Minnesota Music Profiles
Series produced by KBEM
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Each item in the series tells how a musicians is inspired, how s/he works, their goals and intents for their work; in general, how each gets motivation and follows through with a creative project.
Each Minnesota Music Profile focuses on a musician or group. Listeners learn some of the behind-the-scenes stuff related to the creative process. Programs in the series are under 10 minutes in length. They can be run anytime because they are not time sensitive. These pieces are especially appropriate when subjects perform in the areas served by given radio stations.
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Wain McFarlane is a transcendent Minnesota musician. Wain figured prominently is the famed Ipso Facto, and he’s still touring widely with his eclec...
- Added: Jul 18, 2022
- Length: 08:00
No Room For Squares is a be-bop era tune originally released by iconic tenor saxophone Hank Mobley. And No Room For Squares is also the name of the...
- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 08:00
One of Jeff Perry’s specialties is giving Jazz spins to pop music. Audiences get a big kick out of both the excellence of Jeff’s group, and also fi...
- Added: Jun 14, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Piano player Ethan Iverson, bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Kevin Washington play a version of Jazz that is both grounded and free. Kevin expanded ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Honeybutter is a Twin Cities folk-jazz-bossa-nova-pop band. It’s eclectic because its members, Clara Wicklund, Andreas Fenner and Zak Khan come fro...
- Added: May 30, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Minneapolis singer Connie Evingson sings in many styles, including string jazz. When Connie spoke with Phil Nusbaum, she related why she loves this...
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Out of the Box Opera Company Does Immersive Opera. This is opera staged in all kinds of spaces people congregate. It has done Verdi’s La Traviata i...
- Added: May 21, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Minnesota Afro R & B singer Carolyne Naomi was born in Nigeria and sings in English and Yoruba. She writes her songs, which frequently deal with re...
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 08:00
As a kid in Chicago, Kendra developed the chops to do what she does today: When she gets a song, she molds it and makes it her own. In a recent int...
- Added: Apr 30, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Kenne Thomas is a Twin Cities drummer with broad experiences and a bent towards arranging. When Kenne spoke with Phil Nusbaum, the talk turned to t...
- Added: Apr 29, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Peter Vircks is a Master of Approaches on Jazz Saxophone
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Maddie Thies was born in Minnesota but spent many years in Seoul, South Korea. She’s been back for a long time, but one outcome of her travels is f...
- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 08:00
The Will Kjeer Group is a modern Jazz group, and includes elements of many styles in its playing. When Will spoke with Phil Nusbaum, Phil asked pia...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 08:00
In the 1840s and 1850s, many men who emigrated from Ireland to Minnesota went to work as lumberjacks in the booming logging industry. They brought ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2022
- Length: 08:00
There are so many kinds of blues that if you play and sing the blues, you have to find you niche in the field. The Craig Clark band, based in Minne...
- Added: Feb 27, 2022
- Length: 08:00
One of trumpeter Ryan Garmoe’s favored starting places for new compositions is his mood the day he begins a new piece. One of Ryan’s pieces is call...
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Davina and the Vagabonds, based in Minneapolis, is one of the midwest’s best known touring bands. Over tye years, Davina has evolved ideas about pu...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
When Urban Classic plays, the accent is from love songs from back in the day. Why? Michael Bland of Urban Classic told Phil Nusbaum it is because t...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Chris Castino is one of those rare musicians who thrives in multiple musical styles. In his case, the styles are rock and bluegrass. In a conversat...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Noah Strom plays keyboards and Sam Ryan plays the guitar. They form the core of the Noah Strom Trio. The group plays old jazz plus some new composi...
- Added: Jan 01, 2022
- Length: 08:00
