Seattle Jazz Scene

The 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival starts this week. For a complete schedule visit
http://earshot.org/Festival/festival.html

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jazz Jam with Darin Clendenin Trio

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

The Hardcoretet will be performing tonight at Lucid before heading out on a tour that will take them down the west coast and then back to Seattle for a performance at the Earshot Jazz Festival.

more information: http://www.hardcoretetmusic.com/

Mon 10/19 – Sat 10/24 WEST COAST TOUR!

Bocci’s Cellar – Santa Cruz, CA
Juanita’s – Los Angeles, CA
Skinny’s Lounge – Los Angeles, CA
The Jazz Station – Eugene, OR

Wed, Oct 28 @ Tula’s
EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL &
CD RELEASE
2214 2nd Ave
8:30pm – $10 All Ages
Call (206)443-4221 for reservations

Sat, Nov 21 @ Seamonster
2202 N 45th St – 10pm – Free!

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Hadley Caliman

JAZZ ALLEY: Richard Elliot

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Michael Gotz
9pm – Everyday Jones, with Alissa Jandt (vocals/dejembe) and Jason Green (vocals/acoustic guitar/pedals/live looping and sampling)

BAKE’S PLACE: Gail Pettis Quartet

BOXLEY’S: Bryant Urban & Pony Boy Brazilians

LOMBARDI’S: Jay Thomas Trio

SOUTHPORT CAFE: Dan Kramlich Trio

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

LUCID: Hardcoretet w/ Operation ID

LOCAL COLOR: Sue Bell

JAZZ ALLEY: Richard Elliot

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Sonando

NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Kay Bailey with Karin Kajita (piano) and Geoff Cooke (bass)
9pm – Formerly Acronym Quartet, with Max Holmberg (drums), Nolan Woodle (bass), Xavier del Castillo (sax) and Steve Nelson (guitar)

BOXLEY’S: Jay Thomas Trio

LOUJIN CAFE: The Andy Shaw Trio

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: The Hand w/ Teaching

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: Art of Jazz: Greg Williamson Quartet

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Smith/Staelens Big Band

JAZZ ALLEY: Roberta Gambarini

NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Dorothy Rodes with Randy Halberstadt (piano) and Jeff Johnson (bass)
9pm – Vocal Showcase, featuring singers Martine Bron, David Arteaga, and Robert Parks – Hosted by Julie Olsen, with Darin Clendenin (piano), Joe Casalini (bass) and Robert Rushing (drums)

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: Jannie and Friends Jazz Band

BOXLEY’S: Danny Kolke Trio

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

from the new issue of CityArts Magazine:

On August 24, KBCS-FM rolled out its new weekday program grid, replacing Drive Time Jazz with the syndicated public affairs show The Takeaway and eliminating its morning jazz programs (The Bud and Don Show, Bebop Spoken Here, Twentieth-Century Jazz and Vintage Jazz) in favor of airing Friday morning’s hybrid of jazz and world music, The Caravan, five days a week.

According to station manager Steve Ramsey, The Caravan was selected because of host John Gilbreath’s range of musical interests and ability to weave diverse musical threads through the show. “He can play music we air on Saturday nights and make it fit, then point people to the other spots on our schedule where they can hear these other styles of music in more depth,” Ramsey explains.

Gilbreath claims no involvement in strategies involving the show’s artistic direction. “I assume they have a clear vision of what they want to accomplish and it’s my pleasure to help them craft my part of what that looks like for the future,” he says.

It will not be so easy for Richard Gillmann, Iaan Hughes, and Sean Donovan, three of the five hosts of the cancelled Lunch with Folks, who have been retained for the replacement program, The Outskirts. “They will be working more collaboratively than before,” Ramsey says. “If a cool artist is heard on a Monday, you may well hear them again on a Wednesday or a Friday, because the hosts will be sharing playlists. We want the listener to get a similar audio experience no matter which day of the week they tune in. The music director will help sculpt a more consistent sound for that show with a view to being a bit more rootsy and contemporary, while continuing to keep it a folk-based program.”

