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Lowdown Hoedown

By Jay Thomas
Label: C.u.g. Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Lowdown Hoedown; Melanie; Star Eyes;
Lotus Blossom; Swing Spring;
Ayane; Birdlee; Elusive; Hippo Shoes; Ah
So
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2017

by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2017 Montréal, Canada June 29-July 3, 2017 It's always a thrill to return to Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM). Deemed the biggest jazz festival in the world by the Guinness World Book of Records, it only ...
Generation Next: Four Voices From Seattle
by Paul Rauch
Each generation, an insidious notion arises, and is passed about the musical world that jazz music, the only uniquely American art form is somehow experiencing a slow, but certain death. Inevitably, this notion is set aside, and somehow projected forward in time, as a new generation of artists rise to the occasion, not only facilitating 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 ...
Jay Thomas / Gary Smulyan: Lowdown Hoedown

by Paul Rauch
Sometimes the most joyous and satisfying things in life occur in the light of pure happenstance. Such was the case when New York based baritone saxophone master Gary Smulyan ventured west in the 90's to perform and teach at the Jazz Port Townsend Festival in Washington state, in those days directed by veteran saxman, Bud Shank. ...
A Cup of Joe Brazil

By Steve Griggs
Label: Hip City Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. Joseph Brazil 04:24
2. Narration 1: Dead Mentors 00:43
3. Village Blues 01:15
4. Narration 2: Spirituals 02:04
5. Narration 3: Searching for Joe 01:46
6. Detroit 03:43
7. Narration 4: Jamming with Joe 04:32
8. Bebop in the Basement 02:54
9. Narration 5: Recording History 02:05
10. Thanksgiving 04:26
11. Narration 6: Motor City to Jet City 01:20
12. Jazz Souls 03:03
13. Narration 7: Reunion with Coltrane 01:11
14. Consciousness 02:35
15. Narration 8: Black Music in the Classroom 02:48
16. Beethoven was Black 03:12
17. Narration 9: Institutional Racism 02:39
18. Royal Heirs 03:10
19. Narration 10: Looking Back 00:47
20. Awareness 03:35
21. Narration 11: Leading Change 02:04
22. Hope 04:24
Jazz Noir

Label: Papillon/Blueport Jazz
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1 Noir Medley (9:11)
Touch of Evil by Henry Mancini
Laura by David Raksin
Vertigo by Bernard Herrmann
Chinatown by Jerry Goldsmith
Taxi Driver by Bernard Herrmann
Blues In The Night by Harold Arlen
2 Stormy Weather (4:13) Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler
3 Film Noir (8:01) Dmitri Matheny and Dana Gioia
4 Audrey’s Dance (2:38) Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch
5 Crime Scenes (12:11) Dmitri Matheny
6 Here’s Looking At You (5:13) Charlie Haden
7 Caravan (5:07) Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol
8 Estate (5:14) Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti
9 Golden Lady (5:30) Stevie Wonder
10 High Wall (4:08) Bronisław Kaper
11 The Long Goodbye (4:54) John Williams and Johnny Mercer
12 What Now My Love? (5:14) Gilbert Bécaud and Pierre Delanoë
Thomas Marriott: Balance in Life and Music

by Paul Rauch
If one should by chance be curious of what is happening with jazz in the city of Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest, one would do well to check out what trumpeter Thomas Marriott is up to. Thomas has established himself as one the most exciting artists to emerge on the national jazz scene in the past ...
Jazz Now! Seattle Podcast Previews Week 1 of Earshot Jazz Festival
Episode 3 of Jazz Now! Seattle is the first installment of our four-week preview of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Now in its 22nd year, the Earshot Fest is one of the most diverse and well respected jazz festivals in the nation. There are over 50 concerts and events during its three-week run that touch on just ...
Jazz Now! Seattle Podcast Previews 2010 Earshot Jazz Fest
Jazz Now! Seattle, a new podcast dedicated to spotlighting the amazing jazz music and musicians in Seattle, WA., will be airing special previews of the 2010 Earshot Jazz Festival. Over the next four weeks the podcast will play music from all of the Seattle artists featured in this year's festival. The preview begins this Friday, October ...