This week’s Hot New Local Single is a recording of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in Tunisia” by Adi Yeshaya’s Orchestra featuring vocalist Jennifer Grimm. It’s from a new Yeshaya album called Produce. The album features Grimm in a a variety of different musical styles, ranging from the swing era classic “All of Me” to Cole Porter and...Read More

Jazz88’s Peter Solomon speaks with arranger and composer Adi Yeshaya about his latest recording, Produce. The album showcases vocalist Jennifer Grimm. Yeshaya discusses his association with the late Twin Cities singer Debbie Duncan, sheds some light on the arrangements featured on the album, and talks about his upcoming appearance at the Dakota on Wednesday, October...Read More

The Atlantis Quartet have been stalwarts of the Twin Cities modern jazz scene for nearly twenty years. The ensemble includes saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, guitarist Zacc Harris, bassist Chris Bates, and drummer Pete Hennig. The group started out as a kind of composing collective that met on a weekly basis. Over the years they evolved a distinctive...Read More

This week’s Hot New Local Single “A Tune for Towner” from the new Joel Shapira solo guitar recording Unscripted. The namesake for the tune is multi-instrumentalist Ralph Towner. Towner, who is now 85, became well-known for his work with the Paul Winter Consort, his appearance on the Weather Report record I Sing the Body Electric, and especially for his role...Read More

Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below! Stokely – Rare (no,no,no) Steve Kenny – Up Chuck Joan Hutton – Sidekick George Colligan – If the Mountain was Smooth, you Couldn’t Climb It Cody Steinmann – And Make Jimmy Greene – Praises Cecil McBee – Tulsa Black James...Read More

Jazz88 listeners are familiar with the talented musicians featured in this week’s Hot New Local Single. The BZ3 Organ Trio is comprised of Brian Ziemniak on the Hammond B3 organ, David Feilly on guitar, and Kevin Washington on drums. More than a jazz organ combo, they blend elements of funk, soul, and R and B into a...Read More

Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below! Yuko Mabuchi – Sky with No Tears HEYARLO – Plumes Deitch, Teitel, Fribush – Rolex Joe Farnsworth – All Said and Done James Brandon Lewis – Prince Eugene Pino Palladino and Blake Mills – Taka Kassa Overall – C.R.E.A.M. Brass...Read More

This week’s Hot New Local Single is “If I Do My Own,” a song that melds the James Brown-inspired vocals of Obi Original with the insistent Afrobeat energy of the Minneapolis-based group Black Market Brass. The music is energetic, exciting, and makes you want to get out of your seat and dance with abandon! Obi...Read More

Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below!   Yuko Mabuchi – Batuucada Airmen of Note – When the Amazon Spoke We Listened Nicole Glover – No. 2 Jimmy Greene – Praises George Colligan – If the Mountain Was Smooth, You Couldn’t Climb It Steve Kenny – Up...Read More

This week’s hot new local single features the Society of Chemists, a Twin Cities-based quartet including saxophonist/flautist/keyboardist Stephanie Wieseler, pianist Jack Barrett, bassist Charlie Bruber and drummer Ben Erlich. You may have caught their set this summer at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Sometimes  described as a fusion group, whatever the appropriate category is for...Read More