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The Bill Simenson Jazz Orchestra’s instrument lineup looks like a typical big band, but that’s where the similarity ends. Bill Simenson leads a gro...
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Joy Ann Parker’s vocal stylings have always been kind of bluesy and jazzy. But recently Joyann’s Patsy Kline tribute show, the iconic country singe...
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Tuesday night is reserved for big bands at Jazz Central Studios in Minneapolis. And every month, the Bill Simenson Orchestra is one of the groups t...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Today there is a wave of interest in Ballroom Dance. Chino Latino gives these social dance specialists the music they need to dance to distinctive ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Pavel Jany (Yanny) is known as one of the Twin Cities’ leading jazz guitarists. His most recent recorded project is called Acoustic Condition. On t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Pavel Jany (Yanny) is known as one of the Twin Cities’ leading jazz guitarists. His most recent recorded project is called Acoustic Condition, and ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Charanga Tropical is led by Twin Cities sax and flute player, Doug Little. Doug began studying Cuban music in 2002, and founded Charanga Tropical i...
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Charanga Tropical is led by Twin Cities sax and flute player, Doug Little. Doug began studying Cuban music in 2002, and founded Charanga Tropical i...
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 08:00
The Kronick Quintett plays frequently at the Public Kitchen and Bar, which faces the north side of Mears Park in Saint Paul. The group’s next perf...
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 05:00
A few years ago, Jeff Senn and Mac Santiago, experienced Minnesota jazz players, noticed a lack of a Latin Jazz Orchestra locally. So they recruite...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Edmund Catlin is a young Twin Cities drummer who, while still in college, plays in a variety of jazz bands.
To Edmund, playing jazz requires a comb...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 06:53
When you listen to a big band recording, you have the pleasure of engaging with a large number of talented musicians. But even if it is a small big...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 08:10
It’s a challenge to be a full-time jazz musician. But challenging or not, that’s what Joel Shapira does. He does it by becoming expert at many phas...
- Added: May 01, 2016
- Length: 08:01
The Southside Aces is a Minneapolis-based New Orleans-style Jazz group playing uncompromised traditional Jazz. They play it the old way, but when a...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 09:10
Tim Sparks is something of a legend in the Twin Cities music scene. It dates back to his days with Rio Nido, where his bandmates could count on Tim...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 07:26
Singing shaped notes is a long American tradition of singing, mostly based on Christian scriptures. As a folk tradition, it evolves with reference ...
Bought by KSRQ and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 21, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
In the old days of the northern Minnesota and Wisconsin lumber camps, many of the shanty boys had emigrated from Ireland. Of course, they brought t...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Orkestar Bez Ime, Bulgarian for orchestra with out a name, or OBI for short, has been performing in our town and more widely for well over a decade...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Music festivals all around the country are great places to hear live music. However, not everyone can enjoy the music. Many of the stages have an a...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:22
Nathan Nugent - Irish Film Editor - Sensation, As If I Am Not There, What Richard Did, Run & Jump, and Frank
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Kristy Guevera-Flanagan talks the terrors of truth, the progressive nature of soap operas, and why it took a woman writer to get Wonder Woman out o...
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 21:10
Christopher’s first produced screenplay is Robot & Frank starring Frank Langella, Peter Sarsgaard, and Susan Sarandon.
Robot & Frank is set in th...
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 29:01
In law school Rebecca interned as an investigator at the Bronx Defenders and continued to do investigative work at the Special Court for Sierra Leo...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Max's director of photography credits include: Boss'n Up (with Snoop Dogg), and Fist of the Warrior.
Max's more recent work includes: the Chinese ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Halfdan recently worked on score for the TV-series Borgen and Hans Petter Moland's stylistic black comedy, A Somewhat Gentle Man, about a man let o...
- Added: Jan 28, 2012
- Length: 29:00
