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Tarik Abouzied

Happy Orchestra: Baba

By Tarik Abouzied

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Baba; Dirty Hairy; Step How You Like; Reaganing; Happy One; The Dance; Step Slow; Happy Two; Room 358; Step Quick; The Mothers; 55

Tarik Abouzied: Happy Orchestra: Baba

by Paul Rauch
September 14, 2017

Go ahead, laugh it up. After all, how could you possibly take seriously a band called Happy Orchestra, that uses the classic yellow happy face as a logo in this visceral world of jazz we inhabit? How could this leader, a drummer in fact, produce music that is both danceable, and satisfying to the elite jazz ...

D'Vonne Lewis: It's About the Love

by Paul Rauch
December 22, 2016

On the Seattle jazz scene, no musician is more visible than drummer D'Vonne Lewis. Whether he is touring and playing with his band Industrial Revelation, leading his flexible and innovative combo, D'Vonne Lewis Limited Edition, or playing as a sideman on multiple projects around town, Lewis brings to the bandstand a remarkable versatility, and musical identity ...

Seattle's Live Music Business Model is Broken

March 8, 2013

Drummer Tarik Abouzied has a post on his website entitled, “Seattle’s Live Music Business Model is Broken,” which he says, “is about informing the live music audience of the realities behind putting on these shows and what I see as an unsustainable situation, and trying to move past the usual finger-pointing and complaining so we can ...

Hardcoretet: Do It Live

by Dan Bilawsky
February 23, 2013

The opening minute of Do It Live seems like a bait-and-switch scenario; with a band name like Hardcoretet, wit and power would seem to be requisite ingredients in the group's work, but only sunshine and rainbows appear at first. Fortunately, these sounds are merely a gateway into the music of this Seattle-based foursome. As this opening ...