The Steve Kenny Quintet

Overview

Steve Kenny Quintet will play a few selections from the recently released “Blue Chunks” CD intermixed with some crowd-pleasing favorite Jazz Standards selected from the group’s multiple years of performances. There will probably be some Coltrane material as well.

Steve Kenny is active in the Minnesota Jazz community as a Performer, Composer, and Curator. Steve is a founding member of ‘the illicit sextet’, “Group 47”, “What Would Monk Do?” and his own “Quartets”.

Steve was the curator of a weekly Saturday Jazz series at kj’s hideaway, and before that at the Black Dog Cafe, producing over 400 Saturday Night Jazz shows. in 2020, he released “Quartets”, on Shifting Paradigm Records. It includes original compositions played by 4 separate ensembles of Twin Cities Jazz musicians, including a Live version of Steve Kenny’s Ghost Suite. in 2025, Steve released another CD “Blue Chunks” at Dakota Jazz Club. This was preceded by a series of live shows exploring the compositional concept of smaller “chunks” of music arranged into mini suites. in 2019 the national Jazz Journalists Association named Steve as a “Minnesota Jazz Hero” for his work in the Jazz community and lifelong devotion to the Idiom.

• Steve Kenny – Trumpet
• Dave Brattain – Saxophones
• Bryan Nichols – Piano
• Dan Carpel – Bass
• Miguel Hurtado – Drums