Sunday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3:00pm: Easy Street Jazz Band
8:00pm: Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Sunday Night Salsa: Rumbeggae

TUTTA BELLA WALLINGFORD: Casey McGill’s Blue 4 Trio

SERAFINA:
11am – 1:30pm: Jazz Brunch with the Conlin Roser Duo
6:30 – 9:00pm: Ann Reynolds / Tobi Stone Duo

La SPIGA: Gail Pettis Trio

BUMBERSHOOT: today and Monday. For more information, visit www.bumbershoot.org.

ANACORTES JAZZ FESTIVAL: today and Monday.
For more info, visit http://www.anacortes.org/jazz-08.cfm
11:30 – Pocket Change
1:00 – Clarenence Acox
2:30 – Jeanie Bryson
4:30 – Dr. Lonnie Smith
8:00- Anacortes Jazz Walk w/ Joe Doria, Fidalgo Swing, Bassic Sax

Saturday Jazz

Start early and get to at least one thing on this long list today!

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

BAKE’S PLACE: Crossing Borders featuring Jennifer Scott and Kristen Strom

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Red Eye Flight

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Isabella du Graf Quartet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Eric Apoe and Baby Gramps
9pm – Shauna Wu (vocals) and Randy Halberstadt (piano)
11pm – Gryphon, with Brian Murray on (vox/rhythm guitar), Ben “Mudslide” Davis (lead guitar), Jake Melius (bass) and Pax Allen on (drums)

SERAFINA: Jose Gonzales Trio

GRAZIE: Greta Matassa

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet w/ Fred Radke

ANACORTES JAZZ FESTIVAL: today, Sunday and Monday.
For more info, visit http://www.anacortes.org/jazz-08.cfm
11:30 – Trish Hatley
1:00 – Doug Wamble and Bill Frisell
2:30 – SRJO
4:30 – Kevin Mahogany
6:00 – The Pony Boy All-Star Mini Big Band
9:00- Anacortes Jazz Walk w/ Dina Blade, Tom Marriott, Dan Heck, Ryan Burns, Lee Pence, Frankly Moanin’, Cambalache

Oh, and there’s that other big music festival this weekend. What was the name of that again? Right. Bumbershoot (www.bumbershoot.org)

Friday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Rebecca Richardson Quintet w/ Dan Heck

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

BAKE’S PLACE: Crossing Borders featuring Jennifer Scott and Kristen Strom

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM:
5:30pm: Isabella DuGraf/Josh Rawlings Duo
9:00pm: The Caffeine Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Sue Nixon and the Leo Raymundo Trio
9pm – Caryn Kupferman and Brian Butler
11pm – Tim Lerch – Jazz/Blues guitarist/vocalist, with Patrick McDanel (bass) and Frank Heye (drums)

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks / Thomas Marriott / Matt Jorgensen

SERAFINA: Kelly Ash Trio

GRAZIE: Scott Lindenmuth

OWL ‘N THISTLE: The Joe Doria Trio

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet w/ Fred Radke

Dan Heck CD Release Party Tonight

Guitarist Dan Heck, who led a number of jazz groups and was instrumental in creating a number of recurring jazz gigs around Seattle throughout the 1990s, is back in Seattle this week and has a CD release party tonight at Tula’s

Heck’s new CD on Origin Records is entitled, “Compositionality.” You can preview the CD and order it online by clicking here.

Thur, Aug 28 – Dan Heck “Compositionality” CD Release Party
Tula’s Jazz Club, 2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, 8:00pm
call 206-443-4221 for reservations

Dan will also be performing later this week at:

Fri, Aug 29 – Rebecca Richardson/Dan Heck group featuring Thomas Marriott, Geoff Harper and Byron Vannoy
Tula’s Jazz Club, 2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, 8:00pm
call 206-443-4221 for reservations

Sat, Aug 30 – with Thomas Marriott at the Anacortes Jazz Festival

Jazz in the Second Century concludes tonight

BYRON VANNOY’S MERIDIAN | PONTIUS PILOTS

Thursday, Aug 28, 7:30pm
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N

After several years of steady and impressive growth as a player and leader, Byron Vannoy has developed a quintet sound that exemplifies impressively his sense of one direction jazz is taking in this century. He says: “I believe this is music that could be representative of the 21st century because we are not ignoring any influence. If I heard something, I wrote it and developed it without considering the origin or the style. I chose players who are very versatile and have played a wide variety of music. It is an organic fusion music that is honest and unpretentious, and at the core hopefully retains a sense of progressiveness and tradition.”

