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Festival Profile, Mary Louise Knutson: Working the Magic from Solo to Big Band
June 21, 2017 •© Jon Morgan As fortunate as we are to have an opportunity at each year’s Twin Cities Jazz Festival to hear legends like McCoy Tyner or Ellis Marsalis, along with younger stars such as Anat Cohen or Joey Alexander, what may be as impressive is the sheer vitality of the local jazz scene put on […]
2017 Twin Cities Jazz Festival, Day by Day: Thursday, June 22
June 20, 2017 •© Andrea Canter Officially, the 19th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival launches in and around Mears Park in St Paul on Thursday, June 22, running through June 24, with jazz and more jazz, all of it free, at 27 different venues. Several pre-fest events have already taken place with performances at the Hennepin Avenue United […]
Pre-Fest: Cameron Kinghorn, Charanga Tropical, Jordan Anderson, Lee Engele
June 18, 2017 •© Andrea Canter The Twin Cities Jazz Festival officially gets underway June 22, but there’s already been some pre-fest music, continuing this weekend and into the week with performances at the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis and at the George Latimer Central Library, Walker West Music Academy, and Merriam Park Library in St. […]
Nancy Harms Returns to the Dunsmore Room, June 18
June 17, 2017 •© Andrea Canter “Other people are trying to be jazz vocalists. Nancy just is a jazz vocalist. She has amazing pitch and really good time, and she never has problems with form, which for a vocalist is crazy.” –Jeremy Siskind In 2015, Minnesota transplant, New York-based vocalist Nancy Harms presented two stunning rounds of […]
How Birds Work, Youth Showcase at the Black Dog, June 17
June 16, 2017 •© Andrea Canter “We all listen to what’s happening moment to moment and try to contribute a part that no one else would think of. When we open it up, it’s like, whoa. It might not be obvious to listeners where the top or the bridge of the tune is. But we always come back.” […]
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