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Saturday Jazz

April 3, 2010 / Chadmcc / No Comments

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Preservation Hall Jazz Band

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Ranger and the Re-Arrangers
9pm – Max Graydon Group, w/Steve Nelson (guitar), Nate Parker (bass) and Max Graydon (drums)
11pm – Richard Allen and the Louisiana Experience

BAKE’S PLACE: Little Bill Engelhart & Patti Allen

BOXLEY’S: Kelley Eisenhour Quartet

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

GRAZIE: Andre Thomas and Quiet Fire

SERAFINA: Leo Raymundo w/Sue Nixon

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: Tim Kennedy

Review: Ryan Burns, Birds

April 2, 2010 / aajseattle / No Comments

from All About Jazz.com

Keyboardist Ryan Burns possesses a distinctive artistry, one that is integral to the success of the sound of the Matt Jorgensen + 451 group on sets such as Hope (Origin Records, 2004) and Another Morning (Origin Records, 2008), and with trumpeter Thomas Marriott on the strange and stellar Crazy:The Music of Willie Nelson (Origin Records, 2008). Burns also works as a leader on the acoustic piano trio set Tree-O (Old Bird Records, 2007), and now on the plugged-in Birds. A fine pianist, Burns is virtuosic and always adventurous on the electric side of the keyboard spectrum.

Birds opens with the title tune that he introduced on the Hope CD. The sound glows into existence on luminescent electric keys at a measured pace. The dry, tart sound of Mark Taylor’s alto saxophone seeps in, counterpointing the Fender Rhodes gleam with Burns’ stick-in-the-mind melody. “June Bug” has an eerie, exploration-of-another-planet vibe, with bassist Geoff Cooke and drummer Joe Martinez supplying an altered gravity rhythm behind the leader’s otherworldly safari.

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