Seattle Jazz Scene

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Critical Mass Big Band
2214 Second Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Jaques Willis
6006 12th Ave South, 206-767-0280, 9:00pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Kashiwa CD Release Concert
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE: Carolyn Graye Student Showcase
1707 NW Market Street, 206-789-1621, 7:00pm

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez
808 Post Ave, 206-621-7777, 10:00pm

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

SEAMONSTER LOUNGE: McTuff Trio
2202 N 45th St, 206-633-1824, 10:00pm

COPPER GATE: Suffering F#ckheads
6301 24th Ave NW, 206-706-3292, 8:00pm

BAKE’S PLACE: Charles Mack Band featuring Josephine Howell
155 108th Ave NE, Bellevue, (425) 454-2776, 8:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Aaron Tevis Project
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Bob Baumann Duo
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

PARATII: Paratii session w/ Jeff Busch
5463 Leary Ave NW, 206-420-7406, 9:00pm

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Primo Kim
555 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, 425-455-2734, 6:00pm

WHITE RABBIT: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder
513 N 36th St Suite E, Seattle, 9:30pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Microsoft Jumping Jive Orchestra
2214 Second Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

STILL LIQUOR: O’Brien & Kessler Trio w/ Nate Parker
1524 Minor Ave, Seattle, 9:00pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Eliane Elias
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Cheryl Jewel with Darin Clendenin
11425 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, 206-772-6891

SCOTCH AND VINE: Brian Lee & the Orbiters
22341 Marine View Dr S, Des Moines, 7:00pm

VITO’S: 6pm: Ruby Bishop; 9pm: Special Halloween Party and ER Costume Crawl featuring The Tim Kennedy Trio and Special Guests
927 9th Ave, Seattle

GRAZIE: Diana Page Trio
23207 Bothell-Everett Hwy, Bothell, 425-402-9600, 7:00pm

ROYAL ROOM: Halloween Party!
5000 Rainier Ave South, Seattle, 9:00pm

Pianist Sumi Tonooka was born in Philadelphia and has spent most of her career playing, touring and recording while based on the East Coast.  On this week’s Jazz Northwest, she talks with Jim Wilke about her development as a musician and how and why she recently moved to Seattle.  She’ll also be heard playing several pieces from a New York concert.  She’ll play a solo concert in Seattle on Monday October 29 at The Chapel as part of this year’s Earshot Festival.

Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke exclusively for 88.5 KPLU and beginning this week is heard at A NEW TIME:   2 PM on Sunday afternoons.   The program is also available at kplu.org as a podcast following the airdate.

NEW ORLEANS: Flexicon with Thomas Marriott
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 8:00pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Eliane Elias
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Dan O’Brien & Eric Reid: Brazilian Jazz
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

HIROSHI’S: Jazz and Sushi
2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio
6423 Latona Avenue NE, 5:00 – 7:00pm, No Cover, 21+

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Swiss Girl Martine
11425 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, (206) 772-6891

VITO’S: Lushy
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 206-682-2695, 9:00pm

ROYAL ROOM: Table & Chairs showcase w/ Hardcoretet, Operation ID
5000 Rainier Ave South, Seattle, 8:00pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Chad McCullough / Steve Treseler Quintet
2214 Second Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Bill Charlap Trio
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

NEW ORLEANS: The Legacy Band with Clarence Acox
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Future Jazz Heads
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

VITO’S: The Wally Shoup Trio
927 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, 206-397-4053, 9:00pm

418 PUBLIC HOUSE: 418 session w/ Claudio Rochat-Felix
418 NW 65th St, 9:00pm

(Seattle-Tacoma, WA) Beginning October 28, 2012, 88.5 KPLU’s Sunday program schedule will change between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

KPLU’s Assistant General Manager/Director of Content Joey Cohn said the station is discontinuing broadcasts of Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland from 2 to 3 p.m.  The 94 year-old McPartland hasn’t recorded a new show for over two years, and KPLU has been airing reruns.  “It was not an easy decision (to drop the show) as Marian McPartland has been on KPLU for 32 years,” Cohn said.  Listeners who still want to listen to Piano Jazz can subscribe to the podcast.

