Results for "Seattle Jazz Scene"

Miles of Music: Trumpeter's Collection Covers 70 CDs

November 24, 2009

It's a curious irony that at a time when entire music collections can be shrunk down to the size of a couple of sticks of gum, certain music packages keep getting larger. Hot on the heels of the much-celebrated remastered Beatles sets, Sony Legacy is releasing “Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection," a beautiful but ...

Last Day to Buy Discounted Ballard Jazz Walk Tickets

November 20, 2009

Tomorrow night (Friday) jazz takes over the streets of downtown Ballard. Buy your tickets before midnight at the reduced cost of $20 (the price day-of is $25) BUY ONLINE: Visit the Ballard Jazz Walk website for tickets, complete schedule and artist biographies. There is no service charge for buying your ticket online. BUY IN ...

Dave Peck at Tula's This Weekend

November 20, 2009

Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb: A Reunion 40 Years in the Making

November 18, 2009

It is 1962 in central Los Angeles and a young 17 year-old tenor saxophonist named Pete Christlieb has met his idol. Hadley Caliman is only thirty years-old but has already made a name for himself as one of the jazz stars on the rise. Christlieb follows Caliman to his gigs throughout Los Angeles and at the ...

Seattle Times: Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Plays Tribute to Ray Charles and Quincy Jones

November 8, 2009

Ray Charles and Quincy Jones were teenagers when they met in a Seattle nightclub, one of dozens clustered around Jackson Street in the 1940s. They were both aspiring jazz musicians, Charles a pianist, Jones a trumpeter. They were among many now- familiar names who got their start in Seattle: Buddy Catlett, Ernestine Anderson, Gerald Wiggins, Floyd ...

Nov 8 - Evan Flory-Barnes: Acknowledgment of a Celebration

November 6, 2009

Sunday, November 8 Evan Flory-Barnes: Acknowledgment of a Celebration A Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA commission World Premiere Town Hall, 8, $18-24 BUY ONLINE The Seattle bassist and composer presents his large-ensemble fusion of jazz, hip-hop, and classical music, complete with modern dancers and freestyle break dancers. Flory-Barnes ...

Centrum Founder Joe Wheeler Dies

November 5, 2009

PORT TOWNSEND The founding Centrum executive director, Joseph F. Wheeler, died today at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle from complications relating to recently diagnosed cancer. Dr. Wheeler, who was 77, was surrounded by family members when he died, according to the nonprofit foundation that runs music and arts programs at Fort Worden State Park for ...

Wayne Horvitz - These Hills of Glory

November 2, 2009

Email from Wayne Horvitz about this performance this Wednesday, November 4: Dear Seattle Friends, If you come to one concert of mine this year, or even the next, or the one after that, please come on Wednesday November 4th to the Nordstrom Recital Hall for a very special performance of my chamber music. (1) The center ...

Jazz Legends Celebrate Hadley Caliman in Concert on Jazz NW

November 1, 2009

The Jazz Legends celebrate Hadley Caliman in an Earshot Jazz Festival concert on this weeks Jazz Northwest. Joining the tenor sax great are trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Larry Vuckovich, bassist Jeff Chambers, and drummer Eddie Marshall in this concert which concluded their tour last Wednesday in Seattle. Highlights from the concert will air this Sunday afternoon ...

Calling All Drummers! Woodstick 2009 is This Sunday

November 1, 2009

Our 7th annual Woodstick Big Beat Drum Event will be held on Sunday, November 1st, 2009 at the Juanita Field House in Kirkland WA. Hundreds of Northwest drummers will join drummers in 11 cities across North America for the largest gathering of drummers ever assembled. Register online at www.bennettdrums.com or at Donn Bennett Drum Studio in ...