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Scenes: Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival

by Paul Rauch
Scenes'' first album dates back to 2001, but the origins of the band dates back to the early 1990s, when saxophonist Rick Mandyck, bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop initiated a trio gig. On occasion guitarist John Stowell would drop in if he was off the road and in Seattle. The band that began as ...
Scenes: Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival

by Dan McClenaghan
The group Scenes has released seven excellent albums over two decades of recording together, beginning with their eponymous debut (Origin Records, 2001). All of those are studio efforts. The group's 2022 outing, Variable Clouds is a first for Scenes--their first album recorded live in front of an audience, in 2021 at the Earshot Jazz Festival.
Tilbury Hill

Album: Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival
By Rick Mandyck
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:44
Hal Galper Trio: Invitation To Openness

by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Hall Galper turned away from the life of touring in 2000, and eased into the shed," to work on some innovative ideas that would change the shape of the piano trio. Rubato is where he went--a style of playing that stretches time, making it flexible, unpredictable and free. It takes special trio mates to assist ...
Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Beginning For Live Resident Jazz

by Paul Rauch
The local jazz scene in Seattle has been vibrant and at times prolific over the last one hundred years. The city hosted the only fully integrated jazz club scene in the 1920's and '30s, inspiring Black musicians from the south to escape Jim Crow, and find a place to not only engage in the bustling club ...
Mystery & Wonder

By Ben Black
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Wonderland; Wind; Universal Grace; Do not stand at my grave and weep; Mystery & Wonder; Love is Alive;
Light of the Sea; Sorrow; Reveal; South; Night.
Twisting Ways

By David Braid
Label: WJO
Released: 2021
Track listing: Twisting Ways (The Hand/Dialogue/Opening Glimmers/Hope Shadow); Lydian Sky; Fleur
Variation 3.
Wonderland

Album: Mystery & Wonder
By Ben Black
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 03:58
East-West Trumpet Summit at Meydenbauer Center Theatre

by Paul Rauch
East-West Trumpet Summit Meydenbauer Center Theatre Bellevue Blues & Jazz Festival Bellevue, WA October 9, 2021 Two trumpet quintets in jazz are rare, historically and presently. The alliances most commonly mentioned are the bop era tandem of Fats Navarro and Howard McGhee ...
John Stowell / Dan Dean: Rain Painting

by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist John Stowell has spent two decades recording for Seattle's Origin records, collaborating with artists such as saxophonists Dave Liebman and Michael Zilber, drummer John Bishop, bassist Jeff Johnson and guitarist Ulf Bandgren. His work with the band Sceneswith Bishop and Johnson, and (twice) saxophonist Rick Mandyckis particularly noteworthy. Bassist Dan Deanwith a sparser discography than ...