Saturday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Lorber with Special Guests Christian Scott and Kyle Eastwood

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Quartet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Tom Baker Quartet
9pm – Lisa Marshall and the Dirty Girls
11pm – Jim Knodle and the Distract Band

LOCAL COLOR: Maggie Laird

SERAFINA: Fred Hoadley Trio

LUCID: Ken Curtis, John Lilley, Stephen Yamada-Heidner

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

BAKE’S PLACE: David Lanz

Friday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Lorber with Special Guests Christian Scott and Kyle Eastwood

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Susan Pascal Quartet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Sunship
9pm – Speak, with Aaron Otheim (piano), Andrew Swanson (sax), Chris Icasiano (drums), Cuong Vu (trumpet) and Luke Bergman (bass). With special guest guitarist Alex Pinto, winner of the third place prize at the 2008 Gibson Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition
11pm – Passarim

LOCAL COLOR: Jenni Wren

SERAFINA: Fred Hoadley Trio

LUCID: Mack Grout Trio

SPECIAL CONCERT: Michael Owcharuk: Slava! Ukrainian Carols
Trinity Episcopalian Church, 609 8th Ave

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

NORTH CITY BISTRO: Doug Reid Qaurtet

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet

I think this show is going to be good

THIS THURSDAY FEB 26 AT THE OWL AND THISTLE!!!

Mike Clark – drums
Joe Doria – hammond B3 organ
Andy Coe – guitar
Skerik – sax

The Owl ‘n Thistle
808 Post Alley
Seattle
(we didn’t get a start time in the email … but they usually start around 9pm)

MIKE CLARK gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock’s group in the early 1970’s. Mike became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock’s Thrust album, which garnered him an international cult following.

Mike has performed with jazz greats such as Herbie Hancock, Chet Baker, Tony Bennett, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Woody Shaw, Larry Coryell, Jack Wilkins, Wallace Roney, Geri Allen, Billy Childs, James Genus, Bob Hurst, Chris Potter, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Dave Liebman, Nat Adderly, Oscar Brown Jr., Bill Doggett, Mose Allison, Maxine Brown, Gil Evans and his orchestra….

Thursday Jazz

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Mike Clark, Joe Doria, Skerik, Andy Coe

JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Lorber with Special Guests Christian Scott and Kyle Eastwood

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Vocal Workshop

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

THAIKU: Jon Alberts / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton

SERAFINA: Sue Nixon Duo

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Secondhand Sunday, with Brian Straub (guitar/vocals/writing), Tom Humphreys (guitar/vocals/writing), Chris Quirk (drums), Gar Hooker (bass) and Paul Hutzler (lap steel)
9pm – Moraine, with Dennis Rea (guitar), Alicia Allen (violin), Stephen Thomas Cavit (drums), Ruth Davidson (cello) and Kevin Millard (bass, Warr guitar)

LUCID: Trio Subtonic

FRANK DIMIERO JAZZ FESTIVAL: Sara Gazarek
Edmonds Center for the Arts

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio

Earshot Spring Series starts tonight

Wednesday, February 25, 7 & 9:30 pm
Bill Frisell & Russell Malone

Presented by KBCS 91.3

The New York Times recently proclaimed: “It’s hard to find a more fruitful mediation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell.” For this concert, the Seattle treasure pairs with up-and-coming guitarist Russell Malone, who is making his mark in the jazz world by blazing his own, decidedly unique trail into “The Great American Songbook.” Not to be missed.

The Triple Door

216 Union Street (downtown)
Seattle
$22 advance / $25 day of show

Tickets available at Triple Door box office (216 Union Street)
(206) 838-4333
www.tripledoor.net.

