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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To play free Jazz, you have to monitor what your fellow musicians are doing. So says Dave power, the percussionist of Buddhist Priest, along with b...
- Added: Jun 15, 2023
- Length: 08:00
They’re calling themselves the Will Aldrich quintet, with Will and Gabe Hartnett playing saxophones, Rafi Karpowitz on the piano, Callum Schultz on...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Michael Maiorana is a Twin Cities Composer who does what few others do: Michael composes for bass and cello, low-tone instruments most associate wi...
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 08:00
He goes by Cap’n Al, and he’s been playing the bass around the Twin Towns for decades. But suddenly, Cap’n Al has a new role: bandleader. He’s got ...
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Geoff Jones’ bio includes singing in Sounds of Blackness, with several Penumbra Theater productions, and his was the voice of John Henry in a Walt ...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Pianist Patrick Adkins’ Quartet takes inspiration from Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet. That includes covers as well or original music that Patric...
- Added: Apr 15, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Jazzen highlights the Native American flute as played by Bobb Fantauzzo with cellist Aaron Kerr and percussionist Derrin Pinto. In much of it’s rec...
- Added: Apr 08, 2023
- Length: 08:00
The Collin Roycroft Quartet gives unique spins to great Jazz created over recent decades. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Collin addressed th...
- Added: Apr 05, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Thomasina Petrus sings in tribute of Jazz icon Billie Holiday. But Thomasina’s kind of tribute is to sing great songs as Billie might have sung the...
- Added: Mar 29, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Grimm and Cruz, that’s Jennifer Grimm and Joe Cruz play and sing great songs. They perform with with Joe’s guitar and Jennifer’s percussion, and th...
- Added: Mar 29, 2023
- Length: 08:01
We’re at a rehearsal of violinist Gary Schulte and pianist Rick Carlson of the Hemingway project. Along with bassist Graydon Peterson, the group pl...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 08:00
The OK Factor is ten years old and to celebrate, it has issued a new CD called OKX. Now, as in the beginning, the OK Factor touches multiple musica...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Catharus sings new songs reflecting religious traditions written by Kenan Serenbetz. Kenan is steeped in shaped-note and medieval singing. It has a...
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Katia Cardenas is a well-known Jazz vocalist from Minneapolis – St Paul. Lately, in her new songs written from experience, she’s revealed a more po...
- Added: Feb 16, 2023
- Length: 08:00
The Red Hot Django Peppers has a new CD and is featuring it at all shows. The group plays music called jazz manouche or Hot Club jazz, and pulls mu...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 08:00
When Charmin Michelle and Joel Shapira perform, it’s more than a singer with a guitarist. It’s an interweaving of musical ideas. Though both Charmi...
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Jazz pianist Tanner Taylor leads a classic piano trio with bassist Graydon Peterson and drummer Mac Santiago. Regarding repertoire, the trio has al...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Turn Turn Turn is Barb Brynstad, Savannah Smith and Adam Levy. The trio’s new CD is called New Rays From An Old Sun, and showcases solo and 3-part ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Nunnabove is an all-sibling band that sings and plays songs they compose. When band members talked to Phil Nusbaum, Matti Nunn stressed the need to...
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Cumar means confluence in Irish Gaelic, and Cumar is also the name of a Twin Cities group that combines African and irish Music and Dance. Phil Nus...
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 08:00
