Sarah Navratil is a Minnesota-born saxophonist, woodwind doubler, artist, and composer now based in New York City. Growing up in close proximity to midwestern natural landscapes and wildlife, Sarah takes […]

The Walker West Jazzwomen Collective brings together women and non-binary musicians with ties to the Twin Cities jazz scene to promote gender justice in jazz. The group performs a mix […]

The St. Peter Street Stompers Jazz Band in Minnesota provides classic New Orleans Jazz for all events private, corporate and weddings.

‘Joe Pulice Salutes Buddy Rich’ is a high voltage concert with an all-star 15-piece band from the Twin Cities. This performance will highlight the music that Buddy Rich made famous throughout […]

As veteran members of the Grammy Award-winning music ensemble Sounds of Blackness, Geoff and Chreese have crisscrossed the globe, performing at the Montreux, North Sea and Vienne Jazz Festivals, the Olympic Games, […]

Saxophonist Andrew Schwandt was born and raised in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and has been playing professionally since the age of 19, when he got his […]

The Larry McDonough Quartet will perform a set of material of Dexter Gordon including music from the 1986 Oscar winning film Round Midnight.   The Larry McDonough Quartet celebrates the two […]

Steve Kenny is active in the Minnesota Jazz community as a Performer, Composer, and Curator. Steve is a founding member of ‘the illicit sextet’, “Group 47”, “What Would Monk Do?” and […]

Catherine Russell: Grammy Award winning vocalist Catherine Russell is a native New Yorker, born into musical royalty. Her father, the late Luis Russell, was a legendary pianist/composer/bandleader, and Louis Armstrong’s […]

This trio delivers a diverse palette of modern jazz guitar melodies, backed by dynamic acoustic bass and finely textured drum rhythms. Together, they explore original compositions by Helgeson, and catchy […]

Guitarist Joel Shapira is an internationally acclaimed musician residing in Minneapolis. He’s a leader and/or member of multiple top jazz ensembles, as well as a master of the demanding discipline […]

Hard-swinging Quartet