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Miguel Zenón Quartet “Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard”

August 29, 2025 •

By Don Berryman Miguel Zenon , Photo by Sylvain Gripoix Alto saxophonist extraordinaire Miguel Zenón is releasing his first-ever live album from his longstanding quartet featuring pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Henry Cole. Vanguardia Subterránea, meaning “Underground Vanguard” was recorded on September 20th & 21st, 2024, at NYC’s legendary underground jazz club, […]

Marc Ribot’s “Map Of A Blue City”: Album Release Presentation at the Cedar Cultural Center, September 5

August 17, 2025 •

Marc Ribot celebrates “Map of a Blue City” in Minneapolis at the Cedar Cultural Center, September 5th By Stephen Maki Over the past four decades, guitarist Marc Ribot has steadily built a resume so long and complex as to seem unimaginable. With album credit listings literally in the hundreds, across multiple genres, with an encyclopedic […]

Purely Jazz: Sheila Jordan, 1928-2025

August 12, 2025 •

Sheila Jordan (2009 Detroit Jazz Festival) Jordan has “absorbed bebop from the source, but she’s also a committed modernist whose style has evolved with the ensuing decades.” – The New Yorker Sheila Jordan, 2012 Healdsburg Jazz Festival “She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the […]

Another Look Back: The 2024 Litchfield Jazz Festival

July 23, 2025 •

Amina Figarova Sextet & The Matsiko World Orphan Choir © Kevin R. Mason The 2024 Litchfield Jazz Festival (LJF) was held from July 26 to 28 at the Frederick Gunn School in Washington, CT. Several Grammy Award winners were part of this 29th year’s line-up. Friday, July 26 We Got Cake © Kevin R. Mason […]

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 […]