The musicians of the JazzMN Quintet are all members of the JazzMN Orchestra, the Twin Cities premier professional jazz ensemble. The JazzMN Quintet will present a historical view of various artists that employed this instrumentation beginning with its infancy  in the swing era, into its standardization in bebop, through its heyday of the hard bop […]

The Sophia Kickhofel Quartet consists of several accomplished Twin Cities jazz musicians, with Ted Olsen on bass, Ben Ehrlich on drums, Lasse Corson on piano, and Sophia Kickhofel on alto saxophone. In addition to modern music, the Sophia Kickhofel quartet will be performing jazz standards, including tunes composed by John Coltrane and the great pianist Chick Corea

The New Standards return! Twin Cities musicians and raconteurs Chan Poling (The Suburbs) on piano, bassist John Munson (Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic), and Steve Roehm (Billygoat, Electropolis) on vibraphone. This dazzling trio creates jazz arrangements of recognizable hits and deep tracks alike, drawn from diverse musical genres ranging from pop, glam and soul, to rock and […]

A group of Twin Cities musicians that get together to perform now and then and explore music from various artists. The group for this performance includes Joe Mayo saxophones, Dave Brattain saxophones, Ted Godbout piano, Ted Olsen bass, and Mac Santiago drums. Some of the artists we’ll be exploring may include: Kevin Daily, Stanley Clark, Kenny […]