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Seattle Times: Portland: Top Jazz Festival with New Life
from The Seattle Times: Reborn for its sixth season as the Alaska Airline/Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival, the 10-day event opens Friday and runs through Feb. 22, presenting many of jazz’s most-celebrated artists within a square mile of downtown. The program, dubbed Somethin’ Else this year, celebrates the 70th birthday of Blue Note, the definitive modern ...
Seattle Times: New Orleans Sound Takes a Trip to Seattle, Courtesy of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
from The Seattle Times: Everyone should experience Mardi Gras at least once, but if a trip to New Orleans isn’t in the cards, rest assured that the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is bringing a potent jolt of Crescent City soul to Seattle. A New Orleans institution for more than 30 years, the Dirty Dozen revolutionized the ...
Earshot Golden Ear Awards
THE EARSHOT JAZZ GOLDEN EAR AWARDS with HADLEY CALIMAN QUINTET, DAS VIBENBASS, and EMCEE JIM WILKE THE TRIPLE DOOR 216 Union Street, Seattle 7PM $15 general / $13 earshot members / $7 working musicians phone: 206-838-4333 Join us for Seattle’s premier Jazz Awards featuring a performance by the ...
Seattle Times: Mark Sherman Brings His Vibraphone (and Quartet) to Tula's
from The Seattle Times: Vibraphone players are something of a rare breed in jazz music, sometimes a happy accident, Mark Sherman being one of them. Serendipity is known to take its time, so perhaps it is no surprise that Sherman, 51, was well into middle age before he really hit his stride. Named the “Rising Star” ...
The Jazz Hang: 2009 - The Year of Live Music
Well, here it is the New Year again. It seems I should have some inspiring personal missive or perhaps a bold, optimistic profundity to share. But the truth is people: I got nothing. Oh sure, I’m plenty excited for the January 20th inauguration. Even though the election was back in November, I still grapple to find ...
The Value of What We Do
Over the coming weeks we are going to run a series of posts relating to the value of live music, jazz, culture and the importance of what we as musicians do and how it effects others. This has been something that SJS has been thinking about doing for a while and we are not entirely sure ...
This Sunday on Jazz Northwest
International trombonist Jiggs Whigham leads an all-star bi-coastal jam session on Jazz Northwest on 88-5 KPLU on Sunday, February 1, 2009. Joining Jiggs are Gilbert Castellanos, Bruce Forman, Gary Versace, Chuck Deardorf and Matt Wilson, recorded at The Public House during last Summer’s Jazz Port Townsend. Pull up a chair and join us for a Sunday ...
Seattle Times: At Tula's, the Last Stand of the Jazz Open Jam
About six months ago, Mack Waldron had the contract in his hand. Sign it and the club he had owned for 15 years, Tula’s, would belong to someone else. All he had to do was sign his name. His lease was ending. His rent was going up. He was 67. His knees and his feet ached ...
Origin Records at Midem
John Bishop and Matt Jorgensen just finished attending the 2009 MIDEM show in Cannes, France. The annual convention consists of over 9,000 music industry professionals gathering for meetings, showcases and lectures. Origin Records spent three days meeting with foreign distributors from Asia and Europe. “For our first trip to MIDEM I think things couldn’t have gone ...
Seattle Times: New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Captures Heartbeat of the City
from The Seattle Times: The stage in Benaroya Hall was an ocean, vast and endless, the 16-piece New Orleans Jazz Orchestra an island. To encourage intimacy and interaction among the musicians, the men faced one another in a shape that resembled a horseshoe, the way a choir might arrange itself. Early in Thursday night’s performance, the ...
