Seattle Jazz Scene

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Byron Vannoy’s Meridian

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

JAZZ ALLEY: UNCF 3rd Annual Music for the Mind Gala

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

JAZZ ALLEY: Manhattan Transfer

CONCERT: Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra w/ Toshiko Akiyoshi
Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland; 3 p.m.
More info at 206-523-6159 or www.srjo.org.

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Sunday Night Salsa: Tor Dietrichson and Mambo Cadillac

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3pm: Jazz Police Big Band
8pm: Jim Cutler Big Band

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

LUCID: Jam Session
5241 University Way

BAKE’S PLACE: Jay Roberts and Don Mock, guitar duo

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from The Seattle Times:

As a Japanese woman and bandleader, Toshiko Akiyoshi was obliged to be a pioneer of one kind or another. In her day, women in jazz were singers and little more, and they certainly were not Japanese.

From the culture she was born to and the one she adopted, she gathered proverbs that even today she finds useful to remember.

“The Japanese have a saying, ‘The nail that sticks out will be beaten down,’ ” said Akiyoshi, who is in Seattle this weekend for a series of concerts and a lecture. “And here they say, ‘If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.’ ”

What Akiyoshi, now 79, accomplished seems unlikely for a woman raised in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, who came to jazz during the American occupation of Japan. As she puts it, she has been “demographically challenged.” She was turned on to jazz by a Teddy Wilson record and got a job playing piano in a dance hall for American officers.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Nathan Eklund CD Release Party

JAZZ ALLEY: Manhattan Transfer

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Elizabeth Carpenter Trio
9pm – Steve Wacker (vocals, guitar) with guest Bob Knetzger (pedal steel, dobro)
11pm – Leif Totusek solo show!

LOCAL COLOR: Hillary Harris

SERAFINA: Jazzukha

LUCID: Kevin McCarthy Quartet

JAZZVOX CONCERT SERIES: Stephanie Nakasian w/ Hod OBrien

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

LATONA PUB: Leif Totusek Trio

HIROSHI’S JAZZ AND SUSHI: Greg Schroeder Quartet

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Manhattan Transfer

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: AXIOM QUARTET featuring John Hansen, Alexey Nikolaev, Jon Hamar and Phil Parisot

NEW ORLEANS: The Bob Jackson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7:00 – TBA
9:00 – Nate Eklund Group CD Release, with Nathan Eklund (trumpet/flugelhorn), Mark Taylor (saxophones), Dawn Clement (piano), Chris Symer (bass), Byron Vannoy (drums)

LUCID: Hardcoretet Headhunters Tribute
5241 University Way, 9:00pm

STANFORDS: Gail Pettis Trio
17380 Southcenter Pkwy, Tukwila, 7:00pm

MOXIE: Dennis Moss

SORRENTO HOTEL: Katy Bourne & Randy Halberstadt

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnon, Tad Britton

LO-FI: Jacob Stickney Quartet, The Teaching

Thursday, March 5 at Tula’s – Axiom Quartet

Alexey Nikolaev – tenor sax
John Hansen – piano
Jon Hamar – bass
Phil Parisot – drums

Tula’s Restaurant and Nightclub
2214 2nd Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
(206)443-4221
7:30 pm
$8 cover

JAZZ ALLEY: Pearl Django with Connie Evingson

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Seattle Community College Jazz Orchestra with Lonnie Mardis

NEW ORLEANS: The Legacy Band w/Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Darin Clendenin (piano) and Clipper Anderson (bass)
9pm – Vocal Jam, hosted by Billy Brandt, with Darin Clendenin (piano) and Clipper Anderson (bass)

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

Ray Vega and Thomas Marriott with New Stories at Tula’s Jazz Club

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JAZZ ALLEY: Pearl Django with Connie Evingson

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Ronin Trio, featuring Kenny Mandell (sax), Don Berman (drums) and Nate Omdal (bass)
9pm – Bob & Sheldon

DEXTER AND HAYES: Tim Kennedy

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom

JAZZ ALLEY: Karen Shivers Quartet

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: VOCAL JAM hosted by Greta Matassa

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

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

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

from The Seattle Times:

n a Nazarene church in Moscow, Idaho, the Garfield High School jazz band performed two charts Saturday night for the first time: “Just You Just Me,” and “I’ve Never Been In Love Before.”

“We played the new charts very well,” said woodwind player Carl Majeau, a senior, “but we could get the dynamics a lot tighter and bring the energy level up a little. When you’re not 100 percent comfortable with the tune, more of your mind goes to playing instead of keeping up the energy level.”

Whatever Majeau and his bandmates may have thought, the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival judges who heard the performance deemed Garfield’s the best of the weekend, naming the group the “outstanding” Class 4A band. For the first time, both Garfield’s A band and its B, or second-string band, won their divisions at the prestigious festival, which has combined performance with jazz education for more than 40 years.

Garfield’s B band and Bellevue’s Sammamish High School were both named outstanding among Class 3A bands. Four members of Garfield’s A band were also recognized as outstanding soloists: Majeau, pianist Andrew Kennard, bassist Colleen Gilligan and trumpeter Riley Mulherkar.

“They’ve been stepping it up ever since the Clark [College Jazz Festival] competition a month ago,” said Garfield band director Clarence Acox.

The Hampton festival, which ran four days, featured performances by jazz greats like Bobby McFerrin, Monty Alexander and Jeff Hamilton. But the central aim of the festival is to nurture young talent from colleges, high schools, middle schools and even elementary schools.

“I am especially pleased with the success of the visiting artists to help show the surrounding communities what supporting our jazz-playing youth is all about,” said festival artistic director John Clayton. “And as always, the Seattle-area schools continue to impress.”

Other soloists from Seattle schools who were honored included: Peter Johnson (violin) from Bishop Blanchet; Andrew Campbell (alto sax) and Andy Clausen (trombone), both from Roosevelt; and drummer Ian Marsanyi from South Whidbey. All of the outstanding soloists performed together Saturday night in a club setting before a crowd of about 300.

Much of the attention in the big-band performance was focused on Garfield and Roosevelt, whose programs have a fierce rivalry. Spokane’s Mead High School was the No. 2 band in the Class 4A category, for the largest schools in the field. Roosevelt’s jazz band received a “special commendation” in the same category.

The jazz bands from Garfield, Roosevelt and Bellevue’s Newport High will compete in May in the Essentially Ellington national jazz-band competition in New York. Roosevelt and Garfield placed first and second, respectively, at Ellington last year.

“Garfield has a very good, very deep program,” said Roosevelt band director Scott Brown. “You’d be pressed to find a program elsewhere in the country with as many strong musicians as Garfield. We feel very proud to be able to perform continually at that same level.

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

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Sunday Night Salsa: Salsariba

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB:
3pm: Reggie Goings / Hadley Caliman
8pm: Jim Cutler Big Band

SERAFINA:
11am-1:30pm: Jazz Brunch: Conlin Roser Duo
6:30-9pm: Ann Reynolds /  Tobi Stone Duo

LUCID: Jam Session
5241 University Way

CONCERT: Randy Oxford and Friends
6pm, Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca at Harvard, 325-6051

CONCERT: Susan Pascal Quartet
4pm, Bainbridge Commons

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