If Happy Apple’s brand of loud, fast, and bursting music—a little electronica, a little Coltrane, a little Cobain—hasn’t single-handedly restored Minnesotans’ interest in new jazz, it has, at the very least, attracted a new crop of listeners to the form. This trio of composers and multi-instrumentalists, who moonlight with rock bands and countless other side projects, are still at their best with their genre-bending, internationally beloved home band. Happy Apple’s live shows are far-out affairs, fed by almost supersonic compositions that feel playful and freewheeling but are too closely choreographed to be improvised. Too many notes? Ha! 416 Cedar Ave S., Minneapolis; 612-338-2674; www.thecedar.org
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