TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Tumbao w/ Thomas Marriott
JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Kashiwa Band
NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Lucas Cates Duo
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session, hosted by Dina Blade with the Dan Sales Trio
WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce
THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra
JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Kashiwa Band
NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Miss Rose and her Rhythm Percolators
9pm – Kion Quartet, with Tyler Kion (alto & soprano sax), Rich Pellegrin (piano/keyboards), Jessica Kion (bass guitar) and Daniel O’Neil (drums/auxillary)
DEXTER AND HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio
MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita
MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
DULCES LATIN BISTRO: Eric Verlinde
Raina Wagner’s blog over at the SeattleTimes.com has a quick mention of jazz at Bumbershoot …
Wandering from the (loud, indie-rock) Broad Street Stage past the (loud, indie-rock) Fisher Green Stage, it was a like stumbling onto a Bumbershoot Oasis when I found myself in the midst of the Northwest Jazz Showcase, Sunday afternoon in the NW Court. Seattle jazzman Matt Jorgensen was drumming with his decade-old group, Matt Jorgensen + 451. Mind you, this was no easy listening. Jorgensen, one of the forces behind Origin Records, the Ballard Jazz Festival, and seattlejazzscene.com, is all about new sounds, atypcial rhythms and blends, and making his audience sit up and pay attention.
He accomplished all of the above in a set that ended with a guest appearance: terrific Seattle trumpeter Thomas Marriott joined Matt Jorgensen + 451 on stage. Marriott traded harmonic lines with sax player Mark Taylor as the band played a song that made me listen with two (or more) brains at once.
My brains took a break to snap a photo, above. It’s Marriott with Jorgensen on drums in the background.
Matt Jorgensen + 451 has a new album to plug. Read more about “Another Morning” on his website.
The Portland Jazz Festival has issued a press release announcing the end of the Portland Jazz Festival.
Portland Jazz Festival has ceased operations ending a five-year span of presenting a world class jazz festival each February in Portland. Since opening February 2004 with Wayne Shorter, Portland Jazz Festival has presented such artists as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Chick Corea & Gary Burton, Dianne Reeves, McCoy Tyner & Ravi Coltrane, and many others. Over the past few years, an array of international artists, including Trygve Seim and Tord Gustavsen (Norway), Tomasz Stanko (Poland), Nik Bartsch’s Ronin (Switzerland), Amina Figarova (Holland), and Diego Ramirez (Mexico), have been prominently spotlighted.
Operations and planning for the 2009 February event could not continue because of a decline in funding and sponsorship support. New sponsors could not be found and other short falls accumulated making it impossible to survive on ticket sale projections and related forms of earned revenue. Even with the anticipation of the 09 festival dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records, recent attempts to develop support throughout the community were not successful.
Click here to read the press release from PDX Jazz.
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: JAZZ JAM with the Darin Clendenin Trio
THE TRIPLE DOOR: Leif Totusek and the Candelas
NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet
TOST: Michael Shrieve Spellbinder
The Pony Boy Jazz Picnic is the biggest game in town today…sure hope you don’t need a last minute sub for those other gigs!
PONY BOY RECORDS 5TH ANNUAL JAZZ PICNIC: Noon-5pm
Sandpoint Magnuson Park Amphitheatre, 7400 Sandpoint Way, NE, Seattle. For more information visit the Pony Boy Records website. (See previous post.)
JAZZ ALLEY: Chuck Mangione
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3:00pm: Reggie Goings / Hadley Caliman
8:00pm: Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra
TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: Afrissippi
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: Makini and the Killer Bees
KWJZ JAZZ BRUNCH CRUISE: Susan Pascal Quartet, 12-2pm.
More info: 206-623-1445
Looks like the weather is going to be great tomorrow … don’t miss the Pony Boy Records Jazz Picnic!
Pony Boy Records Fifth Annual
JAZZ PICNIC
Sunday, September 7, noon to 5:00
Sandpoint Magnuson Park Garden Amphitheatre
7400 Sandpoint Way NE, Seattle, WA
FREE (donations accepted at the the tip jar)
Summer is making a reprise in Seattle, so pack a picnic and enjoy an afternoon of live jazz in the park. Enter at Sandpoint Way & 74th. Over 50 musicians: EMERALD CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, GREG WILLIAMSON DBL SAX, VICTOR NORIEGA TRIO+2, PETE PETERSEN PORKPIE, VERN SIELERT DEKTET, JAY THOMAS SEXTET, KAREN SHIVERS, AL KEITH GROUP, TROMBONASAURUS WRECKS, ZYDECO ETOUFEE, and many many more… T-shirts, CDs, prizes, hot dogs and jazz…
For more information visit the Pony Boy Records website.
SATURDAY, SEPT 6
THE TRIPLE DOOR
216 Union Street
206-838-4333
7:30pm
JazzTimes calls Jacqui Naylor “an incomparable triple threat, serving up classic covers with the best of them, delivering top-drawer originals and inspiring with the musical marriage she calls acoustic smashing.” As the New York Times puts it “the words and melody are Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’ but the groove is Allman’s ‘Whipping Post.’ Naylor has the chops and sensitivity to pull it off.” She and her band tour nationally and internationally with recent debuts at Ronnie Scotts, London and Blue Note, Milan and Tokyo.
