Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival hosts a press conference Thursday, November 4 at 2 p.m. in which National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia will announce the recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships for 2005. The press conference will take place at On the Boards, 100 W. Roy, in Seattle's lower Queen Anne area.
The press conference includes a musical performance by NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson and a combo from Seattle's award-winning Garfield High School jazz program. Also performing will be members of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (SRJO) with whom Golson will be in residence from November 4 to 7 within the Earshot Jazz Festival.
Chairman Gioia will be joined by the NEA's Director of Music and Opera, Wayne Brown, and Deputy Director A.B. Spellman. Also in Seattle for the event will be the Director of the International Association for Jazz Education, Bill McFarlin, and Margaret Lioi, President of Chamber Music America. John Gilbreath, Executive Director of Earshot Jazz, will serve as host.
The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships are the highest honor in jazz. Initiated in 1982, the program has been recently expanded under Chairman Gioia to include more artists and outreach programs, including touring and educational components. This year seven living legends of American music will be honored.
The press conference is free and open to the public, with doors opening at 1:30pm, at 100 W. Roy. There will be a small reception in the lobby immediately following the event.
The Earshot Jazz Festival continues in Seattle through November 7th.
Earshot Jazz
3429 Fremont Pl N #309
Seattle, WA 98103-8650
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Art of Jazz - Seattle Art Museum, Downtown Lobby
2nd Thursday of each month, 5:30pm
September 9 - Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Nonet
October 14 - Geoffrey Keezer
November 11 - The Tiptons
December 9 - Larry Fuller Trio
Earshot Jazz Festival: “Now THAT'S a jazz festival!"
October 17 to November 7, 2004
55 concerts over 17 days in venues all around Seattle! Including:
Jim Hall Trio; Hermeto Pascoal group plus Monica Salmaso; Gonzalo Rubalcaba; Rokia Traore'; Randy Weston Trio plus Obo Addy; Brad Mehldau; Abdullah Ibrahim Trio; Benny Golson in residency with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra; Don Byron's Lester Young Tribute with Jason Moran; Tinarawen; Sex Mob; Grant Calvin Weston & Skerik; Yosuke Yamishita trio; Poetry for Peace with Ishmael Reed and the Gary Bartz Quartet; Instant Composer's Pool from Amsterdam; Bud Shank/Bill Mays and the Ramsey/Kleeb Orchestra; Garfield and Roosevelt High School Bands with special guest Nicholas Payton; Paul Rucker Group; and a special premiere of the Earshot Jazz Commissioned work, JOE HILL, by Wayne Horvitz, with Paul Magid and Bill Frisell, Danny Barnes, Robin Holcomb, Rinde Eckert, and a 22-piece chamber orchestra. Plus more artists to be added soon.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
