Results for "Jeff Johnson"

Tilbury Hill

November 8, 2022

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
March 17, 2022

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
February 21, 2022

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

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

Wonderland

December 31, 2021

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
October 18, 2021

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
February 23, 2021

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 Scenes—with Bishop and Johnson, and (twice) saxophonist Rick Mandyck—is particularly noteworthy. Bassist Dan Dean—with a sparser discography than ...

Still I Rise

By Derrick Gardner

Label: Impact Jazz
Released: 2020
Track listing: Push Come da Shove; Still I Rise; Soulful Brother Gelispie; Melody for Trayvon; Blues a la Burgess; 8 Ball, Side Pocket; Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Trapeze

By Scenes

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: All Day Pass; Anomaly; Highwaymen; The Bridge; Pause; House of Ra; The Reckoning; Trapeze