Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below! Vanisha Gould – Cute Boy Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band – Save the Children ft. Bilal Bilal – All for Love The Airmen of Note – Hey Lalo! ft. Jon Faddis Julian Lage – Speak To Me...Read More
Here are the top ten new releases from Jazz88! Vote for your five favorites below! Laufey – From the Start Happy Apple – Vanity Plate Zacc Harris – This Day Lakecia Benjamin – Phoenix Reimagined The Bad Plus – Grid/Ocean Ebo Taylor – Obi Do Woa Joel Shapira – Sleepless Montage Bilal – All for...Read More
Bassist Erik Fratzke from Happy Apple was nice enough to stop by the Jazz88 studio to discuss the group’s new studio album New York CD. It’s the group’s first release in 17 years and Fratzke talked about the life cycle of the band and the beautiful rapport and camaraderie the group is enjoying as they...Read More
Dylan Hicks – The Unicellular Spore Happy Apple – Antonym Requiem Parlor Greens – Driptorch Kerry Politzer – A Breeze Comes Jeff Coffin – Only the Horizon Andrew Bird – I Fall in Love Too Easily Pavel Jany – Flying to Rio George Benson – One Goodbye Baby Rose with BADBADNOTGOOD – It’s Alright...Read More
After a long drought from any studio releases, the internationally celebrated Minnesota-based group Happy Apple has a new album out titled New York CD. The tone of this album is definitely leans to moody side with Michael Lewis’s saxophone frequently taking center stage supported by the interplay between bassist Erik Fratzke and drummer Dave King. Happy Apple...Read More
Dave King of The Bad Plus made time to talk with Sean from Jazz88 about the group’s new lineup and their upcoming show at First Ave on June 10. Plus, they discussed King’s work with guitarist Julian Lage and his connection to the Twin Cities. Listen here: This interview originally aired May 31, 2023...Read More
Bassist Erik Fratzke from Happy Apple talks about the trio’s upcoming shows at Crooners Supper Club on Saturday, Apr. 27 at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. He talks about some of his favorite Happy Apple tunes (“Ella By Nightlight,” “This is Your Ghost Train,” and “He’s OK”), and the trio’s plans for a new album....Read More
Three years ago, I was in Boston at Harmonix Music Systems, visiting a composer who works there. Harmonix is a studio known for making video games tied to music, like Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the fantastic motion-based game Fantasia: Music Evolved.* When the composer, Steve Pardo, found out we were from Minneapolis, he starting professing his love for...Read More
