Results for "Seattle"

Michael Waldrop: Native Son

by Bill Milkowski
May 21, 2025

Following two successful big band projects--the swinging and swaggering Time Within Itself and Origin Suite--drummer-composer-bandleader Michael Waldrop has brought things down to a more intimate level on Native Son. In some ways a return to his first album as a leader, 2002's Triangularity, a sterling piano trio outing which he reissued in 2019, Native ...

The Bad Plus at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
May 16, 2025

The Bad Plus Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington May 13, 2025 The Bad Plus is a band, and a successful brand in the music world. They have a litany of successful recording and performance credits to their history, achieving amazing success while employing an approach to jazz that is perhaps odd and ...

Alex Chadsey

Born: August 7, 1980

Alex Chadsey is a professional improvisational pianist with over 20 years of experience as a performer, composer, arranger, and producer. With three albums of original music and credit on a GRAMMY award-winning record, Alex has harnessed his lifelong passion for music to grow a successful international career in the music industry.

Alex holds degrees from the Universities of Michigan and Washington, where he graduated with a Masters in 2020. In all musical endeavors, he draws from a wide range of knowledge and traditions, informed as much by formal academic training as by apprenticing with master musicians the world over—from Cuba, Mexico Puerto Rico, NYC, LA, and elsewhere. Notable works include recording with the legendary Reggae artist Clinton Fearon, as well as touring and recording with the award-winning, East LA-based Chicano band Quetzal.

Gary Bartz Quintet at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
May 5, 2025

Gary Bartz Quintet Jazz Alley Seattle, WA April 29, 2025 As an alto saxophonist, NEA Jazz Master Gary Bartz has merged freedom and form in historic fashion, in the process acquiring an understanding of the art of improvisation, or what Bartz refers to as “informal composition," in a unique ...

Greta Matassa Sextet at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
April 6, 2025

Greta Matassa Sextet Jazz Alley Seattle WA April 2, 2025 Truth is a constant, something that remains rooted to fact no matter how many times told. That being said, the obvious must be stated here, as it has many times previously--Greta Matassa is the most important jazz singer to ...

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Thomas Marriott Quartet at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
March 11, 2025

Thomas Marriott Quartet Jazz Alley Seattle, WA March 4, 2025 Dimitriou's Jazz Alley has been the mainstage for jazz touring acts coming through Seattle for more than four decades now. From humble beginnings in a small bistro on “the av" in the city's University district, to its now forty-year tenure in ...

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet at The Triple Door

by Paul Rauch
March 6, 2025

Immanuel Wilkins Quartet The Triple Door Seattle, WA February 28, 2025 Alto saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins burst onto the scene in 2020 with his premier Blue Note release, Omega. Straight out of Juilliard in New York, Wilkins was part of a collective of musicians corralled out of the school by the ...

Ravi Coltrane: Translinear Light—The Music of Alice Coltrane

by Paul Rauch
March 1, 2025

Ravi Coltrane: Translinear Light--The Music of Alice Coltrane Moore Theater Seattle, WA February 26, 2025 The Coltrane legacy in jazz is vast and monumentally influential--that is a known quantity in the music world. So much of that legacy is filled with the artistic resonance of John Coltrane, whose presence through ...