Debbie Duncan & the Dakota Trio

Sept 8 • $5 cover - NO COVER with dinner (of $20 or more)

Wednesday is a Dakota Foodie Night – great jazz, great food and great wine.

We start seating for dinner at 5:30. Music starts at 7 pm

This Wed., there is a complimentary tasting of wines from Trefethen Family Vineyards from 6 to 6:30 pm (please call to let us know you’re coming)

There will also be a special $30 3 course “Tribute to Napa” menu available • Trefethen wines from the tasting will be offered by the glass • Martina selects – a wine chosen by Martina, our GM & resident wine expert, will be offered for only $10 / bottle.

Here is the special 3 course menu. (Of course our entire menu is available as well) -

First Course • Monteray Salt and Pepper Calamari

Main Course • Quail with crispy bacon and grape jus

Dessert • Vella Jack Johnney Cake with golden raisin, pecan ice cream

As for the music, the Dakota Trio has three national calibre musicians who happen to live in the Twin Cities - Tanner Taylor on Piano, Gordy Johnson on Bass, and Phil Hey on Drums.

Tanner Taylor hails from Jefferson, Iowa. After studying with Jack Oatts and Garry Dial he relocated from Des Moines, Iowa to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2001. He has quickly become one of Minnesota’s top jazz pianists. You can catch Tanner tickling the ivories with all of the Twin Cities’ finest vocalists, as well as leading his own groups.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, Gordy Johnson has appeared on over 150 recordings as a sideman, toured the world with the likes of Maynard Ferguson, Roy Buchanan, Doc Severinsen and Chuck Mangione, and released four volumes of his own trio project. But more important is the list of adjectives that undeniably apply to Johnson: fluid, inventive, smart, tasteful, complimentary and complete. Gordy is a member of Stacey Kent’s North American touring band.

Since the mid-1970s, Phil Hey has been one of the busiest and most respected drummers in the Twin Cities music scene. Over the years, Phil has played drums with virtually every active Twin Cities jazz musician, including membership in groups like Eddie Berger’s Jazz All Stars, Departure Point, the Chris Lomheim Trio and countless others. Whether keeping the beat on standards with vocalists like Lucia Newell, burning through be bop in groups like Mulligan Stew or breaking down free jazz with folks like sax-man Pat Moriarty, Hey’s sense of swing and versatility are welcome additions to any rhythm section. Phil is also in Stacey Kent’s North American band.

Debbie Duncan, the Devine Ms. D, is quite simply one of the best, most charming jazz singers you’re likely to hear anywhere. She’s a Minnesota treasure. She won the Minnesota Music Award for Vocalist of the Year so often that they made up an award just for her – “Perpetually Outstanding.” And she is!

“A jazz vocalist of exquisite taste … I don’t think there is such a thing as a sub-par performance by the versatile Duncan” – Jon Bream, Star Tribune

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