Grammy Nominations Announced

and in the Jazz/Instrumental Music categories …

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

All Or Nothing At All
Randy Brecker, soloist
Track from: The Jazz Ballad Song Book (Randy Brecker With DR Big Band)
[Half Note]

You Are My Sunshine
Ron Carter, soloist
Track from: This Is Jazz (Donald Harrison, Ron Carter & Billy Cobham)
[Half Note]

500 Miles High
Chick Corea, soloist
Track from: Forever (Corea, Clarke & White)
[Concord Records]

Work
Fred Hersch, soloist
Track from: Alone At The Vanguard
[Palmetto Records]

Sonnymoon For Two
Sonny Rollins, soloist
Track from: Road Shows Vol. 2
[Doxy/Emarcy/Decca]

Best Jazz Vocal Album

‘Round Midnight, Karrin Allyson [Concord Jazz]
The Mosaic Project, Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists [Concord Jazz]
The Gate, Kurt Elling [Concord Jazz]
American Road, Tierney Sutton (Band) [BFM Jazz]
The Music Of Randy Newman, Roseanna Vitro [Motéma Music]

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Bond: The Paris Sessions, Gerald Clayton [Emarcy/Decca]
Forever, Corea, Clarke & White [Concord Records]
Alone At The Vanguard, Fred Hersch [Palmetto Records]
Bird Songs, Joe Lovano/Us Five [Blue Note]
Road Shows Vol. 2, Sonny Rollins [Doxy/Emarcy/Decca]
Timeline, Yellowjackets [Mack Avenue Records]

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

The Jazz Ballad Song Book, Randy Brecker With DR Big Band [Half Note]
The Good Feeling, Christian McBride Big Band [Mack Avenue Records]
40 Acres And A Burro, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra [Zoho]
Legacy, Gerald Wilson Orchestra [Mack Avenue Records]
Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook, Miguel Zenon [Marsalis Music]

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Wednesday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Sophie Milman
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Katie King Vocal Showcase
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

NEW ORLEANS: The Legacy Band with Clarence Acox
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio
5410 Ballard Ave NW, 8:30pm

BOXLEY’S: Chris Morton Trio
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
6pm – University Prep Jazz Night
1707 NW Market Street, 206-789-1621

LUCID: Vocalize-It Hosted by Kenneth Jones
5241 University Ave NE, 206-402-3042, 9:00pm

VITO’S: Marc Smason + Perry Robinson
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 206-682-2695, 7:00pm

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: The Pereira Project
216 Union Street, Seattle, 206-838-4333, 9:00pm

Matt Jorgensen featured in December DownBeat

Seattle drummer Matt Jorgensen is featured in the Players section of the December issue of Downbeat magazine (with Trombone Shorty on the cover). The issue is currently on newsstands so pick up your copy before the month is out.

The story details Jorgensen’s time in New York, his move back to his hometown of Seattle, the start of Origin Records and some of his recent projects.

Returning to Seattle in 2002, Jorgensen not only established a reputation as a versatile sideman throughout the West Coast; he also helped operate a record label that was starting to receive attention. “The attraction of moving back to Seattle was being able to stay in one town and really have more of a home base,” he said.

… Jorgensen and John Bishop, another Seattle drummer, began Origin Records in 1997 as a means to document their own work, in addition to the music of their friends and peers in the Pacific Northwest. It has developed into an imprint whose catalog includes 340 albums, many featuring nationally recognized artists. After producing a series of bookings at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, the two established the Ballard Jazz Festival in 2003, a five-day event showcasing regional and national artists.

You can read the article online or pick up the December issue of DownBeat (and see the snazy color photo!)

Monday Jazz

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Boyd Phelps Sax Attack
2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

AMORE: JT/TK Quartet
2301 5th Ave, 206-770-0606, 7:30pm

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Primo Kim
555 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, 425-455-2734, 6:00pm

WHITE RABBIT: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder
513 N 36th St Suite E, Seattle, 9:30pm

BOXLEY’S: Carolyn Graye Singer’s Soiree
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

Sunday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3pm – Fairly Honest Jazz Band
8pm – Randy Burgeson Group
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221

JAZZ ALLEY: Ain’t Misbehavin’
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729

BOXLEY’S: Danny Kolke Trio
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

CAFE RACER: Ivan Arteaga
5828 Roosevelt Way NE, 8pm

DARRELL’S TAVERN: Kevin Mccarthy & Friends Jam Session
18041 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline, 8

FAIRE GALLERY CAFE: Monktail session
1351 E Olive Way, Seattle 206-652-0781

SERAFINA: 11:00am: Pasquale Santos; 6:30pm: Anne Reynolds & Tobi Stone
2043 Eastlake Ave E, 206-323-0807

VITO’S LOUNGE: 6pm: Ruby Bishop; 9:30pm: Ron Weinstein Trio
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 6:00pm