These changes were implemented without soliciting input from the listeners. Eric Hardee, a volunteer host who has been with the station for eighteen years, says that when Ramsey was asked by the staff why listeners were not consulted, he answered that there was no need to ask them since he already knew what they were going to say.

Continue reading at CityArts Magazine:

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Average White Band

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Chip Parker, with Karin Kajita (piano), Kevin McCarthy (bass), and Paul Miranda (drums)
9pm – Dan Czaran, with Karin Kajita (piano), Kevin McCarthy (bass), Bonnie Birch on accordion and Paul Miranda (drums)
11pm – Vampirates, with Elsa Nilsson (flute), Michael Owcharuk (piano), Nate Omdal (bass) and Cody Rahn (drums)

BAKE’S PLACE: Crossing Borders featuring Jennifer Scott and Kristen Strom

LOMBARDI’S: Leah Stillwell

BOXLEY’S: Bryant Urban & Pony Boy Brazilians
101 W North Bend Way, North Bend, 7:00pm

SOUTHPORT CAFE: Brooks Giles

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

LOCAL COLOR: Sheila Blackwell

SERAFINA: Kelly Ash Trio

13 COINS: Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & Mike Slivka

Saturday, October 3
Volterra Restaurant
festival website

5:00 p.m. ~ WMS Jazz Quartet and String Ensemble
Every year, Seattle Weekly donates five percent of the proceeds from REVERB to a music-related nonprofit. This year, it’s Friends of Washington Music, which helps fund the music program at South Seattle’s Washington Middle School. Tonight’s performance will showcase just a few of those music students; you can find more information at their booth, should you be inspired to donate. SARA BRICKNER

6:00 p.m. ~ Greta Matassa
Easily Seattle’s favorite female jazz vocalist, Matassa is rooted in the tradition of Ella, Sarah, and all the giants of swing and balladry. She delivers standards and lesser-known charts with a pure tone, a knowing heart, and unaffected elegance. If you want to hear what love songs can be like when distilled to the essence of a lost age, come hear Matassa. MARK D. FEFER

7:00 p.m. ~ Matt Jorgensen + 451
One of the city’s most reliably exciting jazz quintets, this band explores the outer reaches of the electro-acoustic landscape with dual saxes, the deft Ryan Burns on Fender Rhodes, and bass anchor man Phil Sparks. Drummer and leader Matt Jorgensen creatively powers the unit. MARK D. FEFER

8:00 p.m. ~ Leif Totusek and Freestyle Candela
In spite of Seattle’s large East African community, live afropop bands tend to be hard to find even when you’re looking for them. Leif Totusek and Freestyle Candela are a needle in Seattle’s indie-rock haystack. Totusek, who’s been in the band for 15 years, plays an African guitar style called soukous that originated in the 1950s in Zaire (currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo)—a shimmery, arpeggiated guitar sound similar to the one Vampire Weekend used on its critically acclaimed 2008 album. Totusek, however, has gone further than lifting a few soukous riffs and adding them to pop songs. In a past interview, he described traveling to London to study soukous from expat African masters; and in his own songs, he’s gone so far as to write lyrics in English and have them translated into the Congolese language Lingala. At live shows, his playing seems to flow in all directions simultaneously: rising and falling, melting from one chord to the next, like miniature fireworks displays constantly exploding with color. ERIK NEUMANN

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Dawn Clement Trio

JAZZ ALLEY: Average White Band

NEW ORLEANS: Ray Skelbred/Bob Jackson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
9pm – Michael Owcharuk (piano) with Michael Catts (bass)

THAIKU: Jon Alberts / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton

BOXLEY’S: Jay Thomas Trio
101 W North Bend Way, North Bend, 7:00pm

LOUNJIN CAFE AND BAR: The Andy Shaw Trio
4527 University Way NE, Seattle, 8:00pm

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: The Hand w/ Teaching