The great Cuban American jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, a 10-time Grammy winner and a 2024 Kennedy Center Honors recipient, is back at the Dakota.
ARTURO SANDOVAL
AUG 1 • 7 & 9PM
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Talib Kweli: Among the growing list of hip-hop stars who’ve gotten hip to the Dakota, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-reared rapper of Black Star fame (with Mos Def) is one of the best fits to the jazz haven because of his knack for hyper-rhythmic, improvisational delivery and Afrocentric, socially themed lyrics — and especially because he tours with a killer, jazzy live band. They’re coming here straight after a three-night stand at the Blue Note in New York, so should be nice and tight.
TALIB KWELI
AUG 2 • 6:30 & 9PM
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Jearlyn Steele and Patty Peterson, mainstays from two Twin Cities family musical institutions, team up, accompanied by Fred Steele and Jason Peterson Delaire.
JEARLYN STEELE & PATTY PETERSON: “AT LAST”
AUG 3 • 7PM
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Having just won her first Grammy in her five-decade career, Bay Area percussion master Sheila E is back in Minneapolis for three nights of her special brand of Latin jazz, Princely funk and salsa.