Searching through some of the Seattle Jazz Scene archives, here are some links to previous posts with photos:
Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb
Hadley Caliman and Curtis Fuller
Hadley Caliman Quintet at Jazz Alley
Hadley Caliman at Nordic Heritage Museum
Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb at the Ballard Jazz Walk
from National Public Radio:
Remembering Saxophonists Hadley Caliman And Noah Howard
Two powerful saxophonists whose talents merited wider recognition, but who spent much of their lives away from jazz’s major hubs, have died.
News came yesterday from the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra that tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman had died at age 78, after a struggle with liver cancer. Caliman was a tenor player in the post-bop tradition; he recorded with jazzmen like Bobby Hutcherson and Freddie Hubbard, but also with genre-crossing musicians like Carlos Santana. He taught at Seattle’s Cornish College for over 20 years, and was a beloved elder statesman in the Seattle community.
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from The Oregonian:
Seattle saxophonist Hadley Caliman, a pillar of the Northwest jazz scene, dies at 78
For cities only a few hours’ drive apart, the cross talk between the jazz scenes of Portland and Seattle always has seemed quieter than it should be. Over the past couple of decades, nothing served as a potent reminder of that more than the occasional – yet all too rare – Portland appearances by Hadley Caliman, a superb saxophonist and a revered pillar of the Northwest jazz community … Caliman’s Portland performances mostly were special occasions – the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival in 2003 and 2004, the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival in 1992 and ’93. He was favored especially by drummer/bandleaders Ron Steen, who got him to play events such as an Oregon Public Broadcasting taping for the mid-’90s show “Coffee Tea and OPB,” and Akbar DePriest, who featured him on the 1997 album “Live on the Willamette.”
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Earshot Jazz has posted a memorial on their website:
In 2008, Caliman received two Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards when his quartet and quintet won the Acoustic Jazz Ensemble of the Year award, and his performance at the 2008 Ballard Jazz Festival won the Concert of the Year award.
In a 2004 interview with Earshot, Caliman’s wife Linda said it best: “He is the sweetest person…In all that he has been through in all of his life, he is untainted. It’s a spirit. The spirit has remained intact. He’s not been jaded or been cynical by all that he has seen.” At last year’s Earshot Jazz Festival, Caliman’s career was celebrated in a special concert at the Seattle Art Museum in which he also performed.
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SCULPTURE PARK: Art of Jazz: Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
Olympic Sculpture Park, 2901 Western Ave, 6:00pm, Free
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: The Kora Band (CD Release Party)
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm
JAZZ ALLEY: Dr John & Lower 911
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm
BARCA: Adam Kessler Trio
1510 11th Avenue, Seattle, (206) 325-8263, 9:00pm
MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Jerry Zimmerman
1413 14th Ave, 206-325-7000, 7:30pm
NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm
THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson, Tad Britton
5410 Ballard Ave NW, 8:30pm
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE: Ask the Ages (7:00pm); Elnah Jordan (9:00pm)
1707 NW Market St, 206-789-1621
LUCID: The Hang with The Teaching
5241 University Ave NE, 206-402-3042, 9:00pm
BOXLEY’S: Mordy Ferber
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm
UPDATE: We’ve opened up a second page for people to post memories and tributes to Hadley.
Tenor saxophonist and jazz legend Hadley Caliman passed away this morning after a two year struggle with liver cancer. He was 78 years old.
Caliman remained active on the jazz scene until late-August, performing regularly around the Northwest in support of his recent releases: Reunion with Pete Christilieb, which was released in August and is now #31 on the national jazz charts, and Straight Ahead, which is #9 for the year on the Airplay Charts and was in the Top 10 on American jazz radio for many months.
Always striving to further himself on the saxophone, Caliman continued to practice daily until a week ago when he was too weak to continue. His last public performances were in Poulsbo on August 20, Tula’s Jazz Club on August 13, and the release performance for Reunion with Pete Christlieb at The New Orleans Creole Restaurant on August 8.
