Seattle Jazz Scene

photos by Jim Levitt

Thomas Marriott – trumpet; Mark Taylor – saxophone; John McLean – guitar; Devin Lowe – bass; Matt Jorgensen – drums

JAZZ ALLEY: Charlie Hunter w/ Eric Kalb, Alan Ferber, Thomas Marriott & Chris Stover

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Smith/Staelens Big Band

BOXLEY’S: Jay Thomas Trio

MEANEY THEATER: UW Music: Studio Jazz Ensemble

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Deluge, with Garfield High jazz musicians Riley Mulherkar (trumpet), Charlie Phillips (saxophones), James Squires (drums), Julian Garvue (piano), and Carmen Rothwell (bass)
9pm – Vocal Jam hosted by Fathia Atallah, with Beth Wulff (piano), Clipper Anderson (bass) and Ed Littlefield (drums)

NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Band w/ Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

TRACTOR TAVERN: Garage a Trois
(also performing at Easy Street Records [20 Mercer St.] at 6:00pm)

SHERMAN CLAY PIANO (Bellevue): Susan Pascal Quartet

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

MIX: Don Mock

JAZZ ALLEY: Charlie Hunter w/ Eric Kalb, Alan Ferber, Thomas Marriott & Chris Stover

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

DEXTER & HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

SEATTLE DRUM SCHOOL: Jim Knapp Orchestra

MEANEY THEATER: UW Percussion Ensemble

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Vocal Jam

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

from Donn Bennett’s Drum Studio:

STANTON MOORE MASTER CLASS
There are a few spaces left for Stanton Moore’s master class this Monday, 12/07 at 7:00 PM. Stanton is one of today’s most influential drummers. Ronn Dunnett from the DUNNETT Drum Company will be at the class with his new Stanton Moore Signature snare drum. Ronn is a great guy and makes some of the most innovative and high quality drums ever made. Check it out. Reply or call Kris at 425-747-6145 to reserve your spot.

Los Angeles composer Tim Davies was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for the tune “Counting To Infinity” off his Origin Records release, Dialmentia. This is Origin Records seventh Grammy nomination.

Best Instrumental Composition
(A Composer’s Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) first released during the Eligibility Year. Singles or Tracks only.)

* Borat In Syracuse
Paquito D’Rivera, composer (Paquito D’Rivera Quintet)
Track from: Jazz-Clazz
[Timba Records]

* Counting To Infinity
Tim Davies, composer (Tim Davies Big Band)
Track from: Dialmentia
[Origin Records]

* Fluffy
Bob Florence, composer (Bob Florence Limited Edition)
Track from: Legendary
[MAMA Records]

* Ice-Nine
Steve Wiest, composer (University Of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band)
Track from: Lab 2009
[North Texas Jazz]

* Married Life (From Up)
Michael Giacchino, composer (Michael Giacchino)
Track from: Up — Soundtrack
[Walt Disney Records]

Other Jazz Grammy nominations:

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

* Urbanus
Stefon Harris & Blackout
[Concord Jazz]

* Sounding Point
Julian Lage
[Emarcy/Decca]

* At World’s Edge
Philippe Saisse
[E1 Music]

* Big Neighborhood
Mike Stern
[Heads Up International]

* 75
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate
[Heads Up International]

Best Jazz Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

* No Regrets
Randy Crawford (& Joe Sample)
[PRA Records]

* Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman
Kurt Elling
[Concord Jazz]

* So In Love
Roberta Gambarini
[Groovin’ High/Emarcy]

* Tide
Luciana Souza
[Verve]

* Desire
Tierney Sutton (Band)
[Telarc Jazz]
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from The Seattle Times:

… [Charlie Hunter] introduces his latest project on Tuesday when he opens a two-night run at Jazz Alley with a quintet featuring slyly funky drummer Eric Kalb and three horns. Kalb is featured on Hunter’s upcoming release, “Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid” (Spire Artist Media), but as the title suggests, recessionary times require Hunter to hire local players for his West Coast gigs.

“As long as you’ve got the killing drummer, you can take care of business,” says Hunter, 42, from his home in Brooklyn. “Eric and I do the lion’s share of playing. We could do all this music as a duo, but it’s the difference between an awesome line drawing and a painting. The horns add the color.”

For Jazz Alley, Hunter’s regular trombonist, Alan Ferber, has assembled a tough Seattle crew featuring trombonist Chris Stover, an expert in Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian forms, and the supremely versatile trumpeter Thomas Marriott, whose recent album “Flexicon” is likely to be named among the best releases of 2009.

