Seattle Jazz Scene

JAZZ ALLEY: Dobet Gnahore

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jake Bergevin Group

NEW ORLEANS: Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

LO-FI: SEAllective

TRAVELLERS TEA CO: Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee and Tor Dietrichson
501 East Pine Street, 8pm

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Tarik Abouzied Quartet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
6pm – Liis Todd, with Darin Clendenin (piano), Clipper Anderson (bass), and Jose Martinez (drums)
8pm – Vocal jazz jam session hosted by Carrie Wicks, with Nelda Swiggett (piano) and Mark Bullis (bass)

Calcutta sitar player Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee and tabla player Tor Dietrichson will perform a Classical Indian Raga Concert on Wednesday, July 16th at 8 PM at Travelers Tea Co. located at 501 East Pine Street.

Mr. Chatterjee is known throughout India for his vast knowledge of raga music and has reached the highest levels as a performer of sitar music. He has played over 50 years and has traveled throughout the world performing his music.

Admission is $15.00 at the door. Travelers is a very beautiful teahouse, restaurant and store which deals in many beautiful things from India.

Today we received a nice email from ECM Records listing some of their new releases.

The first thing we noticed was that they pasted all of the email addresses beginning with “b” and “c” into the CC section. This means that everyone receiving the email can see who it was sent to.

The larger problem is that somehow all of the passwords that people used when signing up for the ECM Newsletter were also included. And if you are like us, the same passwords get used for multiple websites.

As of right now it appears that ECM has given all of their newsletter subscribers the email addresses and passwords of everyone on their list.

If you have registered for the ECM Newsletter we strongly suggest that you change your email password.

Multiple calls to ECM in New York were busy.

Thomas Marriott and Hadley Caliman at Seattle Art Museum (photo by Jim Wilke)

Saxophonist Hadley Caliman will be heading to San Francisco this weekend to perform at Pearl’s Jazz Club. Joining Caliman will be Thomas Marriott on trumpet, Matt Jorgensen on drums and Will Blades on Hammond B3 organ.

JULY 18 – 19
JAZZ AT PEARL’S
256 Columbus Ave (Pacific)
San Francisco, CA 94133
call for tickets: 415-291-8255

You can also catch a broadcast of Hadley Caliman’s set at Earshot’s Art of Jazz this weekend on KPLU, Sunday, July 20 at 1 pm PDT on 88.5fm.

The veteran saxophonist Hadley Caliman has performed with a wide variety of artists ranging from Gerald Wilson to Santana. He recorded four albums earlier in his career, but “Gratitude” is his first album in several decades. He taught at Cornish College for over 20 years, and today leads his own groups and is a featured soloist with The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra.

Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke exclusively for 88.5 KPLU. The program also streams to the internet simultaneously with the broadcast and is available as podcast after the airdate.

JAZZ ALLEY: Dobet Gnahore

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Roadside Attraction

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Egan’s very own house band, with “Big” Ben Sweeney (guitar), Anton “The Kitchen Guy” Seibel (bass) and Emily “Bam Bam” Derrill (drums) – Country/folk/rock originals.
9pm – Harvey Wainapel, with Byon Vannoy (drums) and Phil Sparks (bass)

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
6006 12th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98108, 206-767-0280, 9:00pm

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

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

WASABI BISTRO: Brazilian Jazz

Anything else happening today?

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: Hadley Caliman Quintet
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, 5:30pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Susan Carr Ensemble

LO-FI: The Teaching

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jon Sheckler Group, with Jon Sheckler (drums), Erika Price (piano), Nathan Parker (bass), and Eli Miesner (guitar)
9pm – The Dandelion Greens – Roots/Americana with Pete Keating (guitar/percussion/vocals), Joe Cook (upright bass/accordion), Talia Marcus (fiddle), Tim Dolan (banjo), and Heidi Schuler (accordion)

TWISTED CORK WINE BAR: Kevin McCarthy Quartet
900 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue Hyatt

CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE: Sunship
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N
From Earshot Jazz: Half of the powerful, late-and-lamented Stinkhorn reemerged a couple of years back as Sunship – named, of course, for the mighty John Coltrane Quartet album of the early 1960s. The guitarist from Stinkhorn, Brian Heaney, and the horn player, Michael Monhart, teamed up with bassist Andrew Luthringer and drummer David Revelli (Grassy Knoll) for a new lineup of outstanding range and imagination. Then, the band’s distinctive sound and approach drew the attention, and quickly the membership, of trombone virtuoso and Seattle new-music legend Stuart Dempster. The result is a quintet quite unlike any other, always transporting, joyful, and meditative whether in full flight or free floe. At the Chapel Performance Space in Wallingford, tonight and also on 7/23) where they collaborate with the room’s sonorous vaulted-ceiling performance space, formerly a chapel.

Andy Clausen reports from the Roosevelt High School big band tour of europe:

We have had an amazing first week touring through France.

On Monday we flew into Paris and immediately drove to Beaune. After one night in this beautiful old village, we drove to a small town outside of Lyon.

On Wednesday, we opened for Le Big Band de L’Ouest at The Periscope Club in Lyon. It was a lot of fun to hang with the band and hear them play.

On Thursday, we were scheduled to perform at Jazz A Vienne; the biggest jazz festival in France. Unfortunately, due to poor weather, our outdoor concert was cancelled. But we had the great opportunity of hearing Ornette Coleman on the main stage that evening.

Friday we drove through the beautiful countryside to St. Maximin in the heart of the Provence region. We had a great performance that evening in the town square of a very small village near St. Maximin. On saturday, we performed at church in another small provencal town. On Sunday we drove from St. Maximin, along the Cote D’Azur all the way to Monterosso Al Mare. This town is one of five small costal villages known as Cinque Terre. We have a performance schedule on Tuesday night. Then we will for to Florence and Perugia.

