Cody Steinmann is a trusted guitar player and teacher in town who can be found giving lessons, playing gigs and sitting in. Steinmann is also a recording artist who is consistently putting out new material. Earlier this summer, Steinmann released the new EP Barely Anyone Calls Me So I Just Stay At Home and Make My...Read More

Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below!   Marianne Solivan – Open the Door The Riffin’ Trio – Riffer’s Theme Cecil McBee – Tulsa Black Ski Club – Swing Tune Richard D. Johnson – 1324 Broadway Dawn Clement – Outstretch Kassa Overall – Cool Like Dat (Rebirth...Read More

Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below!   Dylan Hicks – Your Famous Footsteps Sofia Knezevic – Sunny Side Of The Street Lakecia Benjamin – Noble Rise ft. Immanuel Witkins Jaleel Shaw – Beantown  Nnenna Freelon – Dark and Lovely Cyrus Chestnut – Autumn Leaves Pino Palladino/ Blake...Read More

I don’t know what the feel is called when the drummer hits a cross stick on every quarter-note, but I love it. To me it will always be the “Swept Away” feel from the masterful playing of Questlove on The Roots album “Do You Want More?!??” Heck, maybe that’s what leader Joan Hutton called out...Read More

Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below!   Ski Club – Swing Tune Paquito D’Rivera – La Fleur De Cayenne The Empress – Nica’s Dream James Brandon Lewis – Exactly, Our Music Rachel Therrien – Back Home Matty Harris – Farmers Market Okonski – Summer Storm Astronomy...Read More

Get Ready for Next Week’s Concerts Now Larry McDonough Quintet featuring Richard Terrill at Dakota Jazz Club-Monday, August 4th at 7pm, tickets start at $25.47 Bill Simenson Orchestra at Jazz Central Studios- Tuesday, August 5th at 830pm, tickets start at $5 Sheila E & the E-Train at Dakota Jazz Club- Tuesday, August 5th and Thursday...Read More

It’s hard to keep up with Dylan Hicks. The man is no spring chicken and he’s still moving around our scene like a wide-eyed, enthusiastic rookie. Hicks is dropping a new album on August 12 called Avian Field Recordings with his group Small Screens and it’s another great set of tunes with inspired support from some of...Read More

There are few things in the music world as joyous as a well-delivered shuffle. A shuffle is a rhythmic feel with swung eighth-notes and a strong and persistent backbeat. In my opinion, a blues shuffle divides the pros from the amateurs in most settings. When a band can really cook over a shuffle beat the...Read More

This week’s hot new local single features music from the Ryan Picone Quartet. Picone is a Minneapolis-based guitarist who lives, eats, and breathes jazz manouche, i.e., music inspired by French/Romani guitar legend Django Reinhardt. Picone grew up in Phoenix and came to the Twin Cities to pursue his doctorate in music from the University of...Read More

The concert event honoring our 2025 Minnesota Jazz Legends is now a one-hour radio special available on demand. This April, music lovers gathered at the Minnesota History Center to witness a concert honoring drummer Jay Epstein, pianist and Walker West Music Academy founder Grant West, Dixieland trombonist Art Katzman, and the late, award-winning jazz vocalist...Read More