One of the most revered venues in the Twin Cities, The Dakota continues to thrive in downtown Minneapolis, featuring many of the nation’s top music acts and a good portion are jazz legends and rising stars. Among the bookings for October:
November 1, JT Bates Quartet (7pm). The “hardest working drummer in the Twin Cities” (or maybe anywhere else), JT fronts a who’s who quartet with Michael Lewis on sax, Bryan Nichols on piano, and Jeffrey Baily on bass.
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November 8, Omara Portuondo, World Tour VIDA 2023 (7pm). The “Diva of Buena Vista Social Club” and multi-Latin Grammy winner bring her Cuban heat and flair to the Dakota.
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Bobby Commodore Quartet (7pm). Mainstay of the local jazz scene from manning the drums for wife Ginger, Moore by Four and more, and running sound from the Dakota to the Twin Cities Jazz fest, tonight Bobby leads his “classic quartet, classic tunes” with a team of area veterans—Doug Haining on sax, Phil Aaron on piano, and Adam Linz on bass.
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By: Andrea Canter
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