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2018 Ballard Jazz Festival in Seattle
The Ballard Jazz Festival returns with its 16th edition, May 16-19, in Seattle's historic Ballard neighborhood. Clarence Penn & Penn Station, a New York ensemble that includes pianist Geoffrey Keezer, saxophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, and bassist Yasushi Nakamura, will headline the festival's Mainstage Concert. Swedish trumpeter Oskar Stenmark will open the concert, which in turn celebrates the ...
Chamber 3: Transatlantic
by Dan McClenaghan
Seattle-based drummer Matt Jorgensen tattoos every recording he releases with a mark of bold, clean modernity--whether working with his group Matt Jorgensen + 451 on Hope (Origin Records, 2004) and Another Morning (Origin Records, 2008), or Tattooed By Passion (Origin Records, 2010). Add in scores of sideman slots. His is a distinctive sound, compositionally and instrumentally, ...
Sound in Stone: Music from the Poems of Sculptor James Winston Washington
By Steve Griggs
Label: Hip City Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Come Go With Me
2. Children Swinging
3. Finding Yourself
4. The Cycle of Life
5. Freeway to Heaven
6. Mother Earth
Rick Mandyck: The Return From Now
by Paul Rauch
It was a cold Tuesday evening the last week of December. 2016 was mercifully coming to a close, this evening, a final chorus of a long blues blown soulfully, and mournfully into the night. I sat at the bar at Seattle's storied jazz spot, Tula's, in eager anticipation of the evening's performance of a quartet led ...
Phil Parisot: Lingo
by Paul Rauch
Seattle based drummer/ composer Phil Parisot has straddled several 20th century musical traditions in his career as a sideman, and member of the eclectic big band, Big Neighborhood. His understanding of funk, Afro-Cuban, rock and symphonic music has influenced his approach as a composer, and more so as a drummer on numerous projects in recent memory. ...
Jazz Noir
Label: Papillon/Blueport Jazz
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1 Noir Medley (9:11)
Touch of Evil by Henry Mancini
Laura by David Raksin
Vertigo by Bernard Herrmann
Chinatown by Jerry Goldsmith
Taxi Driver by Bernard Herrmann
Blues In The Night by Harold Arlen
2 Stormy Weather (4:13) Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler
3 Film Noir (8:01) Dmitri Matheny and Dana Gioia
4 Audrey’s Dance (2:38) Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch
5 Crime Scenes (12:11) Dmitri Matheny
6 Here’s Looking At You (5:13) Charlie Haden
7 Caravan (5:07) Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol
8 Estate (5:14) Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti
9 Golden Lady (5:30) Stevie Wonder
10 High Wall (4:08) Bronisław Kaper
11 The Long Goodbye (4:54) John Williams and Johnny Mercer
12 What Now My Love? (5:14) Gilbert Bécaud and Pierre Delanoë
A Cup of Joe Brazil
By Steve Griggs
Label: Hip City Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. Joseph Brazil 04:24
2. Narration 1: Dead Mentors 00:43
3. Village Blues 01:15
4. Narration 2: Spirituals 02:04
5. Narration 3: Searching for Joe 01:46
6. Detroit 03:43
7. Narration 4: Jamming with Joe 04:32
8. Bebop in the Basement 02:54
9. Narration 5: Recording History 02:05
10. Thanksgiving 04:26
11. Narration 6: Motor City to Jet City 01:20
12. Jazz Souls 03:03
13. Narration 7: Reunion with Coltrane 01:11
14. Consciousness 02:35
15. Narration 8: Black Music in the Classroom 02:48
16. Beethoven was Black 03:12
17. Narration 9: Institutional Racism 02:39
18. Royal Heirs 03:10
19. Narration 10: Looking Back 00:47
20. Awareness 03:35
21. Narration 11: Leading Change 02:04
22. Hope 04:24
John Coltrane Birthday Celebration: Harnessing The Coltrane Effect
by Paul Rauch
Richard Cole Group Tula's Jazz Club Seattle WA September 23, 2016 The calendar read September 23, 2016, the 90th anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane, and as in many cities in America, and around the world, the music of this master innovator is being celebrated in performance, ...
Brad Shepik / Ron Samworth: Quartet 1991
by Dan Bilawsky
Tony Reif is calling a mulligan here. Some twenty-five years ago, shortly before he founded and launched the Songlines imprint and long before he was known the world over for his work in the production and promotion of creative music, Reif went into a Seattle studio to produce a recording for a quartet fronted by guitarists ...
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchesta / Vaughn Wiester / Chie Imaizumi
by Jack Bowers
Buselli--Wallarab Jazz OrchestraMezzanineOwl Studios2010 After veering slightly off-course recently with several albums devoted in part to backing singers, the outstanding Indianapolis-based Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra is back in a more pleasing instrumental groove on Mezzanine, profiling the compositions and arrangements of co-leader / trombonist Brent Wallarab. The first ...
