Free performance in Mears Park, St. Paul

The progressive jazz group Kenne Thomas' Lifeforce, led by Chicago drummer Kenne Thomas, carries on the sonic stylings of the Tony Williams Quintet,  Wayne Shorter and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. […]

Since moving to Minneapolis in 2005, Zacc Harris has gained a reputation as one of the area's top guitarists, being named 2017 Twin Cities Best Jazz Artist by the City […]

Free performance in Mears Park, St. Paul

Improvising drummer Davu Seru has assembled a meeting of friends and elders including saxophonist and educator Donald Washington, multi-instrumentalist and AACM polymath Douglas R. Ewart, master percussionist Babatunde Lea and […]

"Taste and understatement. Swing and savoir-faire. Grace and grooves. Intimacy and panache. Singer Charmin Michelle delivers all of the above and more."   Minneapolis Star & Tribune Born in Birmingham, Alabama, […]

The Cody Steinmann Trio has all the intense emotions, subtleties and angular harmonic/melodic tendencies you can expect from any of Cody’s endeavors. Using the medium of jazz standards and originals […]

Glen Helgeson, Gary Schulte, Steve Pikal, Jay Epstein

Please join us as we pay tribute to our good friend Steve Devich. For almost 30 years, Steve has led this fine organization and has leant his composition and arranging […]