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Ron Blake's MUSIC T'REE Flourishes Across Genres

by Matt Merewitz
March 29, 2004

A radio host throws on one of Ron Blake's discs ' perhaps his latest effort for Detroit-based Mack Avenue Records, Lest We Forget. Chances are - you dig. But who was that? Many of you have seen or heard this saxophonist live or on record, but there is no name to go with a sound. Don't ...

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Origin Arts: The Tsunami from Seattle

by C. Michael Bailey
March 20, 2004

In general, the median quality of Jazz Music is several orders of magnitude greater than that of Popular Music. To this writer, this is best evidenced by the flood of music spilling out of my mailbox on a daily basis. Amazingly, the vast majority of music that I listen to is of a very high quality. ...

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Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra with guest Clark Terry

by Jason West
March 13, 2004

Beneroya Recital Hall, Seattle WA October 28, 2000 A veteran of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington orchestras, Clark Terry delivered five decades of musicianship and a timeless sense of humor to Seattle, entertaining a packed house of 500-plus fans who filled Beneroya Recital Hall. High notes mirrored sightgags as the venerable ...

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Pat Martino Trio at Jazz Alley

by Roy Strassman
March 13, 2004

Pat Martino Trio Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000Amidst good tidings, packed house and festive d'cor, replete with onstage Christmas tree, the Three Jazzmen journeyed to the West, Seattle's Jazz Alley, thereby annunciating the holy rebirth of jazz guitar-organ funk. The jazzmen in question are none other ...

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio in Seattle

by Christopher Jones
March 12, 2004

Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio in SeattleDimitriou’s Jazz Alley August 8th, 2000 I don’t have many pet peeves, but this is one of them: Why is it that so many jazz musicians, when performing live, neglect to say much of anything to the audience? Is this a phenomenon passed down from the bebop era, a ...

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Tula's: Seattle Jazz Club

by Jason West
March 12, 2004

On the east side of Second Avenue, between Blanchard and Bell St., there's something for everyone. For the rockers there's The Crocodile; for the mods there's The Lava Lounge; for margaritas there's Mama's Mexican Kitchen; an for the best local jazz six nights a week, there's Tula's.With blinds drawn and only a modest blue ...

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Roy Hargrove Quintet in Seattle

by Christopher Jones
March 8, 2004

If you like flashy solos and the 'head-solo-solo-solo-head' school of group jazz, you'll like the Roy Hargrove Quintet. If you're looking for something else in your jazz, you might need to look elsewhere. This is not a criticism of Hargrove's quintet, which is currently in the midst of a five-day run at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in ...

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Tim Armacost: Rhythm and Transformation

by Matt Merewitz
February 26, 2004

Tim Armacost talks about 'choices [he] made' that determined the path he has taken as a musician. His direction was not always self-evident and its constant evolution has taken him from the US to Japan, to the Netherlands, to India, and back to the US, where has been for the past decade. In his ...

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Bohemian Revolution: Ari Hoenig at Twins Jazz

by Franz A. Matzner
February 18, 2004

I ordered a drink from Twins Jazz’s master of ceremonies, Joseph Beasley, whose ever-pleasant attitude and energy single-handedly warmed the club’s otherwise somewhat cool atmosphere and took a look around the room. It was still early. On stage, surrounding the bass, drums, and propped open music cases lay a jumble of loose sheet music, lead wires ...

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The Standards Trio In Seattle

by Jason West
December 6, 2003

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA Friday, November 14, 2003 Presented as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival Walking into Benaroya Hall at 7:55pm it was apparent by the hundreds of people in line at will call that the scheduled 8pm start would have to be ...