Todd Harper Leads Group into Metronome in Saint Paul, Saturday May 16

About this episode

Todd Harper leads a 6-piece group in a live performance at Metronome in Saint Paul, discussing the group's originality and inspiration.

Todd Harper Leads 6-Piece group into Metronome in Saint Paul, Saturday night May 16 at 7:30. Group members have played off and on with various combinations of each other literally for decades. Todd leads the group through a lot of original music. But when Todd talked to Phil Nusbaum, Todd talked about the inspiration for this group’s originality, the late Carei Thomas.

People in this episode

Host: Todd Harper

Topics covered

• jazz music
• live performance
• original compositions
• music collaboration
• musical inspiration

Keywords

• Todd Harper
• Metronome
• Saint Paul
• original music
• Carei Thomas

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Saint Paul

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