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On his latest album Sampled, trumpeter, composer, and educator Adam Meckler collaborated with several different hip hop producers, rappers, and instrumentalists to reimagine and recontextualize his original big band music. He talks about his collanorative process with Jazz88’s Peter Solomon. https://kbem-od.streamguys1.com/kbem/20260209112051-AdamMecklerwithMusicFINAL.mp3   More Posts for Show: The Morning ShowRead 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

Recently, on Big Band Scene, we featured the Dan Pugach Big Band’s 2023 release, Bianca. I had the opportunity to sit down with Dan and his wife, Nicole Zuraitis, to chat about making music, and life in a musical household. Pugach is a New York-based drummer who wrote or arranged all the selections on this...Read More

Adam Meckler isn’t just a trumpet player. He’s a writer, an arranger, a curator, a podcaster, an educator, and more. He came down from Michigan’s upper peninsula to get his Twin Cities-based orchestra back together for a show at Crooners on Friday (Aug. 4). In the conversation, Meckler and Jazz88’s Sean McPherson discuss Meckler’s approach...Read More

The music director from Crooners Supper Club, Andrew Walesch, stopped by Jazz88 to talk about the club’s summer schedule, their newest performance space (outside!), his big band and what it’s like to book guests for the club. https://kbem-od.streamguys1.com/kbem/20190528112350-AndrewWaleschfromCroonersSupperClub.mp3 Originally aired Tuesday, May 28, 2019 on the Morning Show with Emily Reese. More Posts for Show:...Read More

Composers JC Sanford and Asuka Kakitani are working hard to grow the Twin Cities jazz scene, which is already rich with talent. They started a Twin Cities Jazz Composers Workshop in 2017 to encourage the creation of new music for big bands, and they started a new big band called Inatnas (a blend of their...Read More