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Kate Olson

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Kate Olson is an improvising saxophonist and music educator based in Seattle, WA. Since moving to Seattle in 2010, she has done her best to infiltrate the local, regional and international improvised music scenes. She can be heard performing with her own projects KO SOLO and KO ELECTRIC,  and as a collaborator with the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble and Electric Circus (led by Wayne Horvitz), Birch Pereira and the Gin Joints, Battlestar Kalakala (formerly West Seattle Soul/the Pulsations) and with such Seattle staples as the Seattle Men's and Women's Choruses and cabaret producers Can Can Presents and Verlaine & McCann. Kate has a BA in Music (Jazz Emphasis) from the University of Wyoming and an MM in Improvisation from the University of Michigan, and is currently on the jazz faculty at Pacific Lutheran University.

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Gilded & Silver

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Into The Music; Towers; Dear Prudence; Blue Collar; Light Up My Room; A Million Mile Away; My Favourite Things a la Trane; He's a Tramp; My World Is Beginning Today; Midnight at the Oasis; Mercy Street; I Can't Give You Anything But Love.

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Article: Album Review

Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida

Read "Vida" reviewed by Jack Bowers


As you can't always describe a book by its cover, neither can you invariably pinpoint with accuracy a jazz ensemble's locale by its name alone. The Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra, to choose a random example, is not from Italy--nor from anywhere else in Europe. Although born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cassio Vianna has lived in ...

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Vida

Label: Teal Creek Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tocando a Vida; Sea-Song; Flight 962; Unwritten Letter; Scrabble; In Her Garden; Choro for My Boys; Mistlike.

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Honeysweet

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Honeysweet 4:51;Willow Weep for Me 4:47;Free Man in Paris 6:07; On the Street Where You Live 6:09;Roses Grow 3:46; Blues in the Night 8:13; Embraceable You 3:50; Do It the Hard Way 5:15; Dirty Work 4:45; Closer to the Heart 5:07

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The Ink Around It

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Puhpohwee, Concepción Picciotto.

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KO Ensemble Live at the Royal Room

Label: self-released
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. All Pear-Shaped 07:10 2. To the Left 07:22 3. Afterthoughts 04:24 4. Nominally Challenged 06:01 5. Bachelor Party 06:29 6. So It Goes 07:56 7. Weigh Out 06:36

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Earth on Fire

Label: House Records
Released: 2020

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Ease Into It (Single)

Label: Solid Groove Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ease Into It (Single)

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Article: Profile

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Marina Albero

Read "20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Marina Albero" reviewed by Paul Rauch


The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 30's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...


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