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Mark Ivester

Mark is a versatile freelance drummer/percussionist with extensive experience in many different idioms from pop-rock to big band to jazz to orchestral settings. He has performed with many national jazz artists including Larry Coryell, Freddie Hubbard, Diane Schuur, Mose Allison, Charlie Byrd and Eartha Kitt. He is currently performing and recording with the Jovino Santos Neto quartet, Sonando, and The Nick Manson trio. In the classical field, Mark has performed with the Honolulu, Spokane and Walla Walla Symphony Orchestras. Mark is a founding member of the professional percussion ensemble "Happy Hammers"

The Lucky Hustle & The Side Show Shuffle

May 24, 2026

Album: The Lucky Hustle & The Side Show Shuffle
By Billy Brandt
Label: Sun Goose Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:45

Jovino Santos Neto: The Music Leads Itself

by Katchie Cartwright
February 23, 2026

Following a years-long recording hiatus, Brazilian-born Seattle-based Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Jovino Santos Neto released three albums in 2025, all captured live. Two are digital-only releases, both recorded in 2024: Retratos: Brazilian Portraits (Audiophile Society), a duo performance with Estonian bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann in a program of great Brazilian composers, and A Onça e o Pajé ...

Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995

By Jovino Santos Neto

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Metamorph; Mais Que Tudo; Caranavalha; Chorelético; Candango / Haja Juntas; Hoping for the Day; Happy Birthday Ariel!

The Lucky Hustle & The Side Show Shuffle

By Billy Brandt

Label: Sun Goose Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Carnival Souls; Hello September; The Boulevardier; Randall LO'Dowd; Bad News; Guns; The Lucky Hustle & The Side Show Shuffle; April's Curves; The Bitterend; In The Shadows of a Film Noir; Aviana; Smile;

Caranavalha

October 22, 2025

Album: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995
By Jovino Santos Neto
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 07:08

Jovino Santos Neto Quarteto: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995

by Bruce Phares
August 30, 2025

Sit down. Put on the best earphones you've got. A seatbelt wouldn't hurt, either. Get ready to be blown away. From the opening salvo of Jovino Santos Neto's dazzling composition “Metamorph," you're about to be taken on a musical journey of intense elation, abandon, and passion, engaging and urgent in all aspects, through the many twists ...

Greta Matassa Sextet at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
April 6, 2025

Greta Matassa Sextet Jazz Alley Seattle WA April 2, 2025 Truth is a constant, something that remains rooted to fact no matter how many times told. That being said, the obvious must be stated here, as it has many times previously--Greta Matassa is the most important jazz singer to ...

Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida

by Jack Bowers
January 2, 2025

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 ...

For Every Living Thing

By Ed Johnson

Label: Cumulus
Released: 2023
Track listing: Little Baião; No Stopping The Beat (New Day Rising); For Every Living Thing; Coral Sea; Where Or When; Balancing; Out Of Time; Love As One; Lua Soberana; Meu Pais