Julian Lage – Serenade Steve Turre – Mr. Kenyatta Lakecia Benjamin – Sweet Feeling Lizz Wright – Sweet Feeling Kamasi Washington – The Garden Path Cory Wong – Burning feat. Metropole Orkest Dylan Hicks – The Unicellular Spore Happy Apple – Antonym Requiem Parlor Greens – Driptorch Khruangbin – Ada Jean Loading… ...Read More
Jazz bands don’t last long enough. So many times you only hear the alchemy between a given ensemble for one recording and then things change up before the next trip to the recording studio. It is so rewarding when you hear an ensemble stick together and grow. Joan Hutton and Sue Orfield did just that...Read More
There are no names bigger in jazz than Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis. And for aspiring trumpet players it is essential learning to understand the careers and influences of these two icons. For Solomon Parham and Omar Abdulkarim the invitation to pay tribute to these icons at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis gave them...Read More
Jazz88’s Peter Solomon spoke with Bertrand Weber, Director of Culinary and Wellness Services at MPS. Weber gives a tour of Central Kitchen, where food is prepared and distributed to Minneapolis Public Schools. He talks about the changes that he initiated with the school system’s culinary and wellness department when he came on board in 2012,...Read More
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio has been going for thirty years and their chemistry shines on and off stage. Tonight they’re preparing for two shows at Berlin in the North Loop of Minneapolis. Sean McPherson connected with Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz to find out about their staying power, the Polish jazz scene and...Read More
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