Thursday Jazz
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: NATHAN EKLUND GROUP w/Mark Taylor, Dawn Clement, Chris Symer, Byron Vannoy
CD RELEASE FOR ‘Coin Flip’
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: Pearl Django
Entering their sixteenth year of performing Pearl Django continues to be one of America’s most respected and busiest Hot Club style groups. Though still strongly influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt, Pearl Django’s repertoire now includes many original compositions. Their music reaches out across the divides of taste to a wide variety of audiences. Transcending simple categorization, Pearl Django packs in enthusiastic audiences at dancehalls and nightclubs, at folk music festivals and jazz festivals alike. This performance continues Earshot’s Art of Jazz series at the Seattle Art Museum Downtown. The concert is free with museum admission and the performance begins at 5:30pm.
JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell
THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson and Tad Britton
SEAMONSTER LOUNGE: Ron Weinstein, Thomas Marriott and Matt Jorgensen
NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Alika Lyman Group, with Alika Lyman (guitar), Matthew Mcclosky (piano), Jonathan Small (bass) and Maxx Arnold (drums)
9pm – Laura Rebelloso and the Chris Stover Trio, featuring Chris Stover (trombone), Ben Thomas (vibes) and Alex Chadsey (piano)
BOXLEY’S: Zachary Kellogg CD Release
BARCA: Clark Gibson Trio
LUCID: The Hang w/ The Teaching
Drummers! For the second year in a row, we are very excited to be hosting a Dream Cymbal Tasting here at Donn Bennett Drum Studio in Bellevue.
This is a marathon album, despite running for only 45 minutes; a dense, fast meteorite on an edgy sky, brief enough to be indulged in all its frowning intensity. Throughout, Speak build huge constructs of volumes and dynamics. The music never sits still; it’s a snake that twists and turns in the juxtaposition of noise and quietness, light and darkness. Yet the band is tremendously cohesive, shifting as one from heavy improvisational territories down to eloquent writing with a message of unresolved tension. There isn’t a recognisable soloist; the structure is always at the core, with each musician skilfully contributing to the edifice. Indefatigable, Luke Bergman on bass and Chris Icasiano on drums are as much centre stage as Vu’s reverb-laden trumpet or Andrew Swanson’s muscular saxophone.
Fred Anderson, a tenor saxophonist who tied the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker to the explorations of later avant-garde musicians and who owned the Velvet Lounge, a South Side Chicago club known for fostering the careers of emerging players, died on Thursday. He was 81.
The Count Basie Orchestra is announcing that trombonist Benny Powell has died at age 80. Powell is best known for his role in the Basie band of the 1950s and early ’60s — he took a brief solo on the hit recording of “April In Paris” — but he also held spots in the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and many, many other top ensembles. He was busy as a recording studio, Broadway and television musician, and also worked with high modernist jazzmen like pianist Randy Weston and clarinetist John Carter.