There really weren’t any restaurants around and you could park your car for $1. “And it looked like a very cool, kind of urban little park. “We slammed on the brakes at Mears Park,” Heckler recalls. Steve Heckler Heckler got the idea to venture across the river from former Mayor Jim Scheibel, and one day was driving around with Jazz 88 DJ Kevin Barnes. In 1999, Heckler and co-founder Steve Adams convinced Minneapolis’ Downtown Council to allow a one-day jazz event at Peavey Plaza as part of the Alive After Five music series. The internet was changing the music industry and the way music was distributed, and he thought the best way to sell CDs was to have some sort of public event. In the 1990s, Steve Heckler had been struggling to distribute the CDs he had recorded with several Twin Cities jazz artists. That’s a long way from the festival’s beginnings.
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The Twin Cities Jazz Festival is back to full force for its 24th annual celebration, taking place on three outdoor stages plus 25 indoor partnering clubs.įrom opera singer-turned jazz and boogie woogie vocalist Lila Ammons performing with the JazzMN Orchestra to the Emmet Cohen Trio featuring trumpet player Bruce Harris, this weekend’s festival will have the most number of stages the festival has ever had, with about 300 musicians performing. Sign up to get Artscape in your inbox every Friday afternoon.
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