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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, October 2017

October 13, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter [The Lead Sheet is updated weekly during the month] October typically brings some of the year’s best weather, and often, some of the year’s best jazz as well. The month starts out on a high note (pun intended), with visitors Tony Malaby, Bill Carrothers and Pat Mallinger, the Dave King Trio, Savion […]

Davu Seru’s No Territory Band at Jazz Central, October 13

October 10, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter “The squawks, silences and knotty time signatures usually associated with art-house music get a big boost from the staccato funk of hip-hop and the circular rhythms of Ghana, all underpinned by the blues.” — Britt Robson, Star Tribune For more than two years, Steve Kenny presented Friday Night Jazz at the […]

Jazz in the Target Atrium Features “Drum and Trumpet” on October 13

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© Andrea Canter Folklore suggestions Friday the 13th is a day for apprehension, bad luck, black cats, etc. At Orchestra Hall on this upcoming October Friday the 13th, we have a night of enthusiastic anticipation, good luck, and talented jazz cats as Jeremy Walker opens his fourth Jazz in the Target Atrium season with a […]

Corea/Gadd Band at the Dakota, October 10-11

October 9, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter Piano legend Chick Corea has brought a number of projects to the Dakota Jazz Club in downtown Minneapolis, including reunions with Gary Burton and Bela Fleck. Now he reunites with Return to Forever drummer Steve Gadd in the sextet, Corea/Gadd Band, performing two nights at the Dakota on October 10-11, two shows […]

Jazz Women All-Stars Return to the Dakota on October 6

October 5, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter A project initiated and directed by Twin Cities’ vocalist Patty Peterson, The Jazz Women All-Stars debuted at the 2016 Twin Cities Jazz Festival, opening music on the AARP Main Stage at Mears Park on June 24th. With an initial cast of local (or formerly local) jazz women–Mary Louise Knutson on piano, Joan […]

Bryan Nichols Quintet Launches Friday Night Jazz in the Dunsmore Room, October 6

October 3, 2017 •

© Andrea Canter “…a swinging, sometimes quirky sense of time and creative expression.” – Jazz Police Although he admits that he never formally studied jazz, it did not take pianist Bryan Nichols long to establish his jazz credentials as a performer, composer or educator. After completing a degree in Genetics at Iowa State University, Bryan […]