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Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Group is Traiveon and Candi, featuring Jackson Hurst and Mayyadda. The group’s music has a pop sound, but the songs deal with some serious pers...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Group is Traiveon and Candi, featuring Jackson Hurst and Mayyadda. The group’s music has a pop sound, but the songs deal with some serious pers...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Scott Mateo Davies, Credit: Janice Jahn
Mateo’s Rogue Tango has been playing since 2010 or 2011, and it’s leader, Scott Mateo Davies goes back further than that with Twin Cities Tango. Da...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Scott Mateo Davies, Credit: Janice Jahn
Mateo’s Rogue Tango has been playing since 2010 or 2011, and it’s leader, Scott Mateo Davies goes back further than that with Twin Cities Tango. Th...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Twin Town Strings, Credit: Maeve Gimpl
Twin Town Strings are banjoist Pete Hennig and guitarist Joel Shapira. Pete is best known as a jazz drummer but has a long-standing interest in Blu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Twin Town Strings, Credit: Maeve Gimpl
Twin Town Strings are banjoist Pete Hennig and guitarist Joel Shapira. Pete is best known as a jazz drummer but has a long-standing interest in Blu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Boom Island String Quartet, Credit: Emma Halet
When you see a performance by the Boom Island String Quartet, you expect music from unusual sources and frequently, the presentation is thematic. A...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Michael Maiorana , Credit: Mandy Faccett
Michael Maiorana is a Twin Cities Composer who does what few others do: Michael composes for bass and cello, low-tone instruments most associate wi...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Michael Maiorana , Credit: Mandy Faccett
The focus is on compositions for bass and cello on this year’s first Vanguard New Music Series concert, this Friday at 7 at Zion Lutheran Church in...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Dakota Dave hull is known for his finger-style guitar playing. But on his new CD, Better Late Than Never, Dave explores the guitar – banjo, an inst...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Fellow Pynins, Credit: Beehive Productions
Dani Aubert and Ian George, known as Fellow Pynins, has a new CD called Lady Mondegreen. On the CD, Fellow Pynins sing and play re-imagined traditi...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo
The Will Kjeer Group is a modern Jazz group, and includes elements of many styles in its playing. When Will spoke with Phil Nusbaum, Phil asked pia...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo
The Will Kjeer Quintet plays at KJ’s Hideaway in Saint Paul this Saturday Night March 19 starting at 9:30PM. It is a modern Jazz group, and include...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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From activism to political campaigns to corporate advertising, the power of music and images is undeniable. So how can the arts inspire and advance...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPCC, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
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From activism to political campaigns to corporate advertising, the power of music and images is undeniable. So how can the arts inspire and advance...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Robert Robinson, Credit: photo by Terence Penister
Minneapolis gospel music icon Robert Robinson talked with Phil Nusbaum about Robert’s Black History Month show slated for Crooner’s 5PM, February 2...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Charlotte Matis operates Blackbirds, a music store specializing in strings, at 3445 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis. The pandemic of course has c...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Eric Sayre, Credit: Eric Sayre
Eric Sayre leads jazz performance education at Minneapolis South High School. Music learning has been changed a lot now that distance learning is i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In a down at heel part of the West Midlands in the UK, a producer with an extraordinary track record continues to make magic. The wizard in his Mag...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Tasha Baron, Credit: Mike Madison
Liz Draperand Tasha Baron. Liz plays the bass, Tasha the keyboards. And then there’s the 3rd group member: Modern Technology. When Phil Nusbaum tal...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Liz Draper and Tasha Baron, Credit: Mike Madison
Liz Draperand Tasha Baron. Liz plays the bass, Tasha the keyboards. Catch their act at the Icehouse in Minneapolis, Saturday night Dec 21 from 6 to...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Space, Credit: Andrea Canter
Space is a Twin Cities Jazz group whose members are young veterans. Members are jack Courtright, trombone; Will Schmid on the guitar, keyboardist P...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Space, Credit: Andrea Canter
Space is a Twin Cities Jazz group whose players are young veterans. jack Courtright plays the trombone; Will Schmid on the guitar, the keyboardist ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: KBEM logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
John Penny started in music as a jazz guitarist, but found that he loved composing. He writes for bands he is part of, and he also composes such th...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Emily Kastrul, Credit: Taylor Doniskey
Sister Species combines a pop sensibility with orchestral arrangements. It’s song lyrics come ultimately from a combination of lived experience and...

  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 08:00