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Dianne Reeves Pitch Perfect in Opening Night at Bellevue Jazz Fest
Designed to be a large-scale, high impact, civic ritual befitting a burgeoning metropolis, the Bellevue Jazz Festival opened Friday night with a headline show that equaled its intentions when vocalist Dianne Reeves delivered what should turn out to be the most memorable performance of the festival. A widely celebrated singer with the celebrity heft and the ...
Bellevue Jazz Festival Starts Friday
The 2009 Bellevue Jazz Festival presented by First Tech Credit Union celebrates community and the creative power of music. You are invited to explore and share your passion for live jazz at the Eastside's premier showcase for top national and regional artists. NEW Prices for Festival Ticket Packages ALL ACCESS Package – $149 – Premium seating ...
Seattle Times: Seattle Schools Continue Decade of Dominance at Essentially Ellington
Another year at Essentially Ellington, another triumph for Seattle bands. Garfield High School won here and Roosevelt placed second in the 2009 festival, the top high-school jazz-band contest in the country, which wrapped up here last Sunday. “We kind of chuckle that people are going to get tired of seeing Garfield and Roosevelt all the time,” ...
Bellevue Jazz Festival Returns May 22 - 24
Dianne Reeves headlines the 2009 Bellevue Jazz Festival The new, old Bellevue Jazz Festival reconvenes for the second year in a row in its current incarnation, a full-blown, three-tiered, weekend-long, diverse offering of artists, both well-known and novices, all within walking distance (a vigorous one perhaps, but a walk nonetheless) in a maturing, downtown Bellevue. Originally ...
Seattle Times: Newport's Ariel Pocock Could Be Next Ellington-Tapped Star
The Seattle Times' reporter Hugo Kugiya is covering the Essentially Ellington competition in New York City. NEW YORK CITY -- Newport High School sophomore Ariel Pocock was just one of about 400 student jazz musicians who filled the Frederick P. Rose Hall Friday afternoon for the official start of the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band ...
Seattle Times: 3 Seattle-Area Schools Intend to Prove Their Essentially Ellington Prowess This Weekend
Essentially Ellington, the nation’s premier high-school jazz band competition, begins in New York City today, and once again, Seattle-area schools are there. The 2009 field includes Seattle’s Garfield and Roosevelt high schools, plus Bellevue’s Newport High School. Roosevelt won the 2008 contest, with Garfield finishing second, showing Seattle’s continued dominance of the competition. Seattle-area schools have ...
Eric Alexander at Jazz Alley, May 12-13
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander for two nights. Band members are Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone), David Hazeltine (piano) and Chuck Deardorf (bass) and Matt Jorgensen (drums). MAY 12 - 13, JAZZ ALLEY 2033 6th Avenue, Seattle Reservations: 206-441-9729 7:30pm, $22.50 Boasting a ...
Thomas Marriott CD Release Party - May 12 at the Triple Door
Trumpeter Thomas Marriott hits the road this weekend performing for two nights at The Cellar in Vancouver, BC, before returning home for his CD Release Party next Tuesday, May 12, at The Triple Door. TUESDAY, MAY 12 - THE TRIPLE DOOR 216 Union Street Seattle, WA 98101 Tickets: 206-838-4333 featuring: ...
Seattle Times - Andrew Oliver Kora Band: A Fresh, Old Sound Breaks New Ground
CD Release Party at The Jewelbox Theater (Rendevouz Restaurant & Bar, 2322 Second Ave., Seattle; $12 (206-441-5823 or jewelboxtheater.com). Why are there no new musical instruments? It’s as if the electric guitar was the ultimate innovation, the last nail in the coffin of music’s social supremacy. If fresh organic sounds are an endangered species, then Kane ...
Hilario Duran and Friends at Town Hall (Seattle)
Hilario Duran and Friends, Featuring the Duran/Schloss/Mitri Trio and Charanga Danzon Friday, May 8, 2009 at 8 p.m. Town Hall Seattle All ages welcome. Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets. A rare opportunity to see Cuban virtuoso Hilario Duran in concert with the Duran/Schloss/Mitri Trio and Seattle s own Cuban music ensemble ...
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