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

Trumpeter Jake Baldwin is back with another great solo effort titled Vanishing Point. The album comes out in full in mid-August but we are excited to feature one of the tunes this week! Baldwin tapped the same supporting cast he used on his 2023 release Misc. Items, to explore a new set of beautifully rendered...Read More

JC Sanford, the organizer of the Northfield Jazz Festival, swung by the studios of Jazz88 to discuss the 2025 installment of the festival, which takes place July 11-13. The event is only its second year, but it’s already tripled in size. Sanford and co will host events from Friday evening all the way to Sunday...Read More

Jazz88 is excited to be a part of Taste of MN again this year! Here is the Saturday Line Up: 12:30 pm – School of Rock 2:15 pm – MacPhail Center for Music 4:00 pm: Connie Evingson with Patty & the Buttons 5:45 pm – Omar AbdulKarim w/Kavyesh Kaviraj 7:30 pm – Lucia Sarmiento Quintet...Read More