Todd Harper Leads 6-Piece group into Metronome in Saint Paul, Saturday night May 16 at 7:30pm. Group members have played off and on with various combinations of each other literally for decades. Todd leads the group through a lot of original music. But when Todd talked to Phil Nusbaum, Todd talked about the inspiration for...Read More

The Hennepin County Library is a great resource for local music. They really invest in the community and provide a great opportunity for local artists to be heard through their MN Spin program. Not only does the program give local musicians some exposure in making their music available digitally to visitors who can download their...Read More

Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band released their debut album Incarnadine this May 8th. Learn about the history of Big Band in Native communities. Listen to Yonci Jameson’s interview with Keefe about bringing Indigenous jazz to the fore:   More Posts for Show: This Just InRead More

Guitarist Kenny Reichert is an artist who splits his time between the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Chicago, and a teaching job in Oklahoma. He is Artist in Residence at the Minneapolis venue Berlin this month, and through the month of May he is featuring several of his different projects in a series called “Letters from the...Read More

Two Twin-Cities based musicians, guitarist and singer Caro Bernardini and bandoneon player Charles Gorczynski, join Jazz88 Morning Host Peter Solomon for an in-studio performance and conversation. They discuss the evolution of Tango music, which was a cultural fusion of European immigrants that came into contact with African-descended people that lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina in...Read More