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Kate Olson is an improvising saxophonist and music educator based in Seattle, WA. Since moving to Seattle in 2010, she has done her best to infiltrate the local, regional and international improvised music scenes. She can be heard performing with her own projects KO SOLO and KO ELECTRIC, and as a collaborator with the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble and Electric Circus (led by Wayne Horvitz), Birch Pereira and the Gin Joints, Battlestar Kalakala (formerly West Seattle Soul/the Pulsations) and with such Seattle staples as the Seattle Men's and Women's Choruses and cabaret producers Can Can Presents and Verlaine & McCann. Kate has a BA in Music (Jazz Emphasis) from the University of Wyoming and an MM in Improvisation from the University of Michigan, and is currently on the jazz faculty at Pacific Lutheran University.

Album

So It Goes

By Kate Olson

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bumbling Thumbs Blues; ShouldaCoulda; All Pear-Shaped; Nominally Challenged; So It Goes; Translinear Light; Pink Mountain; Afterthoughts; Weigh Out.

Song of the Day

Into The Music

April 19, 2026

Album: Gilded & Silver
By Heather Ward
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:40

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Quincy Jones, Dan West, BLCK Madonna & Kate Olson

by Joe Dimino
March 29, 2026

We launch into the 951st episode of Neon Jazz with a fresh surge of energy, led by Seattle saxophonist Kate Olson and music from her 2026 release So It Goes. From there, we rewind to a true giant--Quincy Jones--spinning early cuts from his 1965 gem Quincy Plays for Pussycats, setting a timeless tone right out of ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Entre Amigos, Daggerboard The Skipper and Mike Clark, Sam Yahel, The Sistering and more

by Benjamin Boddie
March 19, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Entre Amigos, Daggerboard, The Skipper And Mike Clark, Sam Yahel, The Sistering, Gilad Barakan, Chris Fagan, Julian Davis Reid, Flying High, Joel Ross, Eddie Allen & Push, Baltimore Jazz Collective, James Fernando, Alexa Tarantino, Gafieira Rio Miami, Eyal Vilner Big Band, Dave Slonaker Big Band, Michael Dease, Kurt Elling & ...

Article: Album Review

Kate Olson: So It Goes

Read "So It Goes" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 9, 2026

There are times when an album slips completely off the rails so abruptly and forcefully that it tarnishes what has come before it as well as what is to follow. Such is the case with Seatte-based saxophonist and composer Kate Olson's album, So It Goes, which is humming briskly along, free from perplexity or discord, until ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Monika Herzig, Benjie Porecki, Ashley Jackson, The Falconaires and Kurt Elling & the WDR Big Band

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 9, 2026

This broadcast begins the tenth year of A Broad Spectrum on the air and includes new music from Monika Herzig, Benjie Porecki, Ashley Jackson, The Falconaires and Kurt Elling & the WDR Big Band, with birthday shoutouts to Claire Daly, Patti Wicks, Roseanna Vitro, Sara Serpa, Dena DeRose, Gentiane MG, Svetlana, Jessica Jones, Anne Phillips and ...

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The Falconaires, Triple Blind, Diane Marino, Monika Herzig and more

by Benjamin Boddie
March 5, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by LehCats, The Falconaires, Triple Blind, Diane Marino, Monika Herzig, Dana Legg, Sam Robinson, Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band, The Interplay Jazz Orchestra, Darren Litzie, Donald Harrison, Dave Slonaker Big Band, Bob Reynolds, Lisanne Lyons, Steven Husted, Nicole McCabe, Mitch Dalton, Anna Kolchina, Hindy Bare, Dave Stryker, Eddie Allen & ...

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New Music By Lisanne Lyons, Gregory Lewis & Ms. Raina, Wild Blue Herons, Maria Schneider Orchestra & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 2, 2026

This broadcast marks the final week of fundraising and includes new music from Lisanne Lyons, Gregory Lewis & Ms. Raina, Wild Blue Herons and Maria Schneider Orchestra with birthday shoutouts to Ida Cox (Wild Women Don't Get the Blues), Nancy Wilson, Nicole Mitchell, Kate Olson, Sara Caswell, Nupher Fey, Tracy Yang and Elsa Nilsson, among others. ...

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What I Learned By Juxtaposing Sylvie Courvoisier And Red Garland

by Hobart Taylor
February 18, 2026

New music from the Sylvie Courvoisier Trio juxtaposed with music from the Red Garland Quintet plus Peter Erskine, Tierney Sutton and Irreversible Entanglements. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Faraó Belmondo Quartet “One Finger Snap" from Do It! (Notes Around) 01:04 Entre Amigos “Fue Nuestro" from Joyful Foundation: The Music of Justin Copeland (Self-Produced) 6:09 Kate ...