Dakota Jazz Club

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The Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant is a well respected jazz club in Twin Cities. The club opened in the 1980's at Bandanna Square in Saint Paul and moved to downtown Minneapolis on Nicollet Mall in 2002. The club brings top touring jazz musicians to the Twin Cities.

The list of who has played the Dakota is like a who's who of jazz: Ray Brown, McCoy Tyner, Toots Thielemans, Joey DeFrancesco, Ahmad Jamal, Chucho Valdes, Benny Green, Joe Williams, Bobby Hutcherson, Roy Haynes, Arturo Sandoval, Wallace Roney, Charles Lloyd, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Larry Coryell, Pat Martino, Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Sonny Fortune, Frank Morgan, Zakir Hussain, Kurt Elling, Joshua Redman, James Carter, Madeleine Peyroux, Regina Carter, Patricia Barber, Von Freeman, Billy Higgins, Charles Brown, and many many more. Von Freeman, Nachito Herrera and Barbara Morrison have recorded live at the Dakota Jazz Club.