson, the Upper Midwest Black and White Music Photography Contest is underway! Launched to support Midwest musicians […]

The Lead Sheet: Jazz Central This Weekend (And All Year)

August 20, 2021 •

Mac Santiago, founder and director of Jazz Central, and veteran percussionist There’s a lot of great music, including hot jazz, around the metro this week but I need to specifically […]

The Lead Sheet Returns! August 2021, Part 1

August 12, 2021 •

Adam Meckler Orchestra I sort of retired “The Lead Sheet” when COVID shut down live music. And while I am no longer willing to commit to a weekly “heads up” […]