What a great opportunity.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: MusicWorks Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ ALLEY: Sara Gazarek

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Motel 5

NEW ORLEANS: Legend Band with Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
6pm – Mike Gullo and Friends, with Mike Gullo (vocals), Scotty Bemis (piano), Brian “Blade” Greggs (drums), and Colleen Gilligan (bass)
8pm – Vocal jazz jam session, hosted by Carrie Wicks with Victor Noriega (piano)

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

FREE NOONTIME CONCERT!
Sonando at Bellevue City Hall (450 110th Ave NE, Bellevue)

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ ALLEY: Sara Gazarek

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Nate Omdal Nonet, with Brian Bermudez (alto sax), Mike Dodge (tenor sax), Andrew Morrill (bari sax), Corey Dansereau (trumpet), Jason Parker (flugelhorn), Andy Clausen (trombone), Mike Owcharuk (piano), Jim Parsons (drums), and Nate Omdal (arranger, bass)

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
6006 12th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98108, 206-767-0280

TRIPLE DOOR: James Hunter

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: VOCAL JAM with Greta Matassa

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder
513 N. 36th St., Seattle, 10:00pm

LA SPIGA: Eli Rosenblatt

SEATTLE DRUM SCHOOL: Jim Knapp Orchestra
12510 15th Ave NE, Seattle, 8:0pm

Tue – Wed, July 8 – 9, 7:30pm
Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue
Seattle WA 98121
Reservations: 206.441.9729

Championed by some of music’s most celebrated figures, Sara Gazarek has emerged as a strikingly original artist with limitless potential. Blessed with a gorgeous, translucent voice, excellent pitch and supple sense of time, Gazarek is steeped in the jazz tradition, but is not afraid to embrace the music that moves her generation.

Her most recent release, Return To You was created by the same talented team that put together Yours (including Grammy-award nominated bass master John Clayton as producer) and her equally youthful, all-star LA based band. Return To You features well-planned arrangements of more contemporary standards by songwriters Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Harry Connick Jr., and Gillian Welch. Some for the best material however, comes from Gazarek’s acclaimed pianist, Josh Nelson, as he displays his considerable gifts as a composer and lyricist with four new songs.

Born and raised in Seattle, she was exposed to a variety of art forms at a very early age. Gazarek attended Roosevelt High School where she fell in love with its award-winning jazz program instantly. Under the influence of jazz educator and trombonist Scott Brown, Gazarek traveled as a soloist with the school’s jazz orchestra to NYC to compete in the nationally acclaimed Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival in 2000. Presented at the Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, Gazarek was awarded the first ever Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Vocalist Award.

Deems Tsutakawa, Michael Powers, Jovino Santos Neto, Greta Matassa and Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder are among the groups performing at various Seattle free summer concerts.

The Seattle Times has a complete lineup of the various events and artists.

Seattle Times Article
Complete Free Summer Concert Listing

JAZZ ALLEY: Acoustic Alchemy

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM:
Happy Hour: Kiko Freitas; Baby Bok Choy

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Beth Winter / Dawn Clement Quartet

NEW ORLEANS: The Bob Jackson Band

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Todo Es, with Ken Curtiss (guitar), John Lilley (bass) and Stephen Yamada-Heidner (percussion/steel drum)
9pm – First Circle – Original Contemporary Jazz with Michael Cosgrove and Larry Messer (guitars), Jeff Fiorini (bass) and Lars Larson (drums)

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson and Tad Britton

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

LO-FI: The Teaching

JAZZ ALLEY: Acoustic Alchemy

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Nelda Swiggett Trio

NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
6pm – The Daly Quartet, with Blair Daly (drums), Ryan Clodfelter (guitar), Ivan Arteaga (sax) and Devin Lowe (bass)
8pm – Vocal jazz jam session, hosted by Carrie Wicks with the Dan Sales Trio

TUTTA BELLA: Kiko Freitas

BENAROYA HALL: Mark OConnors Hot Swing

Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson’s home has been saved from foreclosure – for now. Thanks, in part, to music legend Quincy Jones and contemporary jazz artist Diane Schuur.

More than $43,000 poured in – including donations from Jones and Schuur – after recent news stories about the Seattle jazz legend’s financial woes, said Carmen Gayton, a friend of Anderson’s family.

The money to stop the foreclosure was delivered Monday, Gayton added. She declined to say how much Jones and Schuur had donated.

But Gayton said Anderson, 79, needs more money in order to be able to decrease the monthly payments on her principal loan balance of nearly $460,000. Gayton added that a financial manager is working pro-bono to look for ways to restructure Anderson’s loan, which has monthly payments of more than $4,400.

Read the entire AP story at The Seattle Times

The 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival will run from October 17 – November 2.

Now in its 20th year, the Earshot Jazz Festival presents the full spectrum of jazz — from high profile concerts in Seattle’s fine halls, to cutting-edge creations that move the art form ever forward. The event is respected for honoring the deep heritage of jazz while celebrating the leading edges of the art form. This year’s festival will present hundreds of the most important artists of our day in more than 60 events in venues all around Seattle. In addition to concert performances, the festival includes educational programs and panels, a film series, poetry and author readings, and art exhibits.

Coming in 2008

Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispel, Maceo Parker, Billy Bang, Larry Ochs, Ravi Coltrane, Marcin Wasilewski, Gerry Granelli’s V-16, James Moody w/ Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, and many, many more.

For more information, visit: http://earshot.org/Festival/festival.html

BENAROYA HALL: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ ALLEY: Acoustic Alchemy

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Chris Spencer, Matt Jorgensen, Devin Lowe

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

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