From Friday’s Seattle Times: A couple of years ago, the sensational Bellevue-bred trumpeter and composer Cuong Vu played an unlikely double bill with the Edmonds-Woodway High School Jazz Band.
As emcee, and figuring the crowd was probably more comfortable with Count Basie than Vu’s grunge/jazz, I advised them to just “follow the sound, and the shapes it makes in space and time,” and everything would make sense.
You know what? The audience loved that show.
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Vu’s trio — with special guest Bill Frisell (guitar) — performs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Meany Theater at the UW ($10-$15; 206-543-4880 or www.meany.org). The trio also plays at 7 and 9 p.m. the following night at Egan’s in Ballard ($12; 206-789-1621 or www.ballardjamhouse.com).
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