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KPLU is augmenting Sunday morning’s news programming by expanding its broadcast of the popular news magazine Weekend Edition Sunday by one hour, then repeating the NPR news quiz Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, an audience favorite, at 10 a.m. Jazz Sunday Side Up, which provides the perfect accompaniment to a relaxed Sunday morning – currently heard from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – moves to 11 a.m. and becomes a three-hour show.  Jazz Northwest, KPLU’s long-running show surveying the local jazz scene and hosted by Jim Wilke, continues to follow Jazz Sunday Side Up and moves to 2 p.m.

The new Sunday lineup is as follows:
5-10 a.m. Weekend Edition Sunday with Rachel Martin and Gary Crawford
10-11 a.m.: Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! with Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell
11 a.m.-2 p.m.: Jazz Sunday Side Up with Ruby Brown
2-3 p.m.: Jazz Northwest with Jim Wilke

The 3 p.m.-midnight hours remain the same, with Ken Wiley’s The Art of Jazz from 3-6 p.m. and All Blues with John Kessler from 6 p.m.–midnight.

Listeners with questions and/or comments can contact KPLU at [email protected] or 800-NPR-KPLU.

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

PARATII: Paratii session w/ Jeff Busch
5463 Leary Ave NW, 206-420-7406, 9:00pm

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Primo Kim
555 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, 425-455-2734, 6:00pm

WHITE RABBIT: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder
513 N 36th St Suite E, Seattle, 9:30pm

STILL LIQUOR: O’Brien & Kessler Trio w/ Nate Parker
1524 Minor Ave, Seattle, 9:00pm

This Sunday is the annual Eastside Jazz Club Extravaganza starting at 2:00pm at the Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Bellevue.

This year’s event features jazz vocalist Kathy Kosins. LAJazz.com says, “One thing I’ve always enjoyed about Kathy is her ability to sell the song. Kathy is a melodic storyteller. Her voice is rich and warm as she interprets and vocally explores each song.”

Joining Kathy will be Bill Anschell on the Steinway (thanks to Sherman Clay), Jeff Johnson on bass, and John Bishop on drums.

Opening the concert will be Susan Pascal’s Soul Sauce, Latin jazz tribute to Cal Tjader featuring Susan on vibes, Fred Hoadley on piano, Chuck Deardorf on bass, Mark Ivester on drums, and Tom Bergersen on percussion.

There also will be pre and post Jazz in the foyer with the Jose Gonzales Trio.

Tickets are only $20 ($18 if you call Cooksie Kramar at 425-828-9104) For more information, visit the Eastside Jazz Club website or order tickets from Brown Paper Tickets
1 800 838 3006 www.brownpapertickets.com.

Meschiya Lake sings with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra . Photo by Jim Wilke

The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, co-directed by Clarence Acox and Michael Brockman is featured Sunday, October 21 on Jazz Northwest at 1 PM PDT on 88.5 KPLU. The program highlights a concert of Jazz of the Harlem Renaissance with guests Meschiya Lake, a New Orleans-based singer of traditional jazz,  and narrator Robin Lloyd of KPLU, who describes scenes at the Apollo Ballroom where this music was first heard in the Twenties and Thirties. The concert was recorded at Kirkland Performance Center on June 17, 2012 utilizing a combination of vintage and modern microphone technique in an attempt to reproduce the acoustic sound of the bands who played the Apollo in Harlem.

The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra’s 2012-2013 season begins November 3 and 4 with Branford Marsalis featured in “The Music of New Orleans” including both traditional and modern music of the Crescent City.

Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke, exclusively for 88.5 KPLU and is heard Sunday afternoons on 88.5 KPLU.  The program is also available as a podcast following the airdate.  Beginning next week, October 28, the program will move one hour later to 2 PM on Sundays.  Next week’s guest will be pianist Sumi Tonooka, who will play an Earshot Festival solo concert the following night.

by Daniel Sheehan, EyeShotJazz.com

Comfortable seats, a great view and a wonderful sound of two great trios starting with Cuong Vu’s Triggerfish. The 2012 Earshot Jazz Festival continues until Nov 4th.

