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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 ...
Review: Branford Marsalis at Jazz Alley
Perhaps the moment that said the most about saxophonist Branford Marsalis, whose quartet began a four-night run Thursday at Jazz Alley, was the moment he left the stage, disappeared and left the spotlight to his young drummer Justin Faulkner, who delivered an inspired, disciplined solo over the Thelonius Monk tune “Rhythm-a-Ning." Even among the unsuspecting in ...
Seattle Times: Jennifer Scott Forges Jazz Art from Pop Classics
from The Seattle Times: Jennifer Scott is a musical alchemist, a singer with a gift for transforming songs often dismissed as pop dross into jazz gold. Not that she makes a particular point out of dredging up Top 40 hits, but the Vancouver, B.C.-based Scott has set herself apart from the jazz-vocalist pack with her mesmerizing ...
Seattle Times: Hot Java Cool Jazz: A Showcase of High-School Bands at the Paramount
from The Seattle Times: For the past 10 years, high-school jazz bands from Washington state have accounted for nearly one-quarter of the finalists in the prestigious Essentially Ellington band competition in New York City. True to form, three schools from the Seattle area are sending bands to the 15-band Ellington competition in May: Garfield, Roosevelt and ...
Marc Seales / Rochelle House at Jazz Alley
Monday, March 30 at 7:30pm Marc Seales Quintet with Special Guest Rochelle House JAZZ ALLEY 2033 6th Avenue Seattle Reservations: 206-441-9729 jazzalley.com The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents pianist Marc Seales with special guest vocalist Rochelle House for one night only. Both artists ...
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