Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton
STAR TRIBUNE CRITICS' PICK
After joining Grammy-winning Gullah revivalists Ranky Tanky last year, this wondrous vocalist returns with her simpatico group, Grand Baton. A...
Jan 30
Kendrick Scott Talks Blue Note Records, Lessons from Legends Ahead of Anniversary Gigs
Music In Minnesota Interview
Photo by Kathleen Ambre A lot has changed over 85 years; technology evolves, society changes in a million ways,...
Jan 26
Vijay Iyer Trio + Shelby Lynne
STAR TRIBUNE'S 6 cool things in music this week
1 Vijay Iyer Trio, the Dakota. This inventive and celebrated jazz pianist mixed the melodic with the rhythmic and impressionistic,...
Jan 26
“All Dressed Up In Blue” – Keb’ Mo’ At The Dakota
Twin Cities Arts Reader Review
Keb’ Mo’ (full name: Kevin Roosevelt Moore) effortlessly crosses genres (blues, country, folk, Americana/roots) and has gained many honors along...
Jan 25
Sad and sultry Shelby Lynne seduces with Dusty Springfield songs
STAR TRIBUNE REVIEW
A music stand stood directly in front of singer Shelby Lynne Wednesday night at the Dakota nightclub in downtown Minneapolis....
Jan 25
Cécile McLorin Salvant
STAR TRIBUNE CRITICS' PICK
She is a modern-jazz marvel. The most esteemed jazz vocalist of her generation, the triple Grammy winner, 34, is a...
Jan 23
Cécile McLorin Salvant
RACKET CONCERT PICK
Salvant has been all but universally acclaimed as the most inventive jazz vocalist of her generation, and her grasp of...
Jan 23
Vijay Iyer’s blend of jazz, classical and Middle Eastern Indian on display Friday at the Dakota
MINNPOST FEATURE
The music that pours out of pianist Vijay Iyer often feels perpetually coiled. There is an interior density to his...
Jan 19
Shelby Lynne
STAR TRIBUNE BIG GIG
A gifted Alabama singer/songwriter of dark, painful alt-country songs, Grammy's best new artist of 2001 has been mostly low profile...
Jan 17
Keb’ Mo’
STAR TRIBUNE CRITICS' PICK
The happiest of bluesmen, the five-time Grammy winner has over the years expanded his palette that puts him in the...
Jan 16