Photos: Ziggurat Quartet at SAM
from EyeShotJazz.com – photos by Daniel Sheehan:
The ZIGGURAT QUARTET performed at the Seattle Art Museum for the Earshot Jazz Series ” Art of Jazz” series. A good turnout heard the band’s expression of “rhythmic experimentation which drives the ensemble’s complex original compositions. Many of the pieces were deeply influenced by the rhythms of East Indian music, as well as jazz and contemporary chamber music.” Here are some photographs from the performance.
(featuring Eric Barber on saxophone, Bill Anschell on piano, Chris Symer on bass and Byron Vannoy on drums)
Katy Bourne’s route to jazz has been peripatetic to say the least. Back in the 1980s, when her focus was fully on acting and writing, she bounced from Oklahoma to Iowa to New Mexico to the Northeast. In 1992 she took an extended break, re-emerging a few years later as lead singer for two Seattle-based blues bands. Soon afterward she discovered teacher Greta Matassa and concurrently unleashed her inner jazz stylist.
