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Midwest Jazz Collective has announced a 14-stop tour (beginning at Llama Jazz Club in Ann Arbor and concluding at Berlin Jazz Club inn Minneapolis) featuring Thelonious Monk Competition-winning trumpeter Marquis Hill, bassist Micah Collier, and drummer Jillian Upshaw in their first-ever collaboration.

by Don Berryman Keith Jarrett 01 © Rose Anne Colavito ECM is releasing Roma, the highly anticipated fifth and final concert recording from Keith Jarrett’s acclaimed final European solo tour of 2016, recorded live at the Santa Cecilia Hall in Rome on July 12th. This follows ECM’s releases of Munich 2016 in 2019, Budapest Concert in 2020, and Bordeaux Concert in 2022, and New VIena in 2025. The album contains 10 tracks of spontaneous and spellbinding music.

For a generation of listeners, a few notes are all it takes. That warm, unmistakable flugelhorn sound enters over an easy electric groove, the melody rises, and suddenly it is 1978 again. Chuck Mangione’s “Feels So Good” became one of the most recognizable instrumental recordings of its era — an extraordinary crossover success that carried the sound of a jazz horn into millions of homes, cars, radios and record collections. It was a remarkable achievement.

By Don Berryman Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo at Berlin Jazz Club, Minneapolis 12/6/25 by Don Berryman Alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón and pianist Luis Perdomo have just released El Arte Del Bolero Vol.3, their third volume of Latin American music. After listening to it I am sure it will be as loved as their first two installments which were both warmly received.

Joe Pulice ©Andrea Canter The 2026 Dakota Block Party will present a lineup of more than a dozen free musical acts throughout the afternoon and evening, along with food and beverage offerings from Dakota and local partners. Performers include Karrin Allyson,  The Sounds of Blackness featuring. Jamecia Bennett, The New Standards, Moore by Four, Lucia Sarmiento, Joe Pulice Big Band, Southside Aces, and more.

By Don Berryman GoldingsBernsteinStewart by Kevin Scanlon- With a sophisticated groove, Hammond B3 organist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and drummer Bill Stewart comprise a group that is arguably the finest jazz organ trio performing today. Each member is a modern jazz master in his own right with resumes listing collaborations with a who’s who of jazz from the 90’s and into the new millenium.

Dave Karr in the Dunsmore Room (Crooners), 2016 Dave Karr, Mulligan’s Stew at the 2004 Twin Cities Jazz Festival One of the busiest musicians throughout his career and one of the most beloved by colleagues and jazz fans alike, saxophone master and Minnesota Jazz Legend Dave Karr passed away July 19th  at age 96.

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The Steve Kenny Quintet will play a special show with elements of tribute to Sonny Rollins in recognition of his recent passing. The show will also include some Miles Davis material celebrating his 100th birthday. Also, there will be a Chuck Mangione tune or two in tribute to the late, great flugelhornist, composer and bandleader. The quintet includes Steve Kenny on Trumpet, Dave Brattain on Saxophones, Bryan Nichols on Piano, Chris Bates on Bass, and Miguel Hurtado on Drums.

by Don Berryman Bassist and composer Steve Swallow has released a finely crafted new album, Winter Songs, on ECM records with a seasoned sextet that includes Chris Cheek on tenor saxophone, Mike Rodriguez on trumpet, Steve Cardenas on guitar, Gil Goldstein on piano, and Adam Nussbaum on drums. It is Steve Swallow’s first release as a leader since Into The Woodworks, 2013, and his first recorded appearance on ECM; after John Scofield’s Swallow Tales and Carla Bley’s Life Goes On in 2020.