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Best of the Best: Jazz From Detroit
by Paul Rauch
Best of the Best: Jazz From DetroitMagic Circle Productions LLC2025 The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward spread the sounds that we know ...
David G White: While You Were Sleeping
by Paul Rauch
Guitarist David G. White has an independent streak in him that has endured from his early days on the scene in Boston and New York in the 1990s. Grounded, like most fusion-oriented players, in bebop language, White learned the nuances of jazz improvisation from his mentor Charlie Shoemake in Los Angeles. Now based in Oakland, his ...
Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre at Jazz Alley
by Paul Rauch
Oscar Hernández & Alma LibreJazz AlleySeattle WANovember 19, 2025 The appearance of legendary Latin jazz pianist Oscar Hernandez at Jazz Alley brought with it a special designation. His performances in Seattle have largely been as part of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, the award-winning ensemble that Hernandez leads. His Alma Libre ...
The Monday Night Jam at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship
by Paul Rauch
Beginning on January 20, 2025, the weekly Monday night jam session at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship became something very different from any session that had historicially taken place in Seattle--it became an extremely popular weekly destination for gen-z patrons in their teens and twenties looking for a place to socialize and dig into an art form ...
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Kelsey Mines
Kelsey Mines is a bassist, vocalist and composer that premiers new original music that seeks to intersect activism, community and art. Born and raised in Seattle, Kelsey grew up on the music made in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from the University of Washington, and a Master of Music in Double Bass Performance from Arizona State University. A recipient of the Holland Scholarship, Kelsey followed her passion for the double bass to the Netherlands, where she studied at Prince Claus Conservatoire before returning to Seattle where she has fully established herself as an important voice in the scene as both a performer and educator.
2025 Detroit Jazz Festival: All Free, All Jazz
by Paul Rauch
2025 Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza & Cadillac Square Detroit, MI August 28-September 1, 2025 There is a story Detroit Jazz Festival President and Artistic Director Chris Collins loves to tell about an intimate conversation he had with Gretchen Valade. Valade had rescued the festival from the brink of financial demise ...
Robin Holcomb & Peggy Lee: Behind The Delicate Sound Of 'Reno'
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on composer and pianist Robin Holcomb and cellist Peggy Lee.These two musicians have been creating music together for the better part of two decades. Their new album, Reno (Songlines), captures something rare: the kind of musical conversation that happens when two artists know each other's musical language inside and out. ...
Downtown Tacoma Blues And Jazz Festival 2025
by Geoff Anderson
Downtown Tacoma Blues and Jazz Festival Tacoma, Washington August 24, 2025 .Tacoma, Washington held its first annual Downtown Tacoma Blues and Jazz Festival on August 24, 2025, with a first-class lineup of new blues players, veterans and some in between. And it was free. For each band, the leader's name ...
Jovino Santos Neto Quarteto: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995
by Bruce Phares
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 ...
Ravi Coltrane Quartet: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
by Paul Rauch
Ravi Coltrane Quartet Jazz Alley Seattle, WA August 21, 2025 I suppose there are still those who attend Ravi Coltrane sets out of curiosity, or some attempt to somehow access the Coltrane legacy in real time. It's true that the son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane has not been one ...
