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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear, "Walla Walla?"
- Added: Jul 29, 2017
- Length: 06:21
If you hang around jazz in the Twin Cities, you know Jon Pemberton. He plays a number of instruments, he composes, he teaches and he performs. And ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2017
- Length: 08:20
On this episode of The Live Feed, we visit with the combined acoustic and electric guitar duo Land at Last. The two musicians fill us in on their c...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 30:01
Friday night June 30, the Aster presents sets by two up and coming Twin Cities songwriters and bandleaders, Joe Kopel and Warren Thomas Fenzi. Phil...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Twin Cities guitarist David Singley has a new CD, his first in 20 years. The CD is more than a collection of tracks, but a project that caused Davi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 06:51
David Singley teaches guitar at McNally Smith College locally, he plays in bands, he composes, but he seldom records under his own name, at least n...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Aaron Kerr. He’s a man of multiple musical personalities. Aaron is first and foremost a composer. Owing to his formal musical training, he plays cl...
- Added: Apr 16, 2017
- Length: 05:45
This week on Chicago Jazz Live we welcome composer and saxophonist Chris Greene with his quartet. Chris has accomplished a nearly impossible feat o...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 56:59
- Purchases: 1
She calls herself the Duchess of the Blues, and she’s been at it a long time. Dee Miller took time to talk to Phil Nusbaum about her inspirations, ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Julian Manzara loves the musical possibilities that define jazz. That jazz encourages exploring musical possibilities is what makes him comfortable...
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 05:00
We lost another blues great this week with the passing of James Cotton. This edition of The Roadhouse is a rememberance that keeps the context of h...
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- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
While pop music styles come and go, the pop of the big band era has a timeless quality. Andrew Walesch is a young man carrying on where singers lik...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 09:53
The Kronick Quintet: It’s the Variety that Pleases the Fans
What’s the key to success if you are playing in clubs? It’s being about to play a wide ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 07:18
Thomas Torrey talks taking risks, cutting corners, and his contract with the audience.
- Added: Mar 01, 2017
- Length: 20:05
When you listen to Jon Pemberton, the feeling that he has much to offer grows and grows. He is best known as a piano player, and you’ll see him as ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 08:20
Pert Near Sandstone. They had been friends most of their lives which turns out to be a great basis for driving around the country as a band.
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 08:52
First thing apparent is a rhythmic winter. Paquito D’Rivera performs with big band, sans voices, Phoebe Snow is the lost cord (wish she’d survived ...
Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 5
Sonny Knight and the Lakers. Sonny has roots in blues funk and r and b, and has been performing virtually his whole life. Today, focused on music a...
- Added: Dec 17, 2016
- Length: 07:40
Sonny Knight. He’s Mississippi born, but has lived in Minnesota since childhood. He talked with Phil Nusbaum about music in general, and about his ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Rick Carlson. All by himself he puts on quite a show playing American songbook classics. But if you ask him, his peak moments might just be in his ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 09:29
When you think of any kind of Celtic traditional music, you do not think of horn arrangements. But that’s just what Laura MacKenzie has added to tr...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 04:59
Kirsten Johnson talks bearing witness, tricks of memory, and the tension of the unseen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2016
- Length: 23:04
When you see a Roseville Big Band show, you get a complete package: Great arrangements, a polished vocal quartet, old songs that everybody loves, a...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 07:59
To many, the Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis serves as the exclamation point at the end of a Twin Cities summe...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Mike Birbiglia talks pizza, counterintuitive affirmation, and finding the pain.
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 11:21