PROHIBITION GRILL: Bob Strickland jam
1414 Hewitt Ave, Everett, 425-258-6100, 5:00pm

Saturday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Stephanie Porter Quartet
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Ain’t Misbehavin’
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm

BAKE’S PLACE: Mark DuFresne
4135 Providence Point Dr. SE Issaquah, (425) 391-3335, 7:30pm

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Mia Vermillion
11425 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, 206-772-6891

BOXLEY’S: Bernie Jacobs Quartet
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
9PM: Susan Carr Ensemble
1707 NW Market Street, 206-789-1621

SERAFINA: Tim Kennedy Trio
2043 Eastlake Ave E, 206-323-0807

SCOTCH AND VINE: Brad Buck & Brian Kent
22341 Marine View Dr S, Des Moines, 7:00pm

VITO’S: 6pm: Ruby Bishop
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 6:00pm

VINO AT THE LANDING: Troy Kline
800 N 10th Pl, Renton, 7:00pm

LUCID: Spyn Reset
5241 University Ave NE, 206-402-3042, 9:00pm

CMA GALLERY: Ariel Pocock, Katie Jacobson, Elliot Gray
4501 Interlake Ave N, 7:00pm

SULLIVAN’S STEAKHOUSE: Kevin Mccarthy & Andy Roben
621 Union St, 6:00pm

Photos: Chuck Deardorf and friends

Chuck Deardorf and Friends performing at Cornish College of the Arts
with Chuck Deardorf (bass), Mark Taylor (saxophone), Bruce Foreman (guitar), Dave Peterson (guitar), Dawn Clement (piano) and Mark Ivester (drums).

Wednesday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Ain’t Misbehavin’
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Jazz Workshop
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

NEW ORLEANS: The Legacy Band with Clarence Acox
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio
5410 Ballard Ave NW, 8:30pm

BOXLEY’S: Danny Kolke
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Vocal Showcase featuring Mishel Sawyer
9pm – Vocal Jam hosted by Dan Czaran
1707 NW Market Street, 206-789-1621

LUCID: Johnaye Kendrick/Dawn Clement Duo
5241 University Ave NE, 206-402-3042, 9:00pm

VITO’S: Jerry Zimmerman
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 206-682-2695, 7:00pm

Paul Motian, Jazz Drummer, Is Dead at 80

from The New York Times:

Paul Motian, a drummer, bandleader, and composer of grace and abstraction, and one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last 50 years, died early Tuesday morning at Mount Sinai Hospital in NewYork. He was 80 and lived in Manhattan.

The cause was complications of myelodisplastic syndrome, a bone-marrow disorder, said his friend, Carole d’Inverno Frisell.

Mr. Motian was a living connection to some of the groups of the past that informed what jazz sounds like today: he had been in Bill Evans’s great trio in the late 1950s and early 1960s, playing on the albums “Waltz for Debby” and “Sunday at the Village Vanguard,” and in Keith Jarrett’s American quartet during the 1970s. But it was in the second half of his life that Mr. Motian found himself as a composer and a bandleader, and his own work took off.

He worked steadily, and for the last six years or so almost entirely in Manhattan, with the support of the record producers Stefan Winter and Manfred Eicher, who streamed out his albums, and Lorraine Gordon of the Village Vanguard, who eventually booked his groups for up to four or five weeks per year.

Continue reading at The New York Times.

Tuesday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Ain’t Misbehavin’
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Music Works Big Band
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Jaques Willis
6006 12th Ave South, 206-767-0280, 9:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Future Jazz Heads
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez
808 Post Ave, 206-621-7777, 10:00pm

SEAMONSTER LOUNGE: McTuff Trio
2202 N 45th St, 206-633-1824, 10:00pm

COPPER GATE: Suffering F#ckheads
6301 24th Ave NW, 206-706-3292, 8:00pm

Wayne Horvitz and the OK Hotel Crew are Opening a New Club, The Royal Room, In Columbia City

from The Seattle Weekly Blog:

Eminent local jazz keyboardist Wayne Horvitz has gone into business with Steve Freeborn and Tia Matthies, the couple behind the old OK Hotel who now run the Rendezvous, and are opening a new club in Columbia City next month. The Royal Room is located inside the Royal Esquire Club at 5000 Rainier Avenue South — where John Roderick spent Election Night 2008 — and will include a bar, and a restaurant that will be open for dinner and weekend brunch. Horvitz says they hope to open by the week of December 16.

Continue reading at The Seattle Weekly Blog.

