Month: June 2025

Jazz fans and the jazz-curious have three opportunities to sample top talents from the local and international scene in the coming month, and the music is all free! The 27th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival starts the “parade” June 20-21 with headliners Emmet Cohen & the Four Freshmen, Catherine Russell with Sean Mason, Doreen’s Jazz […]

By Dan Emerson At the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, clarinetist and bandleader Doreen Ketchens finished her set in the Economy Hall tent and announced her next gig: “We’ll be back on the street tomorrow,” she told the audience. On the street in the French Quarter is where Ketchens has become a fixture […]