The evening begins with an ambient solo set by Mike Kota featuring guitar, vocals, and healing frequency singing bowls. For the second set, Kota will be joined by drummer Tarek Abdelqader, guitarist Nate Walker, and bassist Henry Breen. Band Members: Mike Kota - Vocals/Guitar/Singing Bowls Tarek Abdelqader - Drums Nate Walker - Guitar Henry Breen […]

Bassist Michael O’Brien will perform two sets of dinner jazz with his trio while back in town from NYC. Band Members: Michael O’Brien - Bass Chris Lomheim - Piano Jay Epstein - Drums ✧ Michael O'Brien has been performing and composing internationally for more than a decade with such notables as Harry Connick Jr., Ruben […]

Aaron Shapiro will lead a quartet in a set of original works crafted over the past decade in Chicago, each piece shaped by his experiences performing and collaborating throughout the city’s creative music scenes. Band Members: Aaron Shapiro - Guitar Nate Lepine - Saxophone /Flute John Sutton - Bass Tommaso Moretti - Drums ✧ Guitarist […]

Saxophonist, Gus Sandberg, comes to jazz central with this quartet.   Featuring: Gus Sandberg - woodwinds Sean Turner - piano Matt McIntyre - bass Reid Kennedy - drums

Acclaimed jazz musicians Graydon Peterson and Brandon Wozniak unite for two wintery hour-long sets. ✧ Graydon Peterson is a bassist and composer living in Minneapolis. He regularly performs with a variety of vocalists and small ensembles, including Arne Fogel, Wayne Anthony, Firebell, Snowblind, Charanga Tropical, Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Tropical Zone Orchestra, D’Lakes, Babatunde […]

Known as a “man of great musical imagination,” Bruce Henry is an internationally-known vocalist, composer, storyteller, recording artist and educator. Additionally, Bruce teaches musical history, traditions and culture as he entertains and enraptures audiences with his vocal agility. Anchored in Chicago, with roots in the Twin Cities, Bruce shares his expertise and creativity across the […]

Barlow and his exceptionally gifted ensemble will present an enchanting evening of timeless jazz/R&B classics designed to captivate and invigorate your spirit. Band Members: Nathan Barlow - Lead Vocals Trevor Peterson - Bass Eric Mayson - Keyboard/Vocals Toby Ramaswamy - Drums ⊹ Vocalist Nathan Barlow has played all over the Twin Cities at venues such […]

Allweather is the long-running modern jazz project of bassist and composer Max Johnk. Featuring a richly orchestrated horn frontline and a shapeshifting rhythm section, Allweather exclusively perform Max’s original music- a stack of grooving, unpredictable jazz tunes that are rooted in the classic Blue Note and ECM sounds, but often gesture at the composer’s love […]

Founded in 2014 by Geoffrey West Senn and Mac Santiago (percussionist/drum set), the Twin Cites Latin Jazz Orchestra (TCLJO) brings together the drama of big band jazz, the rhythmic intensity of Latin music, and the virtuosity of eighteen of the Twin Cities’ most accomplished musicians.

It was in late 2022 that Jarrod Lawson had the biggest, and most unexpected, thrill of his music career. He had just received a glowing endorsement in print from Michelle Obama, in an Entertainment Weekly interview. When asked who she was listening to, after mentioning Beyonce, added “There’s this young jazz, blue-eyed soul kid Jarrod Lawson that I’m loving.” […]

Nathan Hanson and Erik Fratzke will explore the nooks and crannies of post-structuralist and restructuralist melodies and grooves. Jazz tunes, folk songs, and classic skronk will inform the proceedings. Join us and become familiar with the unfamiliar. Then, Scott Burton and Steve Hirsh will add their instincts to the Fratzke/Hanson ambiance for a second set […]