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New Stories

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Rick Mandyck

By PAUL RAUCH

The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 1930's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: John Bishop

By PAUL RAUCH

The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 30's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Marc Seales

By PAUL RAUCH

The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 30's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...

New Stories: Speakin' Out

By EDWARD BLANCO

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of a ground-breaking album in their catalog of jazz, Origin Records reissues Speakin' Out from the Grammy-nominated Seattle-based trio with guest Ernie Watts on saxophones. The trio consisting of pianist Marc Seales, bassist Doug Miller and drummer John Bishop, were instrumental in developing the label's sound but, it was their 2000 and ...

New Stories: Speakin' Out

By JACK BOWERS

New Stories is a seasoned piano trio (and a very good one) rendered even more persuasive on Speakin' Out by the singular presence (on five of nine tracks) of renowned saxophone maestro Ernie Watts. The trio itself consists of pianist Marc Seales, bassist Doug Miller and drummer (and Origin Records founder) John Bishop. The wide-selling album, ...

Hope is in the Air

By NEW STORIES

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: Sims a Plenty, Dee-Dah, Nieta, One Second Please, A Kiss for My Love, This Sweet Sorrow, Roll On, Hot Sauce, eyes So Beautiful As Yours, Stars Over Marrakech, Low Tide, Carving the Rock, Monique, Three Silver Quarters

New Stories: Hope is in the Air

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

The Seattle-based trio New Stories--with a little help from some friends, and under the producer's baton of trumpeter Don Sickler--has crafted a first rate document to the undersung bop composer/pianist Elmo Hope on Hope is in the Air.Elmo Hope, back in bop's early days, hung with piano legends Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. According ...

Speakin' Out

By NEW STORIES

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: So Near, So Far; Blue; Highway Blues; I Have A Dream; The Jordy Strut; Apparitions; In Her Family; Speakin' Out; My One And Only Love.

New Stories Trio: Speakin' Out

By JASON WEST

Does the Seattle jazz community-that nebulous amalgamation of big-eared musicians, students and listeners-realize the good fortune that we possess as friendly, backyard neighbors to John Bishop, Doug Miller and Marc Seales: the New Stories Trio? It's a question that is undoubtedly answered with countless nods in the affirmative from those of us who have heard the ...