Wednesday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Eliane Elias

TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: Bill Frisell / Russell Malone

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Dorothy Rodes Quartet with Jeff Johnson and Dave Peterson

NEW ORLEANS: The Legacy Band w/Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Dave Anderson Quartet, with Dave Anderson (saxes), Chuck Kistler (bass), John Hansen (piano) and Adam Kessler (drums)
9pm – Vocal Jam hosted by Katy Bourne, with Randy Halberstadt (piano)

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

SERAFINA: Pasquale Santos, solo violin

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

Karen Shivers at Jazz Alley

Karen Shivers Quartet

March 2, 2009, 7:30pm
JAZZ ALLEY

http://www.jazzalley.com
Reservations: 206-441-9729

The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents vocalist Karen Shivers and her band for one night only. Band members include Bill Anschell (piano), Doug Miller (bass), and Greg Williamson (drums). Doors open at 6:00pm and show starts at 7:30pm.

Seattle based jazz vocalist Karen Shivers, is considered a ‘natural’; she has a wide-vocal range that is powerful, warm and rich. She is a singer steeped in the ‘classic’ vocal style of Sarah Vaughn and Carmen McRae. In 2008, Karen won the Seattle/Kobe Japan Sister City Female Jazz Vocalist Competition. Karen’s sophisticated approach to songs includes a mixture of attitude, verve and soul. The ever-increasing recognition of Karen’s talent has created opportunities for her to open for such world renowned jazz vocalists as: Ms Dianne Reeves and Ms Ernestine Anderson.

Born in St. Louis, MO., Karen is the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman and an elementary school teacher. Karen was the first African American woman elected to office in Kitsap County, WA, and served as a Central Kitsap School Board member in Silverdale, WA. She attended UPS Law School, but left it to be a Caregiver when her mother became terminally ill. After her mother’s death, she decided to pursue what she had always loved to do, singing jazz. Karen developed her singing style while working along side jazz pianist Bob Nixon, former pianist for Pulitzer-winner Charles Mingus and Ernestine Anderson.

Karen’s sophomore CD, “Precious Love” (12/05, Pony Boy Records), was listed as one of the best new Jazz CD releases for 2005, by KPLU 88.5, Jazz NW host Jim Wilke. Karen will be joined in concert by her CD Band mates: Bill Anschell (piano), Doug Miller (bass), and Greg Williamson (drums).

Tuesday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: MusicWorks Big Band

JAZZ ALLEY: Elaine Elias

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jason Parker Quartet
9pm – Eric Apoe and Reggie Garrett

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom

DEXTER AND HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio

Sunday Jazz

JAZZ ALLEY: Jane Monheit

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Sunday Night Salsa: Rumbeggae

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3pm: Fairly Honest Big Band
8pm: Jim Cutler Big Band

SERAFINA:
11am-1:30pm: Jazz Brunch: Conlin Roser Duo
6:30-9pm: Jerry Frank, solo piano

LA SPIGA: Gail Pettis Duo

GALLERY 1412: Seattle Improvised Music Festival
www.seattleimprovisedmusic.com

LUCID: Lee Redfield Trio and Jam Session
5241 University way

Drop us a line and let us know what else is happening tonight!

Saturday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Thomas Marriott & Ray Vega with New Stories ** SJS Recommended

JAZZ ALLEY: Jane Monheit

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Feel Burlie

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – The Hayburners
9pm – Wally Schnalle CD Release
11pm – Wally Schnalle CD Release

LOCAL COLOR: Benjamin Doerr

SERAFINA: Leo Raymundo w/ Sue Nixon

LUCID: Adam Hunter

GRAZIE: Blues Union

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE: Seattle Improvised Music Festival
www.seattleimprovisedmusic.com

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet

Name your own price at Frank DeMiero Jazz Festival

Tickets for the up-coming Frank DeMiero Jazz Festival are now being offered to the public at not just a reduced price, but at “name your own price” prices.

Emails have been sent out offering tickets to all three headlining concerts, which are currently priced between $35 – 40 each, for whatever the ticket buyer would like to pay.

From the email:
For a limited time, we invite you to NAME YOUR PRICE. That’s right, you decide how much to pay for tickets to the 33rd annual Friends of Frank DeMiero Jazz Festival:

– Sara Gazarek (Thurs., Feb. 26): valued at $35
– John Pizzarelli (Fri., Feb. 27): valued at $40
– Carmen Bradford (Sat., Feb. 28): valued at $35

We understand that the state of the economy is unsettling. And yet, your support of this cause is important. That’s why we invite you to NAME YOUR PRICE for tickets.

