Results for "Seattle Jazz Scene"

Jazz at Seattle Weekly Reverb Festival

October 5, 2009

Saturday, October 3 Volterra Restaurant festival website 5:00 p.m. ~ WMS Jazz Quartet and String Ensemble Every year, Seattle Weekly donates five percent of the proceeds from REVERB to a music-related nonprofit. This year, it’s Friends of Washington Music, which helps fund the music program at South Seattle’s Washington Middle ...

Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet with Pearl Jam at Key Arena

September 24, 2009

Leading Questions: Cuong Vu

September 22, 2009

Photo and Interview by Steve Korn Someone once told me that “there’s no money in music!” That’s it. No follow-up to this “heaviness.” What a dumb-ass. If I could do it all over again, I’d be more fearless in pursuing whatever I wanted. The first reason is that I’ve finally learned that the things I fear ...

Jazz Singer Gretchen Parlato: Her Music is Pacific, Like the Ocean

September 19, 2009

The title of Gretchen Parlato's new album “In a Dream" (Obliqsound) aptly captures the sustained mood of ethereal introspection that she evokes from the first track to the last. Possessing an enticingly crystalline voice and a ravishing concept deeply informed by samba ballads and bossa nova, Parlato is among the very best of a rising generation ...

Photos: Matt Jorgensen in the Studio

September 16, 2009

Matt Jorgensen spent Monday in the studio working on a new CD of original music. Joining him was Thomas Marriott - trumpet; Mark Taylor - saxophone; Corey Christiansen - guitar and Dave Captein - bass. UPDATE: We forgot to credit photographer Tim Tyler for these photos. And they were taken at Two Sticks Audio in Seattle. ...

McCoy Tyner Has Come a Long Way Since His Coltrane Days

September 13, 2009

For all the years that have passed and all the music McCoy Tyner has made since he went out on his own, his membership in one of jazz history's greatest groups remains a calling card. Now 70, Tyner will always be the pianist in the original John Coltrane Quartet, which he was a part of from ...

This Weekend on Jazz Northwest

September 12, 2009

The Seatle Repertory Jazz Orchestra plays Part 2 of a Tribute to Stan Kenton on Jazz Northwest (88.5 KPLU) on Sunday, September 13 at 1 pm. Classic Kenton repertoire from the 40s to the 70s by the sometimes controversial band leader and arranger is featured in this concert recorded at the Kirkland Performance Center. The program ...

Pony Boy Jazz Picnic This Sunday

September 10, 2009

Pony Boy Records Sixth Annual JAZZ PICNIC Sunday, September 13, noon to 5:00 Sandpoint Magnuson Park Garden Amphitheatre 7400 Sandpoint Way NE, Seattle, WA Enter at Sandpoint Way & 74th.v FREE, donations accepted at the the tip jar Summer is making a reprise in Seattle, so pack a ...

Jazz Trumpeter Thomas Marriott Looks Forward to the Past with Tribute to Horace Silver

September 5, 2009

In the compressed, sometimes circular history of jazz, the freshest ideas often come from the past. Many young musicians, looking to push their music forward, are now mining the music of the late 1950s and '60s, the birth of what we think of as modern jazz. A quintet led by trumpeter Thomas Marriott, 33, will attempt ...

Jazz at Bumbershoot

September 5, 2009

Bumbershoot is primarily a pop-music festival, and the jazz programming this weekend reflects those priorities with groups like the Olympic Sound Collective and The New Mastersounds — bands that incorporate jazz elements into danceable songs that contain bluesy riff and funky grooves. Seattle saxophonists Mark Taylor and Steve Griggs and their groups are the only straight-ahead ...