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DC Jazz Festival: June 1-13, 2011

by Franz A. Matzner
June 30, 2011

DC Jazz Festival 2011 Washington, DCJune 1-13, 2011 The DC Jazz Festival's seventh year was defined in equal measure by the event's now distinct combination of local acts and headline guests, spread throughout the city's stages, museums, and local clubs. Unlike many festivals, the DC Jazz Festival has maintained an exclusive ...

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

Pilc-Moutin-Hoenig Trio: Washington, D.C. May 17, 2011

by Franz A. Matzner
June 8, 2011

Jean-Michel Pilc / Ari Hoenig / François Moutin Blues Alley Washington, D.C. May 17, 20011Tumultuous, unpredictable, vibrant with variegated rhythms and tempos, shimmering with torrents of sound and spiraling tendrils of color, the Pilc-Moutin-Hoenig Trio's recent performance at Blues Alley proceeded less like an unveiling and more like the ...

Vijay Iyer Trio: Washington, DC, April 30, 2011

by Franz A. Matzner
May 18, 2011

Vijay Iyer TrioSixth & I Historic SynagogueWashington, DCApril 30, 2011 Sponsored by the Washington Performing Arts Society, pianist Vijay Iyer's concert placed his innovative trio in the sumptuous setting of Washington, DC's Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. The domed ceilings and intricate décor provided an appropriate backdrop ...

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 ...

Ben Williams: Washington, DC, April 15, 2011

by Franz A. Matzner
May 2, 2011

Ben Williams Quintet Kennedy Center Jazz Club Washington, DC April 15, 2011 Winner of the 2009 Thelonious Monk Competition for bass (the competition focuses on a different instrument each year), innovative young artist Ben Williams brought his quintet to the Kennedy Center Jazz Club for an evening of entertaining, inventive music ...

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. ...