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Nancy Harms is presenting her "Ellington At Night" show at Crooners Supper Club Saturday night at 7:30.

Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele will perform this Saturday at Crooners Supper Club's "Concerts Under the Stars" outdoor music series. Jearlyn talked with Jazz88's Morning Show.

Saxophonist James Carter talks about being a multi-instrumentalist, his organ trio, and headlining the Twin Cities Jazz Festival on Jazz88's Morning Show.

The broadcast version of the celebratory concert featuring fixtures of our music scene. Patty will reminisce with several Twin Cities jazz legends, who have achieved local and national acclaim. Among these notables are Russ Peterson (Sax, Trumpet, Vocals, Bass), Kico Rangel (Sax), Jim Tenbensel (Trombone), and Tommy O’Donnell (Piano). These Jazz Legends are accompanied by the Phil Aaron Trio, feat...

Mindi Abair brings her group the Boneshakers to the Dakota for two shows on June 16th 2019 playing her style of rock and roll saxophone. She talked with Jazz88's Patty Peterson about the show and her new release "No Good Deed" out at the end of the month.

Jazz88's foodie, Matt Gundrum, talks with restaurant owner and chef Doug Flicker on the Morning Show.

Tenor saxist Brandon Wozniak talks about his upcoming shows with bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Dave King as the group Acoustic Deathwish at Vieux-Carre this weekend on the Morning Show.

Jiselle McCollam's Jazz Cult plays an eclectic mix of standards and contemporary and original songs. They came to Studio 1 ahead of their show at the Black Dog Cafe on June 7th 2019.

Cassidy tells us about MPS early childhood screening.

Student Announcer Nick Brown giving details about a resource fair for students with disabilities.

Jackson a Sophomore at Roosevelt High School discusses some of the automotive related things happening at his school.

Chanel discusses a State legislative hearing on transportation held at North High School.

Brandon discusses the MPS Data Visualization Portal.

Vocalist Maud Hixson will perform songs associated with Doris Day in the Dunsmore Room at Crooners Supper Club on June 9.

Singer, film critic, music critic, actor and author Rex Reed will perform in the Dunsmore Room at Crooners Supper Club on Sunday, June 2 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Over the decades, The Peterson Family has been prominent in Minnesota Jazz. Willie, the dad, led the house band at a prominent Twin Cities radio station for 22 years, and Jeanne Arland Peterson was the pianist and star singer. All the kids play music professionally, and together they present Songs My Mother Loved at Crooners, Sat. June 1 at 6PM. Paul and Patty Peterson, who you hear over KBEM talk...

The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra joins us live from Studio 1 for a extended set of songs and conversation with Emily Reese.

Associate conductor G. Phillip Shoultz, III of VocalEssence and Chadwick Phillips (a.k.a. Niles) of The Avant Garde talk about their show at Icehouse in Minneapolis tonight called Soul Sing.

Pianist Jeremy Walker teamed up with Garrick Comeaux and Consortium Carissimi to explore the similarities between music in the early Baroque era and jazz with two performances this weekend.

Emily Reese and Justus Sanchez take a guided tour through the new First Avenue exhibit at the Minnesota History Center. Exhibit developer Erin Cole guides through the history of the venue and the memorabilia inside the exhibit.

Pianist Senri Oe will perform his music as part of the Pan Asian Arts Festival at MOA on Saturday, May 4th, 2019. He stopped by the Morning Show to talk about the show.

Singer Sophia Shorai and pianist Tanner Taylor will play a show at Crooners Saturday evening with Dave Graf (trombone) and Dave Karr (tenor sax).

Bassist Erik Fratzke talks about two upcoming shows from Happy Apple at Crooners on Saturday, April 27th.

Jazz88's resident foodie, Matt Gundrum, examines new venues for Bibuta, Cheese Louise, and Bark and the Bite.  Also: an obit for soon-to-close Lyn-Lake deli Mevyn, an examination of the food categories in City Pages' new Best of the Twin Cities list, and a plug for some fine eats at the brand-new home of the Minnesota United soccer team, Allianz Field.  Oh, and our first patio-dining weather of th...

The Greg Byers Ensemble is lead by the cellist and bassist who bears the groups namesake. Greg is joined by Aaron Hedenstrom (Saxophone), Adam Meckler (Trumpet), Javier Santiago (Piano) and L.A. Buckner (Drums). The quintet tears through a energetic version of "7 Steps to Heaven" and an original from Greg called "Diversion." The session with Greg Byers originally aired April 12th 2019 on the After...