Cécile McLorin Salvant
Star TRIBUNE PICK
The much-celebrated, Grammy-grabbing jazz vocalist has distinguished herself with inspired interpretations of the genre's archives. On this year's "Ghost Song,"...
May 26
Curtis Stigers
WE HEART MUSIC REVIEW
On the second night at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis on Saturday night, American Jazz singer and songwriter Curtis...
May 24
Lisa Fischer
STAR TRIBUNE PICK
After a winter visit to the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the wondrous vocalist returns to her familiar Twin Cities...
May 18
Vieux Farka Touré
STAR TRIBUNE PICK
Vieux Farka Touré: After two years of tour delays from COVID, the second-generation Malian desert-blues guitar hero is semi-coincidentally making...
May 11
Curtis Stigers
WE HEART MUSIC PICK
It’s been 30 years since Curtis Stigers’s debut album, which spawned international hits “I Wonder Why”, “You’re All That Matters...
May 10
Vieux Farka Touré
MSHALE FEATURE
More than half his life—and he’s only 41 years old—has been devoted to on-stage, live performance. Vieux Farka Touré revels...
May 4
Janiva Magness w/ Annie Mack
STAR TRIBUNE PICK
The heralded blues-rock singer, who spent her salad days in St. Paul and won the 2009 Blues Foundation entertainer of...
May 4
Alan Doyle at Dakota
WE HEART MUSIC REVIEW
Canadian musician Alan Doyle is so grateful to finally return to the Dakota Jazz Club on Saturday night. He has...
May 3
Jennifer Grimm Sings Judy Garland
JAZZ POLICE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY PICK
Keeping culture alive on the Mall, The Dakota has been bringing in the best of international and local talents. Friday...
Apr 29
John Raymond + the Kind Folk Quartet
MINNPOST PICK
Jazz trumpeter/flugelhornist John Raymond, originally from Minneapolis, who moved to New York in 2009 and is now based in Bloomington,...
Apr 28