Maurice Jacox is a living legend. He’s lived his life on stages around the world and nowadays the Twin Cities is blessed to see him all over town. On November 28 Maurice will be leading his group “We Still R” through a concert at the Dakota. In the conversation with Jazz88’s Sean McPherson Jacox discusses...Read More
Drummer, bandleader and writer Brandon Commodore is no stranger to stages all across the world in his work with Stokley, The New Power Generation and more. But for Brandon’s own musical development, no stage looms as large as the Dakota. This Monday he and his group NRG will grace the stage and Commodore has a...Read More
Jazz88’s Peter Solomon spoke with trumpeter and composer Russ Johnson, who has described his own music as “too ‘in’ for the out crowd and too ‘out’ for the in crowd.” He is performing Saturday November 18th at Jazz Central with drummer Abinnet Berhanu, Bryan Nichols, piano and Ted Olsen, bass. Johnson has performed with iconic...Read More
Jazz 88 celebrates the birthday of Eddie Condon, born November 16, 1905 in Goodland, Indiana. As a guitarist and banjo player based in Chicago in the 20’s, Condon cut his teeth working with artists like Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden and Frank Teschemaker. Relocating to New York in 1928, he got work organizing recording sessions and was responsible for racially integrated...Read More
Congratulations to all the great jazz musicians who received Grammy nominations for the upcoming 2024 awards. Many of the nominees are mainstays on Jazz88. Here is a complete list of the jazz category nominations as well as a handful of categories outside of jazz that featured artists we are supportive of on Jazz88 (we have...Read More
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