Vannoy is a busy drummer, working with such projects as the Hans Teuber Trio, Ziggurat Quartet, the Joe Doria Trio, Julian Priester’s Cue, and Tom Varner’s Tentet. With his own Meridian, he issued an album of original music last month. Rooted in jazz and fueled by rock and popular music, it features both improvisation and composed sections. His writing embraces odd meters whose harmonic changes and vamps offer springboards for free playing.

He has ideal partners for that. All are highly seasoned players with experience ranging through the full spectrum of jazz styles. For example, saxophonist Eric Barber, who integrates elements of jazz, Balkan, and Indian music into a personal vocabulary of extended saxophone techniques, has worked with many figures of national repute, and leads the impressive Ziggurat quartet jointly with pianist Bill Anschell.

Pontius Pilots is an electro-acoustic project that combines live piano and keyboards with pre-recorded samples. A collaboration between pianist and composer Victor Noriega and producer-musician Robert Nelson (e.R.DoN), the duo marries an array of real-instrument samples and synthesized sounds in combination with the acoustic piano to create, as Daniel Mitha wrote in the Journal of Popular Noise, “improv jazz forms imbued with inscrutable MPC-triggered samples.”

Seattle Times: Yes, there’s jazz at Bumbershoot — and even a jazz legend

From Hugo Kugiya’s story in The Seattle Times:

The outdoor stage upon which tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman and his group will play Sunday at the Bumbershoot music and arts festival is among the more intimate at the event, a cozy nook with room for about 800, surrounded by exhibit rooms, sheltered from the rock-thirsty crowds the event is known for.

One of the oldest and most revered performers at the festival, the semiretired Caliman, 76, is among a relative handful of acts that comprise jazz at Bumbershoot this year. Most, if not all, of them (depending on your definition of jazz) will perform Sunday on the Wells Fargo Stage in the Northwest Court, the traditional venue for jazz at Bumbershoot.

While jazz is not the main reason that thousands mob the Seattle Center every Labor Day weekend, Caliman and musicians like him are what make Bumbershoot the unique event that it is, a true mix of forms, genres and interpretations.

Opportunities to hear Caliman play live are precious and becoming more so in the autumn of his career. His local shows, like those at Tula’s, typically sell out. He is about as old as the art form itself, coming of age in the era of big bands, when jazz music was the popular music of its time.

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Los Angeles, he studied with Dexter Gordon (Caliman’s nickname was “Little Dex”), and played with Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Gerald Wilson, Joe Henderson, Nancy Wilson and Earl Hines, with whom he last played as a touring musician. He spent his 50s and 60s teaching at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts before retiring in 2000.

For the first time in decades, he said, “I could devote time to my own music.”

Earlier this year, he released his first album in more than 30 years, “Gratitude,” the fruit of what he called his “second career,” playing with musicians a generation younger. Some of the songs on the album, “Kickin’ on the Inside” and “Comencio,” he also recorded when he was a young musician.
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Thursday Jazz

Earshot Presents, Jazz In The Second Century: Byron Vannoy’s Meridian; Pontius Pilots

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Dan Heck CD Release Party with Thomas Marriott

THAIKU: Jon Alberts / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Fathia Atallah, with Hans Brehmer (piano), Joe Casalini (bass) and Steve Korn (drums)
9pm – Groovananda, with Wynne Paris – NYC based world/jazz with new fusion sound that includes world beat, jazz, yoga/Indian music and folk

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy & Friends

LO-FI: The Teaching

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio

Wednesday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Motel 5

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: WSU Cougar Jazz Night

NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Malibu Manouche, surf jazz with Neil Andersson (guitar), Peter Pendras (guitar) and Chuck Deardorf (bass)
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

Art Foxall

via Jim Wilke:

I just received word that Art Foxall died last night. He was a much-loved member of this jazz community and beyond. He had been in a hospice and I understand died of renal failure. He played and appeared with Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge, Little Richard, Ivory Joe Hunter. His band included Jaki Byard, Joe Gordon, H.B. Barnum, Alan Dawson, Gigi Gryce, Sam Rivers and many more. He played in Europe frequently and headlined the Heineken Jazz Festival in Holland for three years.

There was recently a very loving tribute at the hospice from his musician friends . You can see a slideshow at http://www.paradoxstudios.net/art_foxall.htm

For more information please see http://cdbaby.com/cd/artfoxall

Tuesday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Little Big Band

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jump Ensemble, Ballard’s own(!), with Gregg Robinson (piano), Mark Filler (drums) and Marty Haswgawa (bass).

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Dan Heck Trio w/ Joe Doria & Dvonne Lewis

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

DULCE’S LATIN BISTRO: Eric Verlinde
1430 34th Ave, 206-322-5453, 7pm

New jazz series in Bremerton

Bremerton saxophonist Mark Lewis has started a new series in Bremerton every Thursday night at El Coral mexican restaurant. Each week will feature Mark Lewis with a special guest.

