Dizzy Gillespie

The best Twin Cities concerts: 4/10-4/16

If you can brave the weather, there's plenty of music going on this week. Thursday, twenty one pilots play a sold-out show at the Triple Rock while Boz Scaggs makes an appearance at the State Theatre. Friday night, Zoo Animal will be at the Icehouse, Ex Nuns rock Cause, Edward the Confesso ... More >>

Paquito D'Rivera & the Assad Brothers

Critics' Picks: Atmosphere, Get Cryphy, Souljazz Orchestra, and more

The Souljazz Orchestra

Yo La Tengo, Twin Cities Jazz Festival, and more

2011 Twin Cities Jazz Festival

Lee Ritenour

Critics' Picks: Subhumans, Jeff Beck, House of Pain, and more

It's Summertime

So hush now, little babies

Things to Come: 21st Century Dizzy

Jazz composer Russell dead at 86

George Russell was one of jazz's most innovative composers, and also its first theoretician.

James Moody

Yusef Lateef: The Gentle Giant

Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz

Global Drum Project

Tribute to Ray Brown

Britt Robson's 100 Best CDs of 2006

(Some of) All That Jazz

Swinging and swooning over 10 of 2006's best jazz albums

City Planner: Monday 11/27

Free Will Astrology

The Sound Unseen Festival, Oct. 7-16

Bop Lives!

A recently discovered concert recording finds Bird and Diz at their peaks

Bop Lives!

Hip hop is doomed, but hip is forever

The Horny Horns

Doping with dizzy, plotting with Brando, and crashing Don King's orgy

Eight Ball, Side Pocket

The winning sound of Roy Haynes, father of modern jazz drumming

Personal Bests

The Year's Local Favorites

Old School

Pausing a beat for bassist Ray Brown

Is All That Jazz?

Savoring the variably spicy JVC jazz festival

'Trane Travel

Jazz Tributes to Coltrane, Parker, and Hendrix

Ode to Joy

Blissing Out on Cuban-Born Jazz Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba

various artists: Cuba Eterno: La Colección Cubana

Hello Pasty

Is the white minstrelsy of the Insane Clown Posse more than skin-deep?

Ill Communicator

Yusef Lateef: The Man With the Big Front Yard

Wax Museum

Just Your Favorite DJ Savior: DJ Premier creates a mix-tape masterpiece.

Flying Colors & The Montreal Tapes

Mill City Music Festival Highlights

Roy Hargrove

BLUES, JAZZ, ETC.