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Kate Olson

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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

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

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Bumbling Thumbs Blues

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Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 02:30

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dave Stryker, Michael Dease, Mattias Svensson, Roderick Harper and more

Read "Dave Stryker, Michael Dease, Mattias Svensson, Roderick Harper and more" reviewed by Benjamin Boddie


Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Dave Stryker, Michael Dease, Mattias Svensson, Roderick Harper, Eddie Allen & Push, Paul Ricci, Kate Olson, Steve Berndt, Vance Thompson, Vancouver Jazz Orchestra, Peter Furlan, Gil Livni, Lisa Hilton, Brandon Sanders, Charlie Porter, Enoch Smith Jr., Leslie Odom, Jr., Maja Jaku, Baltimore Jazz Collective, Affinity Trio, Gregory Groover Jr., Johnathan ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music By Kate Olson, Nate Smith, Myra Melford, Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid & Ches Smith, Celebrating Jazz Capricorns & More

Read "New Music By Kate Olson, Nate Smith, Myra Melford, Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid & Ches Smith, Celebrating Jazz Capricorns & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new music from Kate Olson, Nate Smith, Myra Melford, Craig Taborn with Tomeka Reid & Ches Smith, plus Part 2 of a look back at some notable 2025 releases, with birthday shoutouts to Pamela Wise, Georgia Mancio, Margaret Slovak, Michelle Walker, Myra Melford, Carol Sudhalter, Christine Tobin and Honorable Man Bucky Pizzarelli (100!), ...

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Gilded & Silver

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Into The Music; Towers; Dear Prudence; Blue Collar; Light Up My Room; A Million Mile Away; My Favourite Things a la Trane; He's a Tramp; My World Is Beginning Today; Midnight at the Oasis; Mercy Street; I Can't Give You Anything But Love.

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Article: Album Review

Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida

Read "Vida" reviewed by Jack Bowers


As you can't always describe a book by its cover, neither can you invariably pinpoint with accuracy a jazz ensemble's locale by its name alone. The Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra, to choose a random example, is not from Italy--nor from anywhere else in Europe. Although born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cassio Vianna has lived in ...

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Vida

Label: Teal Creek Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tocando a Vida; Sea-Song; Flight 962; Unwritten Letter; Scrabble; In Her Garden; Choro for My Boys; Mistlike.

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Honeysweet

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Honeysweet 4:51;Willow Weep for Me 4:47;Free Man in Paris 6:07; On the Street Where You Live 6:09;Roses Grow 3:46; Blues in the Night 8:13; Embraceable You 3:50; Do It the Hard Way 5:15; Dirty Work 4:45; Closer to the Heart 5:07

Album

The Ink Around It

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Puhpohwee, Concepción Picciotto.


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