Guest Artist Schedule:
Aug. 28: Steve Nowak, guitar
Sept. 4: Chuck Easton, guitar
Sept. 11: Lucy Mitchell, piano
Sept. 18: Mark Bullis, guitar/bass
Sept. 25: Overton Berry, piano

El Coral Mexican Restaurant
536 4th Street, Bremerton
(360) 479-2239

Thursday nights, 6:30 to 9:30 pm

The music is on the main floor in the restaurant – all ages are welcome and there is no cover.

Monday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: JAZZ JAM with the Darin Clendenin Trio

SEATTLE DRUM SCHOOL: Last Mondays with Geoff Harper / Dan Heck / Reade Whitwell
12510 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 8:00pm

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

LA SPIGA: Greta Matassa Trio

Are we missing anything? Post a comment and we’ll add it to the schedule.

Sunday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Count Basie Orchestra

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Sunday Night Salsa: Salsariba

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3:00pm: Fairly Honest Jazz Band
8:00pm: Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra

TUTTA BELLA WALLINGFORD: Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators

SERAFINA:
11am – 1:30pm: Jazz Brunch with the Conlin Roser Duo
6:30 – 9:00pm: Jerry Frank solo piano

La SPIGA: Eli Rosenblatt solo guitar 

Gallery 1412: Monsters of the Accordian, master class, 12:30pm

Saturday Jazz

It’s like the Jazz Olympics today.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Kelley Johnson Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Count Basie Orchestra

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: The Boogilistics

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Rupert Wates and Kate Graves
9pm – Vocal Jazz and Latin music from Finn Hill Jazz, featuring Kay Bailey, with Rob Silver (guitar), Peter Rockas (tenor sax), Jamael Nance (drums) and Will Stump (bass)
11pm – Jim Knodle and The Distract Band (plus special guests), with Jim Knodle (trumpet), Mike Dodge (tenor sax), Mike Owcharuk (piano), Nate Omdal (bass) and Don Berman (drums) [

SERAFINA: Voodoo Trio

GRAZIE: Michael Powers Group

BAKE’S PLACE: Amandah Jantzen Quartet

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova w/Mike West

VERRAZANOS: Katy Bourne w/Randy Halberstadt and Doug Miller
28835 Pacific Highway S., Federal Way, 253-946-4122

GALLERY 1412: Unused Lexical Variable

SOUNDS OUTSIDE AT CAL ANDERSON PARK
1:00 Floss featuring Zachary Watkins
2:30 Reptet
4:00 Aram Shelton + Special O.P.S.
5:30 Ahamefule J. Oluo and the New seattle Brass Ensemble
7:00 The Wally Shoup Free Three

Cal Anderson Park
1635 11th Ave (bet. East Denny Way and East Pine St.)
http://www.soundsoutside.com/

New York Times Review: Aaron Parks

AARON PARKS
“Invisible Cinema”
(Blue Note)

{read review at The New York Times}

The 24-year-old pianist Aaron Parks has been making his own records for eight years. During that time he has played in bands led by Kurt Rosenwinkel and Terence Blanchard — with Mr. Blanchard on film-soundtrack projects, among other things. But he’s only now getting a wide hearing with “Invisible Cinema,” his first album for Blue Note.

You can guess at the lessons he has drawn from his experience. Here he’s forming expansive, semi-cinematic ideas, songs that stay engaged in an all-consuming mood for long stretches, whether swamp-bluesy or Middle Eastern or hymnlike. But he merges this with the latest jazz-bandstand language of long, stretchy soloistic lines, clanky-sinuous pop backbeats and floating slow-over-fast rhythms. Like a lot of young jazz musicians in the last 10 years, he sounds torn between Keith Jarrett and Radiohead, and when he tilts away from jazz as we know it, it’s toward big-gesture pop: a sweeping, earnest and melancholic music.

A lot of the record is arranged for piano, bass (Matt Penman) and drums (Eric Harland), with electronic keyboards added here and there. But three songs feature the guitarist Mike Moreno improvising with a big, echoey, almost heroic sound, and this throws the album off a bit, pulling the focus from Mr. Parks. It also widens the frame, and Mr. Parks, as a bandleader, still needs it narrower. He’s a gifted player, and he has compositional ambitions that could lead him to mix up with many kinds of music. But this record doesn’t make clear what kind of bandleader he is.

