Results for "Seattle"

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News: Event

Tonight: Free Touring Seminar on Ustream by Jason Parker

June 2, 2010

I will be giving a FREE touring seminar on Ustream tonight at 6:00pm Pacific Time! I just returned from a two-week West Coast tour with my band, The Jason Parker Quartet. The tour was a huge success on all fronts, and I learned a ton acting as booking agent, PR firm, marketing director, tour manager, driver, ...

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News: Festival

Terence Blanchard Headlines All-Star Line-up at Bellevue Jazz Festival

June 1, 2010

Whether intentional or not, the organizers of the 2010 Bellevue Jazz Festival could not have picked a more appropriate headline act than trumpeter Terence Blanchard. His career represents all the aspirations of the three-year-old festival, to be commercially successful, critically respected, and to be involved and invested in its community's culture and education. Blanchard, who performs ...

125

News: Award / Grant

Hadley Caliman, Origin Records and Kewu Pick Up JazzWeek Nominations

June 1, 2010

JazzWeek, the the definitive national jazz radio airplay charting organization, has released their nominees for their 2010 JazzWeek Awards and a number of Northwest organizations are represented. For the third year in a row Origin Records was nominated for Record Label of the Year along with Concord Records, HighNote/Savant, Mack Avenue, Posi-Tone and Resonance Records. Saxophonist ...

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News: Performance / Tour

A Big Weekend of Music

May 29, 2010

Folklife Festival is this weekend. In addition there is a lot of great jazz music which will hopefully keep the rain away. Ron Carter's Golden Striker Trio featuring Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller is at Jazz Alley all weekend. Thomas Marriott will be in residency at The New Orleans performing tonight with ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Catching up with Chad McCullough

May 28, 2010

Trumpter Chad McCullough has had a busy 2010 and things haven't been letting up. After a January spent performing in Europe under his own name, touring and recording earlier this year with Andrew Olivers Kora Band, McCullough is currently on an 14 city tour across Canada and the western U.S. with the international cooperative group Tunnel ...

News: Event

Free Touring Seminar by Jason Parker

May 25, 2010

Jason Parker will be giving a FREE touring seminar on Ustream on Wednesday, June 2nd at 6:00pm Pacific Time! Jason Parker just returned from a two-week West Coast tour with his band, The Jason Parker Quartet. The tour was a huge success on all fronts, and Parker learned a ton acting as booking agent, PR firm, ...

192

News: Education

Ron Carter Clinic - May 28

May 24, 2010

Bassist Ron Carter, who is playing with his Golden Striker Trio (guitarist Russell Malone and pianist Mulgrew Miller) at Jazz Alley May 27-30, is going to hold an informal clinic and performance at the University of Washington Friday, May 28, from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Brechemin Auditorium. The clinic is free and open to the ...

145

News: Interview

Catching up with Greta Matassa

May 23, 2010

So far this year, Greta Matassa has sung with the Spokane Jazz Orchestra in the Bing Crosby Theater, performed in the Muckleshoot Casino and the Edmonds Center for the Arts, packed the house at the Ballard Jazz Festival, and hosted a weekly gig at Tulas. In July, she will sing the national anthem before Seattles Fourth ...

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News: Event

Art Blakey Tribute at the New Orleans - Sunday, May 30

May 19, 2010

The New Orleans Creole Restaurant will play host to a living retrospective of the music of Art Blakey and his famed band The Jazz Messengers. The all-star band of local heavyweights features brothers Thomas & David Marriott on trumpet and trombone, Matt Jorgensen on drums, pianist Bill Anschell and bassist Phil Sparks. Beginning at 8:00 pm, ...

168

News: Award / Grant

I/O Jazz Awards

May 15, 2010

The nominees for the I/O Jazz Awards have been posted for voting on the Lucid website. Make sure and go online and vote. The I/O Jazz Awards will be held Monday, May 31 at Benaroya Halls S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium. Outstanding Vocalist: Alisha Roney, Greta Matassa, Emily McIntosh, Flora McGill, Bridgid Roney Outstanding Instrumentalist: Eric ...