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Formed in 2006, Atlantis Quartet is at the forefront of the twin cities modern jazz scene, having toured the Midwest and East Coast while releasing five albums to critical acclaim. JazzTimes’ Bill Milkowski calls the band “startlingly original” and both the City Pages and Star Tribune have named them Best Twin Cities Jazz Artist (2011, […]
8:30pm Lifeforce Rich Manik - Saxophones, Dave Graf - Trombone, Ted Godbout - Piano, Charlie Lincoln - Bass, Kenne Thomas - Drums 7:00 Opening Set - Trish Hurd-Paczowski Quartet Trish Hurd-Paczowski - Piano, Peter Goggin - Alto Sax, Adam Harder Nussbaum - Drums, Kameron Markworth - Bass
In Person and Livestream options available. Instructional Guest Artist Adi Yeshaya is an Israeli-American composer, arranger and jazz pianist. Graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, Adi has been active, both as a musician and educator for nearly four decades. His credentials include arranging and orchestration for many artists, including Prince, Whitney Houston, Aretha […]
Laura Caviani has performed and recorded for over 15 years. The Minneapolis Star Tribune hailed her debut CD, Dreamlife as "...in a word, outstanding". Marian McPartland called it "...sparkling and inventive". Her second release, As One, was touted as "stunningly fresh" by Jazz Times. Her holiday album, Angels We Haven't Heard, was considered "this season's finest […]
Matthew Whitaker grew up surrounded by music. At 9 years old, Matthew began teaching himself how to play the Hammond B3 organ and 4 years later, he became the youngest artist to be endorsed by Hammond in its 80+ year history. By age 15, he was also named a Yamaha Artist, becoming the youngest musician to join the stellar […]
WEEK #3 FEATURING: SET I: KRISSY BERGMARK + BRYAN NICHOLS + CODY MCKINNEY + ERIK FRATZKE SET II JESSE WHITNEY
Enigmatic guitarist Marc Ribot has released 6 very diverse solo guitar albums: (including John Zorn’s Book of Heads, Plays the Works of Frantz Casseus, Saints, Don’t Blame Me, Exercises in Futility) and 2010's, Silent Movies (Pi Recordings) has been described as a "down-in-mouth-near master piece" by the Village Voice and has landed on several Best of 2010 lists including the LA Times […]
Kenny Horst - drums, Will Kjeer - piano, Chris Bates - bass, Pete Whitman - sax
As part of the symposium, performances by Simon Harding, Paul Harper, Joe Mayo, and Pete Whitman on Sax. Laura Caviani - Piano Kam Markworth - Bass Mac Santiago - Drums
Songwriter and novelist Dylan Hicks will perform new and not-quite-as-new material with a sextet featuring Zacc Harris, Michelle Kinney, Christopher Thomson, Charlie Lincoln, and Peter Hennig. For the first set, the group will "open for itself” with a mix of solo, duo, and group pieces, improvisations, and experiments more or less distinct from the song-based […]
