SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: Hadley Caliman Quintet featuring Thomas Marriott
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jose Gonzales & Oghale
NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – First Circle with Michael Cosgrove (guitar), Larry Messer (guitar), Jeff Fiorini (bass) and Lars Larson (drums)
9pm – Joe Jencks and Wes Weddell
BOXLEY’S: Marcus Brothers Quartet
LUCID: The Hang w/ The Teaching
SEAMONSTER: Hammond B3 Night
THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton
Come out and have some fresh food and catch some live jazz. Lots of friends coming by tonight to sit in…
Pony Boy Records Presents JAZZ and SUSHI
Friday Nights – Hiroshi’s Restaurant
2501 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA
ph: (206)726-4966, no cover, 7:30 – 10:00
Sushi master Hiroshi and his gang prepare a full menu of Japanese cuisine that is fresh, tasty, and full of flavor – all matched with some very special sake and beverages (try the plumb wine) Favored by local Japanese and music lovers, Hiroshi’s has been featuring live jazz on Friday nights for over three years – presented by the Pony Boy Records stable of artists. Come by for some fine food, and see who will be sitting in with the band – Fridays have become a ‘happening’ on Eastlake! Cheers!
Friday, Jan 15 – Marcus Brothers Re-convergence
A musical family reunion form all over the globe!
Dan Marcus, trombone & low horns
Michael Marcus, bass”Papa” Marcus, clarinet
Bill Anschell, piano
Greg Williamson, drums
Friday, Jan 22 – Greg Williamson Quartet Happy Birthday Bash
Alexey Nikolaev, sax
John Hansen, piano
Jon Hamar, bass
Greg Williamson, drums
Friday, Jan 29 – Ocho Pies – Cuban & World Jazz
New CD coming soon!
Paul Hjelm, guitar
Steve Luceno, guitar
Michael Olson, percussion
Connie Bunyer, vocal & percussion
photos by Jim Levitt
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra
NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
SHERMAN CLAY PIANO STORE: Ariel Pocock Trio
DEXTER AND HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio
SEAMONSTER LOUNGE: McTuff Trio
OWL & THISTLE: Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez
MIX: Don Mock
MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita
Photos by Jim Levitt
Ray Vega’s East/West Trumpet Summit, featuring Seattle musicians Thomas Marriott, Jeff Johnson and Matt Jorgensen as well as former-Olympian Travis Shook, just returned from a week at Marians Jazzroom in Bern, Switzerland, performing with the New York trumpeter.
The group recorded a new CD last month which will be released in the Summer on Origin Records.
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Amber Tone Trio and the Jason Parker Quartet
NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet
TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Hadley Caliman Quintet with Kay Bailey
JAZZ ALLEY: Pearl Django with Special Guest Larry Coryell
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Isabella du Graf with Randy Halberstadt (piano)
9pm – Susan Harper Conspiracy with Special Guest Jean Mann
BAKE’S PLACE: Greta Matassa & Josh Nelson
LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio
BOXLEY’S: Susan Pascal Trio
CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE: Seattle Composers Salon
EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio
LUCID: Bryan Smith Quartet
LOMBARDI’S: Jon Hamar Trio
SERAFINA: Kelly Ash Trio
TOST: Hardcoretet w/ Farko Collective
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Tom Varner Quartet
THAIKU: Jon Alberts / Tad Britton Trio
JAZZ ALLEY: Pearl Django with Special Guest Larry Coryell
BOXLEY’S: Hans Brehmer
NEW ORLEANS: Ray Skelbred/Bob Jackson Quintet
LUCID: The Hang w/ The Teaching
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Andrew Mulherkar Quartet, with Andrew Mulherkar (tenor sax), Gus Carns (piano), Luke Bergman (bass) and Zach Para (drums)
9pm – Logan Strosahl Quintet, with Logan Strosahl (sax), Charlie Fisher (trumpet), Birch Pereira (bass), Evan Woodle (drums) and Gus Carns (piano)
TRIPLE DOOR: Jessica Williams
Sundays: Tracy Knoop Quartet
Alto sax’s great quartet with John Hansen, piano; Larry Holloway, bass; Greg Williamson, drums. Settling in for some great live recording.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Tracy Knoop has played all over the world with such greats as Mel Torme, Ray Charles, and Buddy Rich just to name a few…as well as playing lead alto for 10 years with The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Currently, Tracy continues to perform and teach in the greater Seattle/Tacoma area. www.tracyknoop.com
**Family Night – Kids Meals are $3
Sunday, January 10: Special Sax Summit with guests Bill Ramsay (grand-master sax with Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and many more) and North Bend’s Matt Wenman (former student of Knoop, band director @ Twin Falls Middle School)
Wednesdays: The Danny Kolke Trio
Danny is North Bend’s own jazz pianist, featuring a blend of Gene Harris style blues and straight ahead jazz. His CD “A New Meaning” will be released on Pony Boy Records this month.
