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A Quick Chat with Patti Wicks
By Katy Bourne Patti Wicks is a highly regarded jazz pianist and vocalist and international recording artist. She spent over three decades playing in jazz clubs in New York City and also working the East Coast jazz circuit. She has several recordings in her discography and her CD It’s a Good Day received an Italian jazz ...
Seattle Times: Noted Jazz Trio Fly Coming to Seattle
In hindsight, Mark Turner agrees that power saws and horn players should probably avoid close proximity. He came by this insight the hard way. when a home-maintenance project suddenly turned into a potentially career-ending accident. One of jazz’s most eloquent and widely admired tenor and soprano saxophonists, Turner severed the tendons in his left-hand middle and ...
Seattle Times: Ballard Hasn't Gotten Too Big for Jazz Fest
Changes were coming to Ballard, Bishop and Jorgensen among them. Condominiums, gourmet dog biscuits, indoor-plant boutiques, panko breadcrumbs and all the trappings of yuppie-hood were making their way to old Ballard, the changes literally visible from Bishop’s and Jorgensen’s apartment windows. The density of bars and restaurants, the foot traffic and the changing demographics of their ...
Seattle Occultural Music Festival
The 2nd Annual Seattle Occultural Music Festival is a three-weekend celebration of new & experimental music in the Pacific Northwest of psychic, ecological or otherwise deeply resonant importance. This diverse program incorporates performers & composers spanning the regions genres & generations, mixing established artists, new talent, and important work & influence not from the immediate Seattle ...
Ballard Jazz Festival Starts Next Week
Advance tickets (at discount prices) are still available for all events at The Ballard Jazz Festival which starts next Wednesday, April 22. Wednesday, April 22 - Brotherhood of the Drum performances by groups led by Matt Jorgensen, Alan Jones, Tarik Abouzied and Mark Ivester. Thursday, April 23 - Guitar Summit performances by ...
This Week on Jazz Northwest
On the next Jazz Northwest from 88-5 KPLU, saxophonist and composer Mark Taylor leads his quartet in an Art of Jazz concert and CD release party at the Seattle Art Museum. Mark Taylor was recently named Northwest Instrumentalist of the Year at the annual Earshot Awards, and he’s been featured in numerous Seattle groups including the ...
Seattle Times - Saxophonist Mark Taylor: Passionate Lyricism
From The Seattle Times: By taking his time and letting his music develop at its own pace, Mark Taylor has become one of the essential players on the Seattle jazz scene. While steadily pursuing his own musical vision, the alto saxophonist has toiled fruitfully as a sideman, contributing to more than half a dozen excellent ensembles. ...
Seattle Times: Popular Jazz Singer Kendra Shank Takes the Long Way Home
Note: Kendra Shank performs at Jazz Alley Tues-Wed, April 7-8, in support of her new CD, Mosaic. Click here to view the Jazz Alley website. Of the many accomplished singers to come out of Seattle lately and long ago, few have taken as circuitous a path as Kendra Shank, the former folk singer and French chanteuse ...
Seattle Times: Jazz Artists from Europe, U.S. Get Together in Spring Series
Spurred largely by the controversial 2005 book, Is Jazz Dead? by British writer Stuart Nicholson, the argument suggests that jazz is being advanced to a greater degree outside America — the country of its birth. However you come down on that issue, most everyone can agree that audiences are created by the debate itself. Some of ...
Steve Coleman: A Master of Creative Musical Improvisation
In his classic 1973 book “The Anxiety of Influence," the prodigious literary critic Harold Bloom argues that great poets define themselves through an Oedipal struggle in which they misread the work of their predecessors to find their own distinctive voice. Maybe the collaborative nature of jazz serves as an antidote to anxiety, because the most creative ...
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