STEVE KENNY QUINTET

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 and Quintets. Steve was the curator of a weekly Saturday Jazz series at kj’s hideaway, and before that the Black Dog Cafe, producing over 400 Saturday Night Jazz shows.  His latest recording, “Quartets”, includes original compositions played by 4 separate ensembles of Twin Cities Jazz musicians.  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. The Steve Kenny Quintet is in the process of developing and releasing “Blue Chunks”… a series of works like a charcuterie of miniature jazz situations.

Steve Kenny – Trumpet

Dave Brattain – Saxophones

Jordan Anderson – Piano

Ted Olsen – Bass

Miguel Hurtado – Drums