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Bridgitte Mathiasen Vocalist and Song writer Originals

Born: February 3

Newbie on the Seattle scene with her Love Potion Show. Debut release, LOVE POTION 2024.  A jazzy, sassy with hints of blues vocalist! Love is always the message, the intention, and the energy to experience at every show! Love of life, love of self and love of others. A little extra Love Potion, 2023, new release single, written by her and inspired by her belief that your mind and her music makes for the ultimate feel good experiences. A treatment for lonliness. Bridgitte' s Love Potion show is an offering of songs with each being a potion that plays with and saturates the mind. Come sip the songs though your eyes, see with your ears and feel sensations that touches your heart and other times tickles you!

Tuesday Night Jams at the Owl: A 25 Year Legacy in Seattle

by Paul Rauch
June 4, 2021

Traditionally, the jam session in jazz has provided an outlet for artistic growth and musical connections, for younger musicians to play with more established artists. The oral tradition that has allowed the music to evolve and grow generationally lives at the community jam session. It is a fertile meeting place and proving ground for both established ...

Max Walker

Born: December 29, 1993

Larry Fuller: It's a Dream to Play with Ray

by Jason West
April 15, 2001

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Larry Fuller began playing the piano at the age of 11. The son of a factory worker, Fuller was the sole musician in his parents' blue-collar family. He earned his first big break in 1988 accompanying jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson. Their musical partnership continued until 1994 when Fuller joined Jeff Hamilton's trio. ...

DDCF Launches Jazz Media Lab with Five Leaders in Jazz Radio

January 27, 2021

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced the launch of the Jazz Media Lab, through which some of the country’s most dynamic and forward-thinking nonprofit jazz radio stations will receive more than $1.3 million to participate in a program aimed at bolstering their individual strength and collective resilience as essential players in the jazz ecosystem. ...

2020: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what “new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...

Dave Quick

Dave Quick is a composer, LinnStrument player, recording engineer, and Ableton Push player. He has programmed FretWorx, an encyclopedia of chords, scales, and arpeggios for guitar and other stringed instruments available on iOS, Android, and Windows 10. He has programmed DelayWorx, an app that lets you easily translate between BPM, a time signature, and a loop time and the number of measures, available on Android. He played guitar, bass, keyboards, and programmed drums on the songs at davequick.bandcamp.com. Unfortunately, he suffered a brain aneurysm in 2009 that left him missing his right hand

Meet The JazzTwins, Arnold and Donald Stanley

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
December 9, 2020

For our first two-for-one Super Fans column, we present the JazzTwins, Arnold Stanley and Donald Stanley, who got started pretty young (just wait till you see who played at their high school concerts). All jazz Super Fans are VIPs, but these two take things to another level. From invitations to musicians' family dinners to being the ...

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Matt Jorgensen

by Paul Rauch
October 29, 2020

The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 1930's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Rick Mandyck

by Paul Rauch
October 14, 2020

The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 1930's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...