NEW ORLEANS: Flexicon
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 8:00pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Candido 91st B’day Bash feat. Larry Harlow, Pete Escovedo, Frankie Figueroa & more!
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30 & 10:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Milo Peterson Trio
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

HIROSHI’S: Jazz and Sushi
2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio
6423 Latona Avenue NE, 5:00 – 7:00pm, No Cover, 21+

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Jennifer Kienzle w/ Tim Kennedy
11425 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, (206) 772-6891

VITO’S: Rat City Brass
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 206-682-2695, 9:00pm

NORTH CITY BISTRO: David George Quartet
1520 NE 177th, Shoreline, (206) 365-4447, 7:00pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Candido 91st B’day Bash feat. Larry Harlow, Pete Escovedo, Frankie Figueroa & more!
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Fred Hoadley’s Sonando
2214 Second Avenue, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Jazz Jam
11425 Rainier Ave S, 206-772-6891, 6:00pm

COPPER GATE: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton
6301 24th Ave NW, 206-706-3292, 8:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Young Lizards
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

BARCA: Phil Sparks / Adam Kessler Trio
1510 11th Avenue, Seattle, (206) 325-8263, 9:00pm

VITO’S: Rik Wright
927 9th Ave, Seattle, 206-682-2695

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart
9pm – Tina Richerson Group
1707 NW Market Street, Seattle, 206-789-1621

In advance of tonight’s Vijay Iyer’s show at the Earshot Jazz Festival, The Seattle Weekly ran a story entitled Vijay Iyer and the Outreachification of Jazz.

It attempts to ask the universal jazz question, why is jazz not as popular as rock music? A question that is asked every year by a different music writer.

From The Seattle Weekly:

Vijay Iyer and his March release, Accelerando, brought home a record five awards in Downbeat‘s annual critics’ poll, which earned him a spot on the magazine’s cover. Among people who follow jazz, the New York-based piano player is huge right now. To everyone else–and considering that according to Soundscan, Accelerando has sold a mere 5,000 copies, we’re talking about most people–he’s a complete unknown. So are his peers. Five million jazz records have sold so far this year, compared to 80 million in rock. It’s not a stretch to say jazz devotees are on the fringe.

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Accelerando, like many jazz records made today, is jazz for people who already like jazz. Exposing audiences and young people to a variety of music is a noble endeavor, but there is something condescending, institutional, and even self-righteous about the outreachifaction of jazz. If a school has a music program, it’s as disproportionately likely to offer jazz over rock as a person in the U.S. is to buy a rock record over a jazz album.

The Seattle Weekly piece quickly brought a rebuttal from The Chicago Reader and their piece entitled, The “problem” with jazz, part 343: Chris Kornelis at the Seattle Weekly

There’s a lot of uninformed shit written about jazz these days, but a piece nominally about pianist Vijay Iyer published today by Seattle Weekly music blog Reverb might win the 2012 prize for idiocy (you might have seen it already—it was linked in this morning’s “Did you read?” post). Few topics bore me more than “growing the audience” for jazz, as if listeners were some kind of produce: Sometimes marketing is alleged to be to blame, while on other days I’ve heard that jazz players lack good fashion sense. Sometimes it’s the fault of musicians who don’t properly contextualize or explain what they’re doing (or of musicians who explain too much). Sometimes it’s agents who book artists in overpriced, formal venues that keep away young potential fans.

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And then Kornelis offers another condescending opinion: “The irony, of course, is that jazz lacks broad appreciation outside academia because of artists like Iyer and albums like Accelerando.” Kornelis seems to insist on looking at jazz through the lens of the pop marketplace—as if a chef at a tiny bistro is at fault because his truffle fries don’t sell as much as fries from McDonald’s. But more problematic is that Kornelis views all these problems as if they exist in some kind of vacuum—discounting the role that media, record companies, capitalism, the economy, education, and a host of other factors play in shaping tastes. No, it’s all Iyer’s fault for making music that aspires to be something more than mass-produced pop. He quotes Branford Marsalis, who has criticized the jazz biz for not being more aware of and sympathetic to what allegedly normal people would like to hear—never mind that Marsalis ain’t exactly burning up the charts himself.

Take a look for yourself and add your opinion to the discussion.

JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Kashiwa CD Release Concert
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

NEW ORLEANS: The Legacy Band with Clarence Acox
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

BOXLEY’S: Future Jazz Heads
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA, 425-292-9307, 7:00pm

ROYAL ROOM: Robbie Fulks with Robbie Gjersoe
5000 Rainier Ave South, Seattle, 8:00pm

VITO’S: Jason Parker Quartet
927 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, 206-397-4053, 9:00pm

418 PUBLIC HOUSE: 418 session w/ Claudio Rochat-Felix
418 NW 65th St, 9:00pm