The presence of jazz at Bumbershoot has been a continuing trend and this year is no exception. The advantage this year is ticket prices have dropped if you don’t want to see the mainstage shows. So if you just want to head down for the jazz shows tickets are $22 (If you want to see the headlining concerts you’ll have to shell out $40/day).
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 – SEATTLE JAZZ SHOWCASE AT NW COURT STAGE
(previews from The Seattle Weekly)
1:15 – 2:15: Greta Matassa Quartet
It’s easy to take her for granted because she seems ever-present, but Matassa is a winsome singer of jazz standards, with a fantastic clarity of tone, who’s always worth another hearing. She kicks off a three-act Seattle Jazz Showcase (which constitutes the sum of B-shoot’s ever-scanter jazz booking).
3:00 – 4:00: McTuff Trio
Journeyman keyboardist Joe Doria is heard in lots of projects, but he does some of his best work in this ’60s-style organ unit. Even without McTuff’s invaluable fourth, Skerik, on sax, they keep the soul-jazz cooking, and it’s a tasty dish.
4:45 – 5:45: Matt Jorgensen Quintet
He’s a head honcho at the highly successful Origin Records and helps produce the Ballard Jazz Festival, so it’s perhaps no surprise that in his own bands Matt Jorgensen is the kind of drummer who makes things happen without putting himself out front. His newest quintet, with longtime partners Thomas Marriott and Mark Taylor, takes a more abstract, cinematic turn, which is not a coincidence: The quintet’s brand new Origin recording, Tattooed by Passion, offers music inspired by Jorgensen’s late father-in-law, Colorado painter Dale Chisman. If you only have ear space for one instrumental show at the ‘Shoot, this little-known band is the one to make room for.