At the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, clarinetist and bandleader Doreen Ketchens finished her set in the Economy Hall tent and announced her next gig: “We’ll be back on the street ...

The end of 2023 was so busy with music that I forgot to start the Lead Sheet in time for New Year’s Day! The Phil Hey Quartet at kj’s Actually that is the tip of the iceberg of holiday gigs in the ...

The 2023 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (CPJF) took place from August 20 to 27 throughout New York City. The FREE activities included a community cookout with bassist Endea Owens; Jazz In the Garden: ...

The 2023 TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 3 to 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and a couple of other locations in Newark, NJ. This Festival has become ...

In its 11 th year, the TD James Moody Jazz Festival was once again held largely at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). This has become one of the premier autumn jazz events in the ...

In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts is a 3-LP album that contains previously unreleased recordings from two 1977 concerts by Charles Mingus’ last band. The band was a quintet featuring Ricky Ford ...

The 25th Annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival will fill Mears Park with music, June 23-24 “In 2009, both the Strib and PP reported that they didn’t know exactly when Lowertown had turned around, but knew ...

In many ways, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival continues in 2024 as it has now for 25 years. Getting officially underway in St Paul’s Mears Park and beyond on Friday, June 21, we’ll hear international ...

Mears Park is the epicenter of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, June 20-21 Jazz fans and the jazz-curious have three opportunities to sample top talents from the local and international scene in the ...

Reminder: The Lead Sheet is not intended to be an exhaustive, complete listing of Twin Cities jazz. That would take a book-length article and inevitably leave out worthy gigs. I am limited here by ...

Epilogue/Prologue: Highlights of 2024, , Great Expectations for 2025 in Twin Cities Jazz ...