The Artists' Quarter Jazz Club: Live Music in Downtown Saint Paul, MN

The highly anticipated release of Happy Apple’s new CD Back on Top (Sunnyside Records) finds the lads, well, back on top. Not that they ever abandoned that post. Entering the second decade of their melodic-yet-quixotic (in a good way) musical journey, the Apples weld rock dynamics and aural humor to their space probe of inter-stellar jazz grooves. Join Dave King (drums), Erik Fratzke (bass) and Michael Lewis (sax) in celebration of the launch of their latest sonic missive.

Click here to read a Jazz Police preview .

Thursday, August 30, How Birds Work (9 pm, $4)

Thursday, 30 August 2007

Fiery chops, instinctual communal listening skills, sprawling musical vocabulary, dynamics in flight -- that's How Birds Work. On their CD "Live at the Artists' Quarter," HBW go from hard bop explorations to fusion-istic workouts to elegant melodicism on tracks like Coltrane's "Equinox," Wayne Shorter's "Footprints," and Peter Schimke's moving original "Vow." A recent Mpls/St. Paul magazine feature article described the sound as "swinging with lovely aggression -- and never swirling among the musicians for their own benefit, but constantly heading straight toward audience." Dean Granros (guitar), Peter Schimke (keyboards), Chris Bates (bass), Kenny Horst (drums).

Wednesday, August 29, Lucia Newell (9 pm, $4)

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Jazz vocalist Lucia Newell leads her top-notch quartet (which includes pianist Phil Aaron, bassist Gordy Johnson and drummer Kenny Horst) through an enchanted evening of soulful sambas, scat and Strayhorn. An AQ favorite, Lucia Newell is a vocalist of extraordinary ability and musical depth, truly a jazz musician. Check out this video clip .

“As reader or singer, Lucia Newell is a magnificent interpreter who communicates through intonation, phrasing, faultless diction (in two languages) and a husky contralto... Lucia turns her heart inside out, filling the air with the emptiness and despair the lyrics demand.” - Andrea Canter, Jazz Police

Tuesday, August 28, B-3 Organ Night with the Tuesday Night Band (9 pm, $4)

Tuesday, 28 August 2007

Hammond B-3 organ lovers have been flocking to the AQ on Tuesday nights for over a decade to get a soulful dose of funky jazz. The Tuesday Night Band features "Downtown" Bill Brown (Hammond B-3), Billy Franze (guitar), Gary Berg (sax) and Kenny Horst (drums) + guests! Nothing but a party every Tuesday night. There's no stopping the groove. Check out this video clip featuring Billy Franze on Wes Montgomery's "Road Song" .

Monday, August 27, Green (7:30 pm)/Open Mic (9:00 pm)

Monday, 27 August 2007

Green is a burning post-bop quartet featuring Zack Lozier on trumpet, Rob Dewey on piano, Rich Casey on bass, and Scotty Schultz on drums. Open mic is whatever you make it. Come read your stuff, or someone else's.

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