The Wall Street Journal claims “The Color Five and Smashed for the Holidays, mark a turning point in Naylor’s career.” She will release her seventh recording, You Don’t Know JACQ, later this year.
Click here for more info
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3:00 – Andrienne Wilson Vocal Showcase
8:30 – Greta Matassa Quartet
JAZZ ALLEY: Chuck Mangione
BAKE’S PLACE: Jeanie Bryson Quartet
SORRENTO HOTEL: Katy Bourne w/ Hans Brehmer and Chuck Kistler
900 Madison St., Seattle, 206-622-6400
TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: Jacqui Naylor
TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Vunt Foom
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm and 9pm- Overton Berry Trio CD Release Party
SERAFINA: Leo Raymundo w/ Sue Nixon
GRAZIE: Blues Union
PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet w/ Stephanie Porter
From The Seattle Times:
Head to Bake’s Place this weekend, and you’ll find yourself feeling it three ways: in the food, the alcohol and in Jeanie Bryson’s voice.
In fact, Bake’s Place in Issaquah might just be the best place to slip into a jazz coma. It’s called a “place” because it’s a repurposed house where you can eat dinner, drink or just watch and hear jazz artists in a “living room” where ghosts of families past watched TV and played Scrabble.
And Jeanie Bryson is the aural equivalent of a giant throw pillow. The daughter of Dizzy Gillespie sings in a gauzy romance voice, mixing the sexy with the Latin with the understated; she pulls you into her lovely haze with taste enough not to needlessly flit and float. Her business is soft-focus, misty-eyed romance. And business is good.
The Jeanie Bryson Quartet plays as part of Bake’s Place’s Visiting Songbirds Series. See the full three-course menu at www.bakesplace.org.
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Katie King Quartet
JAZZ ALLEY: Chuck Mangione
TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: Cuchata and Nationbeat (world music)
TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Joe Doria Trio
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Dylan Heaney Group, with Dylan Heaney (sax), Andy Coe (guitar), Keith Judelman (bass) and Phil Parisot (drums)
9pm – Like Minds, jazz guitar duo with Greg Glassman and Ron Peters
HIROSHI’S: Gene Argel / Jay Thomas / Greg Williamson
LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks / Leif Todasek
SERAFINA: Jose Gonzales Trio
GRAZIE: Blues Union
PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet
Pony Boy Records Presents
JAZZ and SUSHI
Fridays, 7:30 – 10:00pm
no cover
Friday, September 5
Gene Argel-Jay Thomas, Special Reunion Show
Gene Argel – Hammond B3 Organ
Jay Thomas – sax and trumpet
Greg Williamson – drums
This will be a party! Yes, we’ll have a Hammond B3 organ at Hiroshi’s for Jazz & Sushi… Gene Argel is a native of the Pacific Northwest, and was a much loved fixture and “monster player” on the Seattle Jazz scene until his move to Hawaii in 1980. He dazzles his audiences with his jazz, blues, and Latin rhythms. Jay Thomas especially remembers his funky earthy inflections. Gene has played with a number of talented artists such as Gabe Balthazar, Joe Henderson, Henry Allen, Emil Richards, Branford Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Bill Evans and George Benson. Add to the mix some new friends with “funky drummer” Greg Williamson and an undisclosed guest horn… Might there be a recording in process?
Hiroshi’s Restaurant
2501 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA
reservations recommended
ph: (206)726-4966
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Vocal Workshop
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Sunship, with Brian Heaney (guitar), Michael Monhart (saxophone), David Revelli (drums), Andrew Luthringer (bass) and Stuart Dempster (trombone)
9pm – Tom Baker Quartet, with Tom Baker (guitar and fretless guitar), Greg Cambell (drums), Jesse Canterbury (clarinet) and Brian Cobb (bass)
JAZZ ALLEY: Holly Cole
TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Monarch Duo
NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet
ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy & Friends
THAIKU: Jon Alberts / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton
LO-FI: The Teaching
MARTIN’S OFF MADISON: Karin Kajita
MAY: Hans Teuber Trio
JAZZ ALLEY: Umalali: The Garifuna Women’s Project
TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Monarch Duo / Ramana Viera
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: The Teaching w/ Jeremy Jones, Josh Rawlings, Evan Flory-Barnes
NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox
GALLERY 1412: More Zero w/ Chris Stover, Jeff Norwood, Ben Thomas, Matt Jorgensen, Stuart McDonald
THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Beth Wulff (piano) and Jim Wulff (vocals/drums)
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session
WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce
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 Legacy Band (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. His experience includes a thirty-five-year tenure as the director of the award-winning Garfield High jazz program, leading the Seattle University jazz ensemble, and founding 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: Phoebe Snow
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band
NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: PGM Trio
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Chuck Ogmund Quintet, with Hans Brehmer (piano), Chris Symer (bass), Patty Padden (drums) and Tony Rondolone (sax).
MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
MARTIN’S OFF MADISON: Karin Kajita
Anything else? As always, send us a note and let us know!
Anacortes Jazz Festival:
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM : The Tiptons
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Kellylee Evans
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Pearl Django
Playing the breaks on the food court Stage: Mike Allen Trio
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: VOCAL JAM with Greta Matassa
NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet
TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder