Month: December 2016

One of the Twin Cities favorite jazz sons, saxophonist Pat Mallinger made an almost annual holiday visit to the Artists Quarter for many years through 2013 when the club closed. In the three years since his last AQ gig, Mallinger has kept busy in the Chicago area, but “home” is still the Twin Cities. Pat […]

It sounds like the Jean-Paul Sartre novel that I tried to translate in high school French, but No Exit is actually a sextet of metro young lions led by drummer Luke Peterson. Coming together this past summer as a quintet to prowl through some new music, these young musicians had their high school experience with […]