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Seattle Occultural Music Festival
The 2nd Annual Seattle Occultural Music Festival is a three-weekend celebration of new & experimental music in the Pacific Northwest of psychic, ecological or otherwise deeply resonant importance. This diverse program incorporates performers & composers spanning the regions genres & generations, mixing established artists, new talent, and important work & influence not from the immediate Seattle ...
Ballard Jazz Festival Starts Next Week
Advance tickets (at discount prices) are still available for all events at The Ballard Jazz Festival which starts next Wednesday, April 22. Wednesday, April 22 - Brotherhood of the Drum performances by groups led by Matt Jorgensen, Alan Jones, Tarik Abouzied and Mark Ivester. Thursday, April 23 - Guitar Summit performances by ...
This Week on Jazz Northwest
On the next Jazz Northwest from 88-5 KPLU, saxophonist and composer Mark Taylor leads his quartet in an Art of Jazz concert and CD release party at the Seattle Art Museum. Mark Taylor was recently named Northwest Instrumentalist of the Year at the annual Earshot Awards, and he’s been featured in numerous Seattle groups including the ...
Blue Note 7 Celebrates 70 at the Kennedy Center
by Franz A. Matzner
Blue Note 7 Kennedy CenterApril 5, 2009Washington, D.C. Featuring a super group compiled from its illustrious roster, last Sunday night's concert at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the Blue Note recording label with a series of musical snapshots of some of its ...
Seattle Times - Saxophonist Mark Taylor: Passionate Lyricism
From The Seattle Times: By taking his time and letting his music develop at its own pace, Mark Taylor has become one of the essential players on the Seattle jazz scene. While steadily pursuing his own musical vision, the alto saxophonist has toiled fruitfully as a sideman, contributing to more than half a dozen excellent ensembles. ...
Seattle Times: Popular Jazz Singer Kendra Shank Takes the Long Way Home
Note: Kendra Shank performs at Jazz Alley Tues-Wed, April 7-8, in support of her new CD, Mosaic. Click here to view the Jazz Alley website. Of the many accomplished singers to come out of Seattle lately and long ago, few have taken as circuitous a path as Kendra Shank, the former folk singer and French chanteuse ...
Seattle Times: Jazz Artists from Europe, U.S. Get Together in Spring Series
Spurred largely by the controversial 2005 book, Is Jazz Dead? by British writer Stuart Nicholson, the argument suggests that jazz is being advanced to a greater degree outside America — the country of its birth. However you come down on that issue, most everyone can agree that audiences are created by the debate itself. Some of ...
Steve Coleman: A Master of Creative Musical Improvisation
In his classic 1973 book “The Anxiety of Influence," the prodigious literary critic Harold Bloom argues that great poets define themselves through an Oedipal struggle in which they misread the work of their predecessors to find their own distinctive voice. Maybe the collaborative nature of jazz serves as an antidote to anxiety, because the most creative ...
Review: Branford Marsalis at Jazz Alley
Perhaps the moment that said the most about saxophonist Branford Marsalis, whose quartet began a four-night run Thursday at Jazz Alley, was the moment he left the stage, disappeared and left the spotlight to his young drummer Justin Faulkner, who delivered an inspired, disciplined solo over the Thelonius Monk tune “Rhythm-a-Ning." Even among the unsuspecting in ...
Seattle Times: Jennifer Scott Forges Jazz Art from Pop Classics
from The Seattle Times: Jennifer Scott is a musical alchemist, a singer with a gift for transforming songs often dismissed as pop dross into jazz gold. Not that she makes a particular point out of dredging up Top 40 hits, but the Vancouver, B.C.-based Scott has set herself apart from the jazz-vocalist pack with her mesmerizing ...
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