This comes after the Frank DeMiero Jazz Festival made news by contacting The Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) to back up vocalist Carmen Bradford, advertising the show, and later booking The Mach One Orchestra for less money and removing SWOJO from the bill. {You can read Seattle Jazz Scene’s story here.}

For more information about Name Your Own Price tickets to the Frank DeMiero Jazz Festival, click here.

Doug Ramsey: Portland Jazz Festival Part 1

from Doug Ramsey’s Rifftides blog:

The sagging economy has led the Portland Jazz Festival to cancel one of the major concerts of its final weekend. Artistic director Bill Royston announced that for the first time in his 32-year-career as a jazz impresario he was pulling the plug on a primary event. Advance sales to a Friday night concert by singer Cassandra Wilson and pianist Jason Moran amounted to about 400 seats in a 3000-seat hall in downtown Portland. Royston called the cancellation “an arduous decision.”

Despite difficult economic times, Royston said, overall attendance at the two-week festival so far has been down only twelve percent compared with the 2008 festival. Tickets for the Wilson-Moran concert lagged despite Ms. Wilson having won a Grammy award last week. Royston said that other weekend concerts will go on. Among the headliners are Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Donaldson, Aaron Parks, Pat Martino, Jane Bunnett and Kurt Elling.

Last weekend, it seemed that, except for a few empty rows in the backs of the halls, the concerts were well attended. Portland’s weather, which can be rainy at this time of year, was cold and dry, making for exhilarating trips through downtown between concert halls, clubs and restaurants. Since I last attended the Portland festival in 2007, it has made a significant improvement in the way it presents music. The prime-time evening concerts now take place not in hotel ballrooms with boomy acoustics and frustrating sight lines, but in performance halls designed for satisfying aural and visual experiences.

Continue reading Doug Ramsey’s Rifftides blog.

East/West Trumpet Summit: Ray Vega meets Thomas Marriott

RAY VEGA / THOMAS MARRIOTT
with the New Stories Trio

Marc Seales, Doug Miller and John Bishop

Friday – Saturday, February 20-21
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB

2214 2nd Ave, Seattle
8:00pm, $15
Call 206-443-4221 to make a reservation

The band will be recording both nights for an up-coming CD on Origin Records. Be a part of history and reserve your table today by calling 206-443-4221.

Friday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Thomas Marriott & Ray Vega with New Stories ** SJS Recommended

BENAROYA HALL: Crossover Concerto w/ Yuri Bashmet & Igor Butman

CAFE HARLEQUIN: Finn Hill Jazz Quartet w/ Kay Bailey
107 Lake Street, Kirkland

JAZZ ALLEY: Jane Monheit

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Hardcoretet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – MJ Bishop Tour Sendoff Show!
9pm – Aria Prame (vocals), with Josh Rawlings (piano), Nate Omdal (bass) and Jeremy Jones (drums)
11pm – JL Stiles

LOCAL COLOR: Fathia Atallah

LUCID: Change Runners

GRAZIE: Michael Matthews Trio

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE: Seattle Improvised Music Festival

Thursday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Sonando

JAZZ ALLEY: Jane Monheit

LO-FI: The Teaching

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Chris Morton Trio featuring Siobhan Brugger, two-time soloist winner at the Lionel Hampton Jazz festival and the 2008 Seattle-Kobe Sister City Jazz Competition winner!
9pm – Kevin McCarthy Quartet