Thursdays: Pony Boy Stablemates & Friends
7th Hans Brehmer
14th Marcus Bros.+Pops
21st Clark Gibson
28th Monkstone Theocracy
**Date Night! Half-price bottles of wine (under $50)
Fridays: Susan Pascal Trio & Guests
Jazz vibraphonist Susan Pascal strikes a fine balance between spontaneity and imaginative arrangements, originals and great jazz and American songbook standards. Fun to watch, and fun to listen, with Dave Petersen, guitar; and Chuck Deardorf, bass.
Saturdays: Karen Shivers Quartet
A fabulous vocalist and a favorite at Boxley’s, you’ll enjoy her music time and time again. Our first in the series, “Karen Shivers Quartet Live @ Boxley’s” is in production and available to pre-order…
Special Vocal Summit Saturday Night… stay tuned for date and details. Many of our favorite vocalists joining Karen Shivers onstage.
JAZZ ALLEY: Pearl Django with Special Guest Larry Coryell
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Smith/Staelens Big Band
THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio
BOXLEY’S: Danny Kolke Trio
LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: Eileen Neff
NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Band w/ Clarence Acox
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Ambience with Leah Natale (vocals), George Stone, Chris Busa and Burt Boice (bass)
9pm – Vocal Showcase featuring Emily McVicker, Rondi Marsh and David Arteaga – Hosted by Penelope Donado, with Darin Clendenin (piano), Clipper Anderson (bass) and Robert Rushing (drums)
Seattle jazz composer and saxophonist Steve Griggs won a Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in the 2010 Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition. The award winning composition set the poem “Moonlight” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for solo tenor voice and piano. Charles Kaufmann, Director of the Longfellow Chorus states, “Moonlight is a highly original Longfellow setting that matches our wish to present differing styles of composition. The choice of text and combination with this particular style of textural setting are unique.” The piece may be performed at the Longfellow Birthday Concert, February 27 and 28, in Portland, Maine.
Steve Griggs composed seven new works for his Bumbershoot 2009 performance, was featured as a soloist on the 2009 Bungie/Microsoft video game Halo 3: ODST, set poems of Seattle sculptor James Washington for gospel soloist, and is arranging the works of Heitor Villa-Lobos for jazz chamber ensemble.
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band
DEXTER AND HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio
TRIPLE DOOR: Bellevue College Big Band
MIX: Don Mock
SEAMONSTER LOUNGE: McTuff Trio
NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE: Chris Johansen Quartet, with Chris Johansen (tenor sax), John Hansen (piano), Chuck Kistler (bass) and Phil Parisot (drums)
JAZZ ALLEY: Pearl Django w/ Larry Coryell
MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita
from KBCS’ RadioActivity newsletter:
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings: Renegades, Delmark
Vijay Iyer: Historicity, Act Music + Vision
Charles Tolliver Big Band: Emperor March-Live at the Blue Note, Halfnote
Victor Noriega: Fenceless, Pony Boy
Matt Wilson: That’s Gonna Leave a Mark, Palmetto
Joe Lovano: Folk Art, Blue Note
Thomas Marriott: Flexicon, Origin
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Rise Up, Palmetto
Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen, Marsalis Music
Scott La Faro: Pieces of Jade, Resonance
