Greetings! Sean here. I’m honored to be joined by student intern Laelah Stephney, a rising senior from South High. She’s working with me this summer on music programming and on producing This Just In. Every Friday, we’ll bring you some highlights of new music we are featuring here on Jazz88. This is all connected to...Read More
Kamasi Washington – The Garden Path Parlor Greens – Driptorch Take That Back – Playhouse Bats Concurrence – Nightcap at Brown’s Dinner Club Jo Harrop – Only The Horizon WJ3 All-Stars – Jitterbug Waltz Eric Alexander – Serenade to a Cuckoo Matthew Whitaker – Expect Your Miracle Karrin Allyson – Wave Andrew Bird –...Read More
Twin Cities-based guitarist Pavel Jany and his Global Jazz Collegium are back with their latest disc, Labyrinth. Jany and many of the other members of the Collegium also work in the group Ticket to Brasil, but for this group, they follow their interests beyond Brazil and explore many of the international sounds that have become...Read More
Local mainstay and friend of the station, Ginger Commodore, came to visit Sean McPherson on The Afternoon Cruise to discuss her new four-show series, “And the Melodies Still Linger On”. The series launches on Thursday, August 1 at Crooners. Ms. Commodore discussed how she picks songs, accompanists, and why she has been so focused on...Read More
Greetings! Sean here. I’m honored to be joined by student intern Laelah Stephney, who is working with me this summer on music programming and on producing This Just In. Our last review this week is penned by Olive Norvell, a host on Jazz88 and MPS Voices. Every Friday, we’ll be bringing you some highlights of...Read More
Lucia Sarmiento – Look Up Jeff Coffin – Only the Horizon Concurrence – Nightcap at Brown’s Dinner Club Kavyesh Kaviraj – Rain Khruangbin – Three From Two Karen Mack – Come To Baby, Do Andrew Bird – I Fall In Love Too Easily Dayna Stephens – Bubbly SugaRay Rayford – Run for Cover Kerry...Read More
Joyann Parker isn’t one to slow down. Since finding blues and soul music in her mid-thirties, she has been on a campaign to learn, celebrate, and perform Black American music. She’s doing just that on Friday night, July 26, at The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis. She and Lori Dokken from The Woman’s Club stopped by...Read More
Kamasi Washington – Prologue Karen Mack – Come To Baby, Do Hiatus Kaiyote – Everything’s Beautiful Davina and the Vagabonds – Build Me Up Buttercup Stefon Harris – Devil in the Details Andrew Bird – I Fall In Love Too Easily Matthew Whitaker – Expect Your Miracle Eliane Elias – Making Honey Jacky Terrasson...Read More
Bassist Greg Bryant is one half of the jazz duo Concurrence. On their new album, Indivisible, he and pianist Paul Horton use an entire toolbox of expression to tell the story of the impact of Interstate 40 on Black neighborhoods in Nashville. Bryant, who hails from Nashville, discussed how he and Horton came to tell...Read More
In his interview with Sean McPherson this week, in-demand Twin Cities pianist Kavyesh Kaviraj said he is running on “two batteries.” His debut album as leader, Fables, is a culmination of at least a year of work for Kaviraj and his team. For his visit to Jazz88, Kaviraj focused on how a half decade of...Read More
