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The Best Jazz Club in the Midwest

by Cristina Cordova
posted on Mar. 25, 2008 - 11:05am

While I appreciated the long-overdue article on Lowell Pickett and the Dakota ("Planet Pickett," February 2008), I did not like the implication that St. Paul jazz fans won't cross the river. As someone who's been attending Dakota shows since 1988, I don't care if it is in St. Anthony, Sauk Centre, or Staggerford—it is the best jazz club in the Midwest.

Planet Pickett

by Britt Robson
posted on Jan. 23, 2008 - 2:04pm

A gauntlet of black-and-white portraits of jazz luminaries lines the walls of the Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant on the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. Nearly all of these musicians have appeared at the Dakota in one of its two incarnations. The trick with this sort of self-promotion-as-interior-decoration is in the execution.

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