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

THAIKU: Jeff Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton

MOXIE: Dennis Moss
530 1st Ave North, Seattle, 8-10pm

Jim Wilke: PDX Jazz

Judy and I took the train on Friday and went to the Joe Lovano conversation with Doug Ramsey at the Art Bar, had dinner there and went to the main event of the opening night – the first public performance with full orchestra of Terence Blanchard’s “A Tale of God’s Will” (Requiem for Katrina). The CD won a Grammy last year. It is very moving music, a lament for New Orleans, and very stirring. Sound was a bit of a problem, the strings were miced, the second violins were louder than the firsts and the sound was grainy, to boot. Wish they had played it entirely acoustically – in Schnitzer Hall it would have sounded better, but we were glad to be able to hear it live. Terence’s introductions added a lot to the program. An opening set with Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quintet was not very satisfying for us, but after the concert, Devin Phillips (a New Orleans refugee now living in Portland) was leading his very swinging quintet at the Art Bar across the street…. a great nightcap. Sometimes the local cats outshine the visitors.

Joe Lovano’s Us5 is a new group I hadn’t heard and was curious about. They played Saturday afternoon at the Portland Art Museum Ballroom which seemed acoustically friendly to jazz. Walking in we immediately noticed two drumsets on stage and thought “Oh-oh…” but about half way through the first tune, we were looking at each other and saying “Wow!” Gerry Hemmingway and Francisco Mela were the drummers, both energetic and imaginative and very complimentary. They didn’t have a drum battle, they didn’t both play all the time, and when they switched from one to the other it was seamless. They traded back and forth with Joe, pianist James Weidman and bassist Michael Formanek. It was one of the highlights of the weekend. Jacky Terrasson Trio opened, with a lot of sizzle but seemingly lacking much substance.

We passed on the Dianne Reeves concert, but look forward to seeing her at Bellevue with Russell Malone. We had a nice dinner at Jake’s Grill and went to the late set Saturday night with John Scofield Trio at the Art Museum Ballroom again. Sco’ played with Matt Penman on bass and Bill Stewart (another great drummer!). Joe Lovano introduced them, and Sco’ said he’d be back. After several trio tunes, Lovano joined them and they played like they were still a working group (Joe was in the band in the early 90s). The crowd included a lot of younger listeners and they were really into it. We sat next to a couple of kids, one a guitarist, the other a drummer and they were in heaven! Great concert!
We wrapped up the night at the Art Bar again, with Dave Frishberg, John Gross and Charlie Doggett Trio doing some rare tunes (Dave doesn’t sing with this group, they have a different repertoire.) Nice hang with Lovano, Doug Ramsey, Michael Cuscuna, Ashley Kahn, et al. We closed the joint.

Some of the audiences were disappointingly small – the Terence Blanchard concert especially, and nothing appeared close to selling out. Probably the biggest crowd we saw was at the Scofield concert. They have now cancelled next Friday night’s main event with Cassandra Wilson and Jason Moran due to poor advance sales, but all other concerts and events are going on.

Seattle Times: A Russian jazz-classical fusion at Benaroya Hall

from The Seattle Times:

Although he was born and raised in the former Soviet Union, Igor Butman’s life was destined to have an American flavor to it.

His father was, of all things, a drummer in a Dixieland jazz band, the best in all of Leningrad. The opportunities to listen to and play jazz were few, but the young Butman found them.

He studied the clarinet, then the saxophone, growing up to become perhaps the most famous jazz musician in all of Russia. He is often called the Russian Wynton Marsalis and was a favorite of President Clinton.

Butman, 47, is a true celebrity in Russia, a one-person entertainment enterprise. He is a cultural ambassador, bandleader, owner of a jazz club, television host and celebrity in his homeland. He is the face of jazz in Russia.

Continue reading at The Seattle Times.

Wednesday Jazz

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Al Keith Group

JAZZ ALLEY: Jane Monheit

TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: John Jorgenson Quintet

NEW ORLEANS: The Legacy Band w/Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Cindy Phillips (vocals) and Darin Clendenin (piano)
9pm – Vocal Jam, hosted by Fathia Atallah, with the Bruce Barnard Trio

TUTTA BELLA: Djangomatics

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

Tuesday Jazz

TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: McTUFF presents THE DAVE LEWIS REVUE

JAZZ ALLEY: Jane Monheit

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Roadside Attraction

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Jam Session

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jump Ensemble
9pm – Axiom

DEXTER AND HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom