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2018 Ballard Jazz Festival in Seattle
The Ballard Jazz Festival returns with its 16th edition, May 16-19, in Seattle's historic Ballard neighborhood. Clarence Penn & Penn Station, a New York ensemble that includes pianist Geoffrey Keezer, saxophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, and bassist Yasushi Nakamura, will headline the festival's Mainstage Concert. Swedish trumpeter Oskar Stenmark will open the concert, which in turn celebrates the ...
Ballard Jazz Festival Preview: A Seattle Rite Of Spring
The Ballard Jazz Festival, Seattle's most anticipated and community oriented jazz event, will take place May 17-20, and will headline legendary saxophonist, Chico Freeman. Dubbed three decades ago as one of the young lions" of jazz for his participation in recordings with other stars to be," such as Wynton Marsalis, Kevin Eubanks, and Paquito D'Rivera, Freeman's ...
D'Vonne Lewis: It's About the Love
by Paul Rauch
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 ...
Matt Jorgensen: Painting With Sound
by Joshua Weiner
Matt Jorgensen is a very busy man. A drummer and composer, he plays and records with a wide variety of musicians, including his own long-running quartet 451 and popular trumpeter and label-mate Thomas Marriott. Jorgensen also co-manages the Origin Records label, a thriving concern that has released over 300 discs since 1997, and that now encompasses ...
2005 Ballard Jazz Festival, Seattle, WA
by Bill Bennett
The Ballard Jazz Festival Youth Big Band Eric Alexander/Peter Bernstein Group Joe Locke Quartet Ballard Jazz Festival Mars Hill Church Performance Hall November 19, 2005 The Mainstage Concert that concluded the third annual Ballard Jazz Festival featured a delightful spectrum of the music. There was ...