Jazz Northwest Preview

The Hadley Caliman Quintet featuring Thomas Marriott was featured on the July Art of Jazz concert at The Seattle Art Museum. Portions of this concert will air on Jazz Northwest, Sunday, July 20 at 1 pm PDT on 88.5, KPLU. Music included selections from Hadley Caliman’s resurgent CD, “Gratitude” on Origin Records, produced by Thomas Marriott who also played on the CD.

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.

Listen to the preview below …

Friday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Richard Cole Quartet

THE TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM:
5:00pm: Jason Parker/Josh Rawlings Duo
9:00pm: Tor Dietrichson Blues Machine

JAZZ ALLEY: Gerald Albright

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Wonderland Trio with Steve Tanimoto (piano), Gary Barnes (bass), and Sheldon White (drums). No cover, but donations will be accepted for the Obama presidential campaign.
9pm – Scott Andrew’s “Damn, I should’ve had a CD release” party, with Dennis Jolin (drums/percussion) and Suzanne Picard (keyboard), and guest singers Jerin Falkner, Laurie Katherine Carlsson and Alissa Jandt.
11pm – The Ostrich Plant, with Wayne Horvitz (piano), Geoff Harper (bass) and Eric Eagle(drums)

BAKE’S PLACE: Janis Mann Quartet CD Release Party with Bill Anschell, Jeff Johnson and Clarence Acox

SERAFINA: Kiko de Freitas

GRAZIE: Andre Thomas and Quietfire

HIROSHI’S JAZZ AND SUSHI: Jay Thomas & Friends

KIRKLAND UNCORKED FESTIVAL: Buddy Catlett Trio, Leah Stillwell & Hans Bremer
24 Lakeshore Plaza, Kirkland, 5:00 – 9:00pm

Pony Boy Records at Kirkland Uncorked Festival

Pony Boy Records is presenting a weekend of jazz music at the Kirkland Uncorked Festival this weekend, July 18 – 20.

Kirkland Uncorked is as celebration of great wine, art, food, music and lifestyle benefiting The Hope Heart Institute. Highlights include the Waterfront Lifestyle and Tasting Garden with Wine and Food Samplings, Grilling Competition, Jazz Music presented by Pony Boy Records, Shopping and the Lifestyle Grand Salon. Activities in downtown Kirkland include, an Art Festival, Dog Modeling Contest and the Discover Boating Showcase.

Kirkland Marina Park
24 Lakeshore Plaza, Kirkland, WA

Schedule of music:

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 5:00 – 9:00pm
Buddy Catlett Trio
Leah Stillwell & Hans Bremer

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1:00 – 9:00pm

Monkstone Theocracy
Karen Shivers Quartet
Jay Thomas Quartet
Pony Boy All-Stars

SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1:00 – 6:00pm
Greg Williamson Quartet
Pete Petersen’s Porkpie 7

More Information and Advance tickets:
Purchase tickets online at www.kirklanduncorked.com
***Enter the special promo code MARINA to receive two extra tasting tickets.***
Hurry, advance tickets are limited.

Thursday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Gerald Albright

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Sonando

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson, Tad Britton

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Clave Gringa with Ann-ita Reynolds
9pm – Black Math Quartet, with Brian Heaney (guitar), Liam O’Connor (drums), Tony Sodano (bass), and Matt Reid (trumpet)

LO-FI: The Teaching

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio
1612 N. 45th St, Seattle, 10pm

Wednesday Jazz

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)

Tor Dietrichson and Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee in concert

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.

Have you signed up for the ECM Newsletter? Your email and password might have been compromised.

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.

Hadley Caliman returns to San Francisco


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.

Tuesday Jazz

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

Monday Jazz

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?

Sunday Jazz

Getting sick of all this sun yet?

JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Sunday Night Salsa: Rumbeggae

TULA’S:
3:00pm: Jazz Police
8:00pm: Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra

TUTTA BELLA COLUMBIA CITY: Djangomatics
TUTTA BELLA WALLINGFORD: Casey MacGill’s Blue 4 Trio

SERAFINA:
11am – 1:30pm: Jazz Brunch w/the Conlin Roser Duo
6:30 – 9:00pm: Jerry Frank, solo piano

La SPIGA: Gail Pettis Trio

DOCKSIDE BISTRO: Susan Pascal Quartet w/Dave Peterson, Jon Hamar, Brad Boal, 501 Columbia St NW B, Olympia, WA (360-956-1928)

Saturday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Kelley Johnson Quartet

SORRENTO HOTEL: Katy Bourne (vocals) w/ Nick Moore (piano), Fireside Room, 900 Madison St, Seattle, 7:30pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Das Vibenbass

BAKE’S PLACE: Visiting Songbirds Series: Mary Kadderly

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Mercedes Nicole, w/Bill Anschell (piano), Michael Barnett (bass), Jeremy Jones (drums)
9pm – Mike Owcharuk Septet
11pm – Moe Provencher with Aimee Zoe Tubbs (drums), Bobcat Bob Rice (guitar), Shelley Schmelzer (drums), and Michele Khazak (vocals)

HENDRIX LOUNGE: Phil Parisot Band

SERAFINA: Leo Raymundo w/Sue Nixon

GRAZIE: Lee Pence

We know there’s more! Send us a note and let us know.

Friday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Susan Pascal Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: James Baumgart Duo

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Logan Strosahl Ensemble
9pm – Nancy K. Dillon and Ghost Tree, with Paul Elliot (fiddle), Jay Weaver (drums) and Nancy on electric guitar. Jawsh Anderson opens the show with a short set

HIROSHI’S: Alexi Nikolev

SERAFINA: The Djangomatics

GRAZIE: Lee Pence

LATONA PUB: Matt Jorgensen/Phil Sparks(5:00 – 7:00pm)

Don’t hold out on us now–send us a note and let us know if there’s more!

Thursday Jazz

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.

Roosevelt Tour Update

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.

Wednesday Jazz

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

Tuesday Jazz

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

Monday Jazz

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

Up-Coming: Sara Gazarek at Jazz Alley

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.