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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 ...
Mercedes Nicole: Beautiful Alignment
by C. Michael Bailey
Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Nina Simone all make appearances in the biography of Seattle-based singer Mercedes Nicole. She has been a creative face in jazz since the turn of the century, writing, producing and performing tributes to Simone, Etta James, and Dinah Washington. With Beautiful Alignment, Nicole debuts on disc with a collection ...
Rich Pellegrin Quintet: Three-Part Odyssey
by Dan McClenaghan
What a strange, compelling, often circuitous trip Three-Part Odyssey is. Pianist/composer/bandleader Rich Pellegrin has collected a youthful quintet of Seattle's boldest and most energetic musicians for his debut CD--73 minutes of audacious grooves inside a set of freewheeling compositions that showcase each band member's individual virtuosic prowess without abandoning the collective mood.Along with the ...
Jason Parker Quartet: Five Leaves Left
by Greg Simmons
For its fourth album, the Jason Parker Quartet takes a sharp departure from its previous three efforts. Rather than simply cutting another solid straight-ahead quartet date, trumpeter Parker has added vocalist Michele Khazak, and multi-woodwind blower Cynthia Mullis, to reinterpret an entire folk-pop album: Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left (Island Records, 1969). Despite being far outside ...
Earshot Jazz Festival 2010, Part 2
by Nathan Bluford
Earshot FestivalSeattle, WAOctober 31-November 7, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 Mavis StaplesTown Hall/Earshot Jazz FestivalSeattle, WASunday, October 31, 2010 Did anyone bring a louder, more powerful voice to this year's festival than Mavis Staples? As ...
Jason Parker Quartet to Record Tribute to Nick Drake via Kickstarter
The Jason Parker Quartet, one of Seattle's up-and-coming jazz bands, is heading into the studio on December 26th to record a tribute to Nick Drake. “Five Leaves Left: A Jazz Tribute to Nick Drake" is a unique concept in that it is a remaking, song by song, of the British singer-songwriter's debut album. Rather than take ...
Earshot Jazz Festival 2010, Part 1
by Nathan Bluford
Earshot Jazz FestivalSeattle, WAOctober 15-November 7, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 Now in its 22nd year, the 2010 edition of Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival presented audiences with a healthy mix of local musicians from Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest in addition to the performers that made the ...
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