– BEN RATLIFF

Friday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Count Basie Orchestra

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Darin Clendenin Quartet with Jeff Busch

TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: Dee Daniels

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM:
5:30pm: Tor Dietrichson/Leif Totusek Duo
9:00pm: Tor Dietrichson Blues Machine

BAKE’S PLACE: Kristi King Quartet

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio (5:30pm)

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Andrew Oliver Sextet, with Andrew Oliver (piano), Dan Duval (guitar), Mary Sue Tobin (soprano and alto saxes), Willie Matheis (tenor sax), Eric Gruber (bass) and Kevin Van Geem (drums)
9pm – Katy Bourne Quartet, with Bill Anchell (piano), Chuck Kistler (bass) and Steve Korn (drums)

SERAFINA: Fred Hoadley Trio

GRAZIE: Michael Powers Group

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet w/ Mike West

Jazz and the Second Century continues tonight

August 21 – Goat

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N
$10 general admission

Greg Sinibaldi – tenor sax, EWI (electronic wind instrument), electronics
Zach Stewart – guitar, electronics
Denali Williams – drums

Using loops and electronic gadgetry combined with woodwinds, electric guitar, and drum set, Goat creates music with a sharp harmonic and rhythmic sensibility that embraces spontaneity while developing abstract motifs.

The trio evolves from earlier Sinibaldi projects like Frieze of Life, Cipher, the Greg Sinibaldi Trio and Band, and Vena Cava. Here he extends his merging of free jazz, new music, and striking instrumental timbres. Most unusual, and highly effective, are the strains of the EWI, or electric wind instrument, a programmable wind-driven synthesizer. Through composed pieces and extensive improvisation, he and his band mates arrive at an always-fresh and fascinating sound.

Sinibaldi, who came up in the Northwest high school bands, attended the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with microtonal composer and sax improviser Joseph Maneri as well as horn greats George Garzone and Jimmy Giuffre. Since returning to Seattle, he has worked with his several small combos and has been writing large works combining composition and improvisation. He is working on scores to accompany the silent films of Wladislaw Starewicz.

On guitar and electronics is Zach Stewart, who sifts heavy rock, blues/roots music, country, and jazz to arrive at a floating, soaring sound that ideally complements Sinibaldi’s concept. Under the pseudonym Skiff Feldspar, Stewart tours North America with the Northwest jam/funk band, Flowmotion.

Drummer Denali Williams’s experience ranges from rock ’n’ roll to orchestral music, working in bands like the Staxx Brothers, Loop 2.4.3, and the Tacoma Symphony.

Sinibaldi says that he seeks to create music that is “adventurous but cohesive.” “Jazz is an ever-evolving art form,” he says. “This evolution is malleable, exemplified by the experimental integration of various forms and traditions from around the world.”

Thursday Jazz

EARSHOT’S JAZZ IN THE SECOND CENTURY: Goat

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Reptet w/ Misery Love Co.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Sonando

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Messick Franklin Group, with Steve Messick (bass), David Franklin (piano) and Ken French (drums)
9pm – Kevin McCarthy Quartet, with Al Lindbom (guitar), Paul Gillespie (tenor sax), Larry Bergman (drums) and Kevin McCarthy (bass)

THAIKU: Jon Albert’s / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio

JAZZ ALLEY: Count Basie Orchestra

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

13 COINS: HB Radke & Jet City Swingers

Wednesday Jazz

NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox
from Earshot Jazz: Drummer Clarence Acox has stepped up to fill the very large shoes of Seattle legend Floyd Standifer by holding down the Wednesday night slot at the venerable New Orleans Restaurant in Pioneer Square. Acox leads the Legends Quartet (formerly the Floyd Standifer Quartet) featuring a handful of well-known area musicians. To inform any visiting tourists who may not already be aware, Acox is a locally infamous ambassador of the Seattle jazz scene with impeccable jazz credentials, ranging from his thirty-five year tenure as the director of the award-winning Garfield High jazz program and his leadership of the Seattle University jazz ensemble to his founding of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. The Wednesday night tradition of straight-ahead jazz at the New Orleans (114 1st Ave S) lives on. Music begins at 8 pm and is free.

JAZZ ALLEY: Harry Shearer and the High Value Detainees

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Katie King Vocal Showcase

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
6:30pm – Household Items, with Brian Friedland and Angela Vincente
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session hosted by Julie Cascioppo, with Nelda Swiggett (piano) and Steve Kim (bass)

TUTTA BELLA: Djangomatics

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Ari Joshua Zucker and Friends

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

Wednesday Jazz

Make sure and vote today!

JAZZ ALLEY: Harry Shearer and the High Value Detainees

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Roadside Attraction

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jon Sheckler Group, with Jon Sheckler (drums), Erika Price (piano), Nathan Parker (bass), and Eli Miesner (guitar)
9pm – Victor Noriega Trio

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom