Results for "Seattle Jazz Scene"

Wayne Horvitz at Rainier Vally Cultural Center

July 8, 2011

Friday, July 8, 7pm—Valley Vibes Jazz Series Wayne Horvitz's Sweeter Than the Day + Jazz Night School Performance Big Band Rainier Valley Cultural Center 3515 S. Alaska Street, Columbia City Admission is FREE, or by donation. Wayne Horvitz's acoustic quartet Sweeter than the Day and the Jazz Night School Performance ...

Interbay Jazz/BBQ Series Starts This Thursday

July 7, 2011

The Summer Interbay Jazz and BBQ Series kicks off this Thursday with the Fred Hoadley Trio. July 7: Fred Hoadley Trio July 14: Pearl Django July 21: Stick Shift Annie with Kimball and the Fugitives July 28: Scott Lindenmuth August 4: Leah Natalie & Ambience August ...

Leading Questions: Jim Wilke

June 29, 2011

The best advice I've ever received is “you're not talking to an audience of thousands, you're talking to thousands of audiences of one or two." When I was 14 I was playing alto sax in concert band and listening to Western Swing on the radio during the day and jazz late at night. Broadcasting jazz has ...

Jazz Hang: Tangabrazo. Wow!

June 24, 2011

By Katy Bourne As a writer, it is sometimes very difficult to capture the riveting loveliness of an experience and translate it into mere words. This is the dilemma that I am confronted with now as I attempt to write about a very enchanting band that I had the pleasure of hearing last night at Bake's ...

Portland Sax Phenom Plays Boxley's in North Bend

June 11, 2011

Twenty-one-year-old saxophone phenom and Portland native Hailey Niswanger, who won the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival saxophone competition three years ago, brings her quartet Monday to Boxley's, the lively North Bend restaurant and showcase for Seattle's Pony Boy Records. A stone swinger, Niswanger plays alto with a burly, broad tone and a trace of ...

Roy Haynes on David Letterman Show

June 10, 2011

Fourth Annual Bellevue Jazz Festival Starts June 1

May 15, 2011

By Hugo Kugiya While not yet a time-honored tradition, the Bellevue Jazz Festival is starting to become a regular habit and a familiar scene each spring in downtown Bellevue, whose bars, restaurants, museums and hotels become stages for dozens of free concerts by celebrated, local musicians. Anchoring each day of the five-day festival will be a ...

Barney McClure on Jazz Northwest This Weekend

April 21, 2011

Barney McClure has been a boatbuilder, Mayor of Port Townsend, State Representative, Events Organizer and more, but it's as a jazz musician we know him best. Whether playing piano or organ, leading his own groups, or backing singers and touring artists, Barney McClure has been a prominent part of the Northwest jazz scene for many years. ...

Ballard Jazz Festival Starts in One Week

April 14, 2011

A Celebration of Ron Hudson

April 11, 2011

Monday, April 11—Jazz Alley 2033 6th Avenue, Seattle Time: 7:00pm (Program starts at 7:30pm) Vocalist and author Katy Bourne published a nice piece on Ron Hudson that we'd like to share: The Seattle jazz community lost a dear friend with the recent death of photographer Ron Hudson. For over three decades, Ron photographed some of the ...