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Owen Boxwell

Owen Boxwell is a guitarist and co-leader of the Boxwell / Feldman Group. He began playing guitar at the age of 8. He fell in love with jazz when he heard Bill Evans' album "Explorations" and joined the jazz band at Hamilton International Middle School. He was soon winning outstanding soloist awards at many different jazz festivals including University of Portland, Clark College, Bellevue College, and Lionel Hampton. In 2014 he won the Ralph Patt full tuition guitar scholarship to Mel Brown jazz camp. In high school he began playing professionally as a leader and sideman with many Seattle musicians including Milo Petersen, Alex Dugdale, D'vonne Lewis, Jared Hall, Susan Pascal, Randy Halberstadt, and others

Generation Next: Four Voices From Seattle

by Paul Rauch
June 19, 2017

Each generation, an insidious notion arises, and is passed about the musical world that jazz music, the only uniquely American art form is somehow experiencing a slow, but certain death. Inevitably, this notion is set aside, and somehow projected forward in time, as a new generation of artists rise to the occasion, not only facilitating the ...