Results for "Seattle"

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News: Education

Seattle Times: Hot Java Cool Jazz: A Showcase of High-School Bands at the Paramount

March 28, 2009

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 ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Marc Seales / Rochelle House at Jazz Alley

March 27, 2009

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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News: Performance / Tour

Seattle Times: Tom Varner Brings Jazz French Horn to a Sacred Space

March 23, 2009

From The Seattle Times: At its best, jazz is hand-tailored music that can be shaped to fit just about any setting. For French-horn master Tom Varner, a concert in the intimate, resonant Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center offers an opportunity to design a program calibrated for a sacred space. Saturday’s performance, part of ...

News: Performance / Tour

Paul Kikuchi Solo at Gallery 1412

March 19, 2009

FRIDAY, MARCH 20 - GALLERY 1412 1412 18th Ave, Seattle gallery1412.org Percussionist Paul Kikuchi will perform solo compositions and improvisations centered around the drum set, and his new series of original instruments entitled topographs, this Friday at Gallery 1412 in Seattle. Paul Kikuchi is a percussionist, composer, and instrument maker from Indianola, ...

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News: Music Industry

Seattle Times: For Branford Marsalis, It's All About the Group

March 18, 2009

from The Seattle Times: Branford Marsalis is one of the biggest names in jazz, a midcareer master who’s maintained an enviable level of visibility for nearly three decades. But the sardonic tenor and soprano saxophonist isn’t much impressed by personal accolades. As a musician, he’s devoted to a group concept that puts a premium on free-flowing ...

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News: Music Industry

Gene Stout: It Has Been a Long and Winding -- And Totally Wonderful -- Road

March 18, 2009

From the final article by Gene Stout, Seattle PI Music Critic: My time on the music beat — from 1983 to the present — has been a wild ride, with hundreds of interviews with some pretty famous people and hundreds of concert reviews. It has been an honor to write about music in a city that ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Branford Marsalis at Jazz Alley: March 19-22

March 18, 2009

ROOM IN ALL SHOWS! Listen to KPLU 88.5 FM Thursday, March 19th at noon, for a live duet performance and interview! The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents three-time Grammy winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis for four nights touring in support of his new release Metamorphosen. Band members joining Mr. Marsalis are Joey Calderazzo (piano), ...

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News: Recording

JazzLoft.com - Weekly New Arrivals

March 8, 2009

Steve Coleman Resistance Is Futile (Label Bleu) Price: $34.95 Sophia Domancich Live at the Sunside (Marge) Price: $16.95 Jurgen Friedrich Pollock (Pirouet) Price: $15.95 Oregon Moon and Mind (Original Jazz Classics) Price: ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Seattle Times - A Triple-Threat Treasure: Pianist, Singer and Composer Toshiko Akiyoshi

March 7, 2009

As a Japanese woman and bandleader, Toshiko Akiyoshi was obliged to be a pioneer of one kind or another. In her day, women in jazz were singers and little more, and they certainly were not Japanese. From the culture she was born to and the one she adopted, she gathered proverbs that even today she finds ...

News: Performance / Tour

Axiom at Tula's This Thursday

March 5, 2009

Thursday, March 5 at Tula's - Axiom Quartet Alexey Nikolaev - tenor sax John Hansen - piano Jon Hamar - bass Phil Parisot - drums Tula's Restaurant and Nightclub 2214 2nd Ave Seattle, WA 98121 (206)443-4221 7:30 pm $8 cover ...