Caliman’s long career included credits with musicians such as Freddie Hubbard, Gerald Wilson, Carlos Santana, Dexter Gordon, Elvin Jones, Mongo Santamaria, Joe Pass, The Grateful Dead, Joe Henderson, Don Ellis, Flora Purim, Phoebe Snow, Bobby Hutcherson and many others.
More information about a memorial will be posted soon.
Note: We are opening up the Commenting on the website so if you’d like to post your memories of Hadley we will pass them along to his family. Click here to post a comment (at the bottom of the page)
from allaboutjazz.com
Drummer Matt Jorgensen pushes a bit out of the relative comfort zone of his longstanding Matt Jorgensen + 451 ensemble, to pay homage to his late father-in-law, abstract expressionist painter Dale Chisman, with Tattooed by Passion. With his + 451 group, Jorgensen crafted a distinctive modern-leaning sound on CDs Hope (Origin Records, 2004) and Another Morning (Origin Records, 2008). He carries that tradition forward on Tattooed by Passion.
Tight grooves are a part of Jorgensen’s approach, which isn’t surprising for a drummer. But more importantly, for the group sound he creates, are his choices in the guys sitting in the chording instrument chairs; players who can roll into that disciplined groove if need be, or break out on a tangent to play with astounding abandon: keyboardist Ryan Burns on the + 451 sets, and guitarist Corey Christiansen on the disc in hand.
Opening with the groove-centric “Space, Plane and Line,” the group slips into some clean two-horn harmony, featuring + 451 alum, saxophonist Mark Taylor, and Jorgensen’s oft-times collaborator, trumpeter Thomas Marriott, in front of Christiansen’s crisp chording and the leader’s initially metronomic beat. Each horn solos, then Christiansen takes a turn with burning restraint—small, hot blue flames bursting into a crescendo blaze.
The title tune continues in the same mode. The group dynamic is the same—Marriott’s warm trumpet tone giving way to Taylor’s biting saxophone tang, then Christiansen’s burning incandescence driven forward by Dave Captein’s beefy bass and Jorgensen’s tight-yet-quirky percussion.
“Colorado” has a relaxed, wide-open-spaces atmosphere and a country twang reminiscent of the mood on Marriott’s strange but outstanding Crazy: the Music of Willie Nelson (Origin Records, 2008). Jorgensen experiments with much success here and on two more tunes, enlisting a string quartet to add a richness and subtle shine to the quintet’s sound.
The the more intense “Big Chief With a Golden Crown” charges down an arrow-straight highway at ninety miles-an-hour on a solid bass/drums drive train, leading to a brief dreamy interlude that wails with a hard rock energy into “Primal Scrip,” giving Christiansen a chance to rip with soaring freedom in front of a pounding, sludgy rhythm.
On the closer, “Savage Grace,” the strings return, along with clarinetist Richard Cole. The extra instrumentation adds a panoramic feeling to an initially pensive tune that bursts outward with Marriott’s brassy solo. An ambitious and beautiful ending to Matt Jorgensen’s finest recording to date.
NOTE: Matt Jorgensen will be performing Tattooed by Passion (with strings) at The Triple Door on Tuesday, October 26, as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival
Tula’s Jazz Club: Bert Gulhaugen / John Hansen Showcase
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm
Jazz Alley: Dr. John and The Lower 911
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm
Martin’s On Madison: Bonnie Birch
1413 14th Ave, 206-325-7000, 7:30pm
New Orleans: The Legacy Band with Clarence Acox
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm
Thaiku: Ron Weinstein Trio
5410 Ballard Ave NW, 8:30pm
Egan’s Ballard Jam House:
1707 NW Market St, 206-789-1621
7pm – Vocal Jam, hosted by Susan Robinson
9pm – Vocal Showcase, featuring Jose Gonzales, Oghale Agbro and Marti MacEwan – hosted by Susan Robinson
Boxley’s: Dan Kramlich
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm
DULCES LATIN BISTRO: Eric Verlinde
1430 34th Ave, 206-322-5453, 6:30pm
JAZZ ALLEY: Dr John & Lower 911
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm
MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita
1413 14th Ave, 206-325-7000, 7:30pm
MIX: Don Mock & Steve Kim
6006 12th Ave South, 206-767-0280, 9:00pm
NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm
OWL ‘N THISTLE: Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez
808 Post Ave, 206-621-7777, 10:00pm
BOXLEY’S: Courtney Cutchins
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm
SEAMONSTER LOUNGE: McTuff Trio
2202 N 45th St, 206-633-1824, 10:00pm
JAZZ ALLEY: Stanley Jordan Trio with Phil Sparks and Matt Jorgensen
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729
TULAS JAZZ CLUB:
3pm – Randy Burgeson Quintet
8pm – Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221
BOXLEY’S: Danny Kolke Trio
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307
BAKE’S PLACE: Sunday Breakfast w/ Michael Gotz
4135 Providence Point Dr. SE Issaquah, (425) 391-3335
CAFE RACER: Racer Sessions
5828 Roosevelt Way NE, 8pm
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.
