The Jazz Room: A Journey to the Heart of New Orleans

The Jazz Room brings a New Orleans-themed night to the Granada Theater on Sunday, December 13, with a set that traces the roots of jazz from ragtime through brass and blues. The show is billed as a journey to the heart of New Orleans, the city where jazz began, and it runs for about an hour.

The program mixes carefully chosen classics with spontaneous improvisation, so you'll hear the standards alongside the kind of on-the-fly playing that defines the style. It's a concise set—around an hour long—rather than a full evening of music, which makes it an easy one to fit into a Sunday.

The venue itself is part of the draw. The Granada Theater in Uptown Minneapolis was a silent film theater back in the 1920s, and it still has its original Spanish-Revival architecture. It's one of those rooms that feels like it belongs to another era, which fits a night built around the early days of jazz.

Doors open at 7:30 PM and the show starts at 8 PM. Tickets are $30 to $60, and the night is open to guests 21 and over. Seating is first-come, first-served, so if you have a preference for where you sit, arriving early is your best bet.