Monday Jazz

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Vocal Jam hosted with the Darin Clendenin Trio
2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

AMORE: JT/TK Quartet
2301 5th Ave, 206-770-0606, 7:30pm

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Primo Kim
555 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, 425-455-2734, 6:00pm

WHITE RABBIT: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder
513 N 36th St Suite E, Seattle, 9:30pm

BOXLEY’S: Courtney Cutchins Quartet
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

Update: Help For Jim Knapp

from Doug Ramsey’s Rifftides:

The fund-raising effort to aid composer, arranger, trumpeter and bandleader Jim Knapp is progressing slowly. Knapp recently lost his right foot and part of his lower leg in an operation to combat diabetes. In a message, he writes, “My recovery is going well. I have a prosthesis now, so I am bipedal again.” His financial recuperation is less stable. Friends and fellow musicians headed by saxophonist Steve Griggs have set a goal of $30,000 to defray Knapp’s medical expenses, which far exceed his insurance coverage. A performance of Knapp’s music earlier this month helped, but Griggs reports that the total is $4,485, more than $25,000 short of the target. He and his group have set up a donation website here.

The benefit concert November 2 at Seattle’s Triple Door included this performance of “Secular Breathing,” the title piece of a 2003 Knapp album. The soloists are Mark Taylor, Steve Treseler and Stuart MacDonald, tenor saxophones; John Hansen, piano; and Jon Hamar, bass.

The other members of the Knapp Orchestra were Jim Dejoie, baritone saxophone; Jay Thomas, Brad Allison and Vern Sielert, trumpets; Tom Varner, French horn; Jeff Hay and Chris Stover, trombones; and Matt Jorgensen, drums.

Bassist Chuck Deardorf swings back into action

from The Seattle Times:

Seattle bassist extraordinaire and Cornish jazz professor Chuck Deardorf, equally at home on acoustic and electric models, celebrates the release of his splendid, swinging and thoughtful album, “Transparence” (Origin), one of the top local releases of the year. Deardorf, who recently had a successful kidney transplant, is back in action, much to the relief of the Seattle jazz community. He is joined by Seattle saxophonist Mark Taylor and Los Angeles-based guitarist Bruce Forman.

8 p.m. Saturday, Poncho Concert Theatre, 710 E. Roy St., Seattle; $10-$20 (206-726-5030 or www.cornish.edu).

Human Spirit on Art Zone tonight

Human Spirit, the group led by Thomas Marriott, Mark Taylor and Matt Jorgensen, will be featured on The Seattle Channel’s Art Zone with Nancy Guppy program tonight, Friday, November 18.

The show airs at 8:00pm on channel 21 and at 11:30pm on channel 9 and features performances by artists from some of Seattle’s top music labels.

Human Spirit, with Ryan Burns on organ, performed Reversal of Fortune from their up-coming 2012 release.

Friday Jazz

MEANY HALL: Alex Acuna
University of Washington, 7:30pm

NEW ORLEANS: Thomas Marriott’s Flexicon
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 8:00pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Joe Doria Organ Trio
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

CREATIVE MUSIC ADVENTURES: Steve Treseler, Chad McCullough, Dan Kramlich and Craig Flory
4501 Interlake Ave N #9, Seattle, 7:30pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Jane Monheit
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm

CAFE PALOMA: Wayne Horvitz
93 Yesler Way, Seattle, 206-405-1920, 7:30pm

BAKE’S PLACE: Geoffrey Castle
4135 Providence Point Dr. SE Issaquah, (425) 391-3335, 7:30pm

HIROSHI’S: Jazz & Sushi
2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio
6423 Latona Avenue NE, 5:00 – 7:00pm, No Cover, 21+

BOXLEY’S: Milo Peterson Trio
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Coreena Brown
11425 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, (206) 772-6891

NORTH CITY BISTRO: David George Quartet
1520 NE 177th, Shoreline, (206) 365-4447, 8:00pm

VITO’S: Casey MacGill
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 206-682-2695

Thursday Jazz

UW MUSIC SCHOOL: Alex Acuna masterclass
UW Music Building, Room 35, 12:30

JAZZ ALLEY: Django Reinhardt Allstars featuring Dorado Schmitt
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Sonando
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE: Bruce Phares, with Overton Berry
1707 NW Market Street, 206-789-1621, 9:00pm

NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson, Tad Britton
5410 Ballard Ave NW, 8:30pm

LUCID: The Hang
5241 University Ave NE, 206-402-3042, 9:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Katy Bourne w/ Hans Brehmer
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

BARCA: Adam Kessler & Phil Sparks Trio
1510 11th Avenue, Seattle, (206) 325-8263, 9:00pm

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Thione Diop
216 Union Street, Seattle, 206-838-4333, 9:00pm

VITO’S: Ron Weinstein Trio
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 206-682-2695

Photos: Tribute to Jim Knapp

from EyeShotJazz.com:


Cornish College and the Seattle jazz community came together on November 2 at the Triple Door to celebrate Jim Knapp, the trumpeter, composer, and band leader who founded the college’s jazz program 40 years ago. Earshot Jazz Festival 20011 presented the Jim Knapp Orchestra, the Cornish big band, and surprise musical guests.