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Quartet
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm
JAZZ ALLEY: Stanley Jordan Trio with Phil Sparks and Matt Jorgensen
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
Closed for the holiday weekend
TRIPLE DOOR MAIN STAGE: Jessica Williams
216 Union Street, 9:00pm
BOXLEY’S: Jannette West Quartet
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm
BAKE’S PLACE: Amandah Jantzen Quartet
4135 Providence Point Dr. SE Issaquah, (425) 391-3335, 7:30pm
LUCID: The Rumptones
5241 University Ave NE, Seattle, (206) 402-3042, 9:00pm
ST. CLOUD’S: Jose Gonzales Trio
1131 34th Ave, 9:00pm
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Stephanie Porter Quartet
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm
JAZZ ALLEY: Stanley Jordan Trio with Phil Sparks and Matt Jorgensen
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm
NEW ORLEANS: Mark Taylor Quartet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 8:00pm
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Cameron Vohr Quintet
9pm – The Farko Collective
TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Tor Dietrichson
216 Union Street, 9:00pm
AMORE: Lonnie Williams
2301 5th Ave, (206) 770-0606
BOXLEY’S: Ken French and Larry Halloway
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm
BAKE’S PLACE: Greta Matassa and Katherine Stuber
4135 Providence Point Dr. SE Issaquah, (425) 391-3335, 7:30pm
THE CHAPEL: Seattle Composers’ Salon
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N
LUCID: Brendan O’Donnell & Eric Verlinde
5241 University Ave NE, Seattle, (206) 402-3042, 9:00pm
HIROSHI’S: Jazz & Sushi
2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966
LAKESIDE BISTRO: Paul Richardson
11425 Rainier Ave S, 7:00pm
JAZZ ALLEY: Stanley Jordan Trio with Phil Sparks and Matt Jorgensen
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm
BARCA: Mark Taylor, Chuck Deardorf & John Bishop
1510 11th Avenue, Seattle, (206) 325-8263, 9:00pm
THE CHAPEL: Wyndel Hunt benefit w/ Climax Golden Twins, Bill Horist, Vance Galloway
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 8:00pm
MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Jerry Zimmerman
1413 14th Ave, 206-325-7000, 7:30pm
NEW ORLEANS: Bob Jackson Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm
THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson, Tad Britton
5410 Ballard Ave NW, 8:30pm
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Nelda Swiggett Trio
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE: Manghis Khan Sextet
1707 NW Market St, 206-789-1621, 9:00pm
LUCID: The Hang with The Teaching
5241 University Ave NE, 206-402-3042, 9:00pm
BOXLEY’S: Jon Hamar and Tony Foster
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm
Hear The Kora Band for free at Seattle’s City Hall Plaza on Fourth Avenue on Sept. 2.
From The Seattle Times:
Like a good cup of coffee, The Kora Band is a rich blend, combining traditional West African music with American jazz. Hear the quintet for free at noon Thursday at City Hall plaza, 600 Fourth Ave., Seattle. If it rains, the band will play in the lobby. The group’s Gambian namesake instrument, the kora, a harp guitar, is played by Seattleite Kane Mathis