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20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Matt Jorgensen

by Paul Rauch
October 29, 2020

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 ...

Hi Fi

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Released: 1999

RadioAction: Hi Fi

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1999

The drums pound home, and it begins. The title is modern (“Explosion”), the sound is vintage: an early ‘Sixites groove you find on Blue Note. Alex Graham holds the alto, and gives it the high piercing sound from the old days (he doesn’t sound “like” anybody, but that tone is there.) He takes little phrases and ...