What musicians and music lovers say about Jazz Central:
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"Jazz Central is the Twin Cities answer to New York's jazz underground -- private space, word-of-mouth audience, and everything jazz is meant to be--collaborative and exploratory. There's a core of performers who are among the area's best---Tanner Taylor, Mac Santiago, Keith Boyles and more, and every Monday (and now Tuesdays) a special guest and jam. What's really special is the opportunity to hear musicians play in new contexts--in different configurations, with different collaborators than what we typically find in area clubs, be it a trombone trio or a tuba duet or some of our new rising talents on the bandstand with veterans. Unfettered, uncensored". --Andrea Canter, Jazz Police
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"Jazz Central has become the hippest venue in the Twin Cities and the most fun...for the musicians and the audience. I'd only miss it if my doctor ordered me to". -Alden Drew, Twin Cities Jazz Festival Board
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"Jazz Central is wonderful, not only as a warm and inviting room to listen to great jazz, but as a rehearsal space as well: Roomy, comfortable, and maintained by simpatico jazz folks. Always a pleasure, Jazz Central feels like "home"...." --Arne Fogel, Twin Cities singer, promoter and radio personality
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"Whenever I am at Jazz Central, either as a performer or as an audience member I cannot shake the feeling, call it an emotion, that whatever is happening in that space is pure magic. It feels like a Dojo where you go to hear or to contribute the best of what this art-form has to offer from the ranks of our community and beyond. Clearly, the space is headed toward a situation where it will no longer be practical for the sheer numbers of people who will regularly come out of the woodwork to attend events there. People are starving to be attached to something that authentic". -- Steve Kenny, trumpet