What’s Happening New Year’s Eve
Reservations recommended for all venues with New Year’s Packages!
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: New Year’s Eve Party with Stephanie Porter
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 8:30pm, $35
JAZZ ALLEY: Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band
**New Year’s packages include music and food. Prices range from $52-$155/person
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 8:45 & 11:00pm
BOXLEY’S: Kelly Eisenhour Quartet
**New Year’s package includes champagne, dessert and party favors, $15/person
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm and 9pm
BAKE’S PLACE: Little Bill and the Bluenotes
**New Years package includes music, hors d’oeuvres, party favors, champagne
toast, $95/person
4135 Providence Point Dr. SE Issaquah, 425-391-3335, 8:00pm-midnight
TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: New Year’s Eve Blowout with the Dusty 45’s
**New Year’s packages range from $70-$100/person
TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Theoretics
216 Union Street, Seattle, 206-838-4333, 9:00pm, no cover
SERAFINA: John Sanders Quartet w/ Sue Nixon
2043 Eastlake Ave E, 206-323-0807, 9pm
HIROSHI’S: Carolyn Graye Trio
2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966, note earlier time: 7-9:00pm,
LAKESIDE BISTRO: Tony Mamon and Patricia Johnston
11425 Rainier Ave S, (206) 772-6891, 7pm
AMORE: Lonnie Williams
2301 5th Ave, (206) 770-0606, 9pm
LE PICHET: Jim Knodle & The Distract Band
1933 1st Avenue Seattle, 9:30pm
SEAMONSTER LOUNGE: PK and What Army
2202 N 45th St., 206-992-1120, 10pm
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE and LUCID:
Seattle Musicians Foundation Kick-Off Party
The evening starts with the 7pm dinner show at EGAN’S, followed by three more bands and complimentary champagne toast at midnight at LUCID. Great music at both venues throughout the evening w/complimentary champagne toast, drink specials. Come enjoy a taste of straight ahead, funk, blues, Caribbean, Afro Rhythm and more. No cover, but donations and memberships will be accepted. Consider becoming a member of the Seattle Musicians Foundation!
EGAN’S: Michael Hepburn Group,
1707 NW Market St, 789-1621, 7-10pm, no cover, all ages
LUCID: EnRoot / Ayron Jones & The Way / Davy Nefos, Tony Paustian, Dan Taylor
5241 University Ave NE, Seattle, 402-3042, 9pm, no cover
Billy Taylor, a pianist and composer who was also an eloquent spokesman and advocate for jazz as well as a familiar presence for many years on television and radio, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 89 and lived in the Riverdale area of the Bronx.
KWJZ 98.9fm, Seattle’s smooth jazz station for the past 17 years, abruptly changed format yesterday becoming Click 98.9, another station that plays Adult-Contemporary/Classic Alternative music (think Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers).
The holiday concert of “Sacred Music by Duke Ellington,” will be presented at 7:30pm on Sunday, December 26th, 2010 at Town Hall Seattle (1119 Eighth Avenue, Seattle). This very special event, now celebrating its 22nd anniversary, features the all-star Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra with guest vocalists Everett Greene and Nichol Venee Eskridge, the 30-voice Northwest Chamber Chorus, and tap dancer Alex Dugdale.
Tuesday, December 28
Trumpeter Thomas Marriott keeps growing as an artist. He has released CDs at a healthy pace since 2005: an introduction for many perhaps unwary jazz fans to some warped country western flavor on Crazy: The Music of Willie Nelson (Origin Records, 2008); cranking an all-star quintet up in a modern mainstream mode on Flexicon (Origin Records, 2009); and letting it rip on a two-trumpet blow fest with fellow brass man Ray Vega on East-West Trumpet Summit (Origin Records, 2010). Constraints and Liberations ups his output to two releases in 2010.