Chris Botti
The well-traveled trumpeter gets typecast as a smooth jazz musician. That’s only part of his Grammy-winning résumé. He’s a serious jazz man, too, having toured with Buddy Rich and the Brecker Brothers, as well as a versatile trumpeter, who’s recorded with Sting, Barbra Streisand and John Mayer. He’s also a bandleader of a highly entertaining and musically satisfying Ed Sullivan-like variety show, this time featuring violinist Anastasiia Mazurok and vocalists John Splithoff and Veronica Swift, a jazzer who has branched out with Postmodern Jukebox as well as the hard-rock Dame.
CHRIS BOTTI
OCT 23-25 • 6:30 & 9PM
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Brandee Younger
This New Yorker stands alone among harpists working in jazz. She was impressively adventurous in her previous albums paying tribute to her fore-mothers Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby. On this year’s “Gadabout Season,” Younger is a bit more meditative but no less intriguing. A two-winner in Downbeat’s Critics Poll, Younger was honored this year with a Doris Duke Artist Award recognizing her achievement in jazz. Her résumé includes recording with Common, Lauryn Hill, Pharoah Sanders and Christian McBride and, in 2021, creating a dramatic instrumental entitled “Olivia Benson,” named for the lead character in TV’s long-running “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.”
BRANDEE YOUNGER TRIO
OCT 27 • 7PM
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Since forming in 2008, Flor de Toloache, the all-female mariachi ensemble from New York City, has collaborated with Dan Auerbach, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade, among others.
FLOR DE TOLOACHE
OCT 28 • 7PM
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It’s a big-band treat when Twin Cities vocalist supreme Jennifer Grimm joins the Adi Yeshaya Orchestra.
ADI YESHAYA JAZZ ORCHESTRA
feat. Jennifer Grimm
OCT 29 • 7PM
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Louisiana’s swampy and soulful guitar ace Tab Benoit is playing a special Pantages Theatre gig produced by the Dakota with Chicago bluesman JD Simo.