Seattle Times: Drumroll, please: This is Matt Jorgensen’s week
From Paul de Barros’ Friday Seattle Times column:
It’s hard to imagine Seattle jazz these days without drummer Matt Jorgensen.
One of the partners behind Origin Records, not to mention the Ballard Jazz Festival, seattlejazzscene.com, Sunday jazz at the Hendrix Lounge (in Columbia City) … this guy never seems to run out of projects.
This week, however, is not about Jorgensen the playa, but the player. Thursday, the 35-year-old dynamo celebrates the release of “Another Morning” (Origin), the new album by his group, Matt Jorgensen + 451. But he’s also on the other two best jazz tickets in town.
“It’s rare that I get to do three really cool gigs in a week,” said Jorgensen in a phone interview from his car. “After that, 451’s going out on the road for a week, then I’m getting ready for the Ballard Festival. I’ll figure out the rest from there.”
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This Friday is shaping up to be a great night of music.
Saxophonist Hadley Caliman will celebrate the release of his new CD, Gratitude, on Friday, March 21, at Tula’s Jazz Club. The show will feature Joe Locke on vibes, Thomas Marriott on trumpet, Phil Sparks on bass and Matt Jorgensen on drums.
Matt Jorgensen + 451 has created a distinctive music, a free flying jazz sound with a 1960s rock sensibility, bursting with enormous chops. It’s a mix of Ryan Burns‘ often out there, Jimi Hendix-ian keyboard work (wailing on Fender Rhodes, organ and Moog ), Mark Tayor‘s bite-of-lime saxophone tang, Jorgensen’s multi-layered percussion complexities and Phil Sparks‘ deep in the pocket bass work. Mix it up and it’s unmistakable on the blindfold test.
Earshot Jazz collaborates with the Seattle Art Museum in programming and presenting the Art of Jazz Series, now in it’s 13th year. Always well attended, the after-work concerts are free with museum admission — a great bargain given the two-for-one line up of fine jazz and major art exhibits. Join us the Seattle Art Museum on the second Thursday of every month.
Saxophonist Mark Taylor will be performing this Saturday at Tula’s with a quartet featuring Dawn Clement on piano, Chris Symer on bass and Byron Vannoy on drums.