Continue reading at The Seattle Times:

photos by Jim Levitt

Andrew Oliver Kora Band 8pm
Seattle African All-Stars 10pm

December 3rd, 8-11pm
Columbia City Theater
4916 Ranier Ave. South
Seattle, 21+, $10

Buy Tickets

from Earshot Jazz:
The Andrew Oliver Kora Band and Seattle African All-Stars will team up on December 3, 2009 to present a unique night of African music at the Columbia City Theater. The Andrew Oliver Kora Band, led by Portland-based pianist Andrew Oliver and featuring Seattle-based virtuoso Kane Mathis on the kora, a 21-string traditional harp from West Africa, will open the evening with their unique mix of jazz and West African music. As the Oregonian has noted, the band “blends the swing and intellect of American jazz with the divine poetry of West African music.” The Seattle African All-Stars, featuring five well-traveled and respected musicians from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia, will then take the stage with their high-energy dance music in a variety of styles from all over the continent. The evening promises a diversity of musical styles from two groups of talented musicians at the top of their game. The historic Columbia City Theater offers a warm, intimate atmosphere, conducive to both listening and dancing.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Kelley Johnson Showcase

NEW ORLEANS: Ray Skelbred/Bob Jackson Quintet

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson and Tad Britton

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Larry Murante and Halelupe
9pm – Randall O’Dowd with Darin Clendenin (piano)

COLUMBIA CITY THEATER: Andrew Oliver Kora Band & Seattle African All-Stars
4916 Rainier Ave, 8:00pm

LUCID: The Hang w/ Teaching

photo by Jim Levitt

Tenor saxophonists Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb first played together in LA in the 60s and have remained friends ever since. They reunited in Seattle last month to record a CD together for Origin Records and to play at The Ballard Jazz Walk. Highlights from their reunion (with Bill Anschell, Chuck Deardorf and John Bishop) will air Sunday, December 6 at 1 PM Pacific on Jazz Northwest from 88-5, KPLU. The program will also stream live to the internet at kplu.org.

Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke exclusively for KPLU and kplu.org. A podcast will be available at kplu.org after the airdate.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band and Edmonds/ Woodway Jazz Band

DEXTER & HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio

MR. SPOT’S CHAI HOUSE: Brown Cloud & Operation I.D.

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

MIX: Don Mock

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Extention Jazz Duo
9pm – OWCHARUK 5, with Jim Knodle (trumpet), Beth Fleenor (clarinet), Cody Rahn (drums), Nate Omdal (bass) and Mike Owcharuk (piano)

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Josh Deutsch Quintet
from Earshot Jazz: Before graduating from the New England Conservatory and moving to Queens, Josh Deutsch discovered his love of jazz trumpet within the Washington Middle School and Garfield High School music programs. Deutsch has since emerged as an accomplished educator and composer. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by artists from the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Ruth Marshall to the Oregon Jazz Ensemble, Ron Miles and Danilo Pérez. Deutsch has received commissions from the “From the Top” radio show, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Music Northwest. More recently, Deutsch has completed the “Ligeti Project,” a twelve movement cross-genre work for jazz septet, based loosely around Györgi Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata. At Tula’s on November 30th, 7:30 PM, Josh Deutsch will lead his exciting quintet of Steve Treseler (saxophones), Dawn Clement (piano), Evan Flory-Barnes (bass), and D’Vonne Lewis (drums).

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

from Josh Deutsch:

Greetings friends, family & colleagues,

Hope you had an excellent thanksgiving!
I’m writing to let you know about a show I’ll be playing this coming Monday (Nov. 30) at Tula’s. I’ll be playing with some of my favorite Seattle area musicians, so this promises to be a very fun show. We’ll be playing a mix of originals and pieces from the great jazz composers, including Billy Strayhorn, Bill Evans, Lennie Tristano, Kenny Wheeler & Dizzy Gillespie.

Josh Deutsch Quintet
Josh Deutsch – Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Steve Treseler – Saxophone
Dawn Clement – Piano
Evan Flory-Barnes – Bass
D’Vonne Lewis – Drums

Tula’s Restaurant & Night Club
2214 2nd Ave.
Call (206) 443 – 4221 for reservations
Music starts at 7:30 pm – $8 cover is good for the whole evening

from the Save KBCS blog:

To the supporters of SaveKBCS and the campaign to return KBCS to the
community radio station we knew and loved,

Join us Friday evening, November 27th, 5:30-7pm, outside Town Hall
Seattle for a demonstration against the radical program changes at
KBCS and the arbitrary dismissal of 15 longtime, volunteer music
programmers.

We will gather on the sidewalk in front of Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th
Ave at Seneca Street,
(http://www.townhallseattle.org/directionsAndParking.cfm) about 5:30pm
before the speech by Amy Goodman, founder and executive producer of
Democracy Now, scheduled for 7-9pm.

Bring a protest sign of your own choosing announcing your
displeasure/anger/indignation about the changes at KBCS. Or print out
one from http://www.Savekbcs.org – go to the “Downloads” tab.

SaveKBCS will provide information handouts for people to educate
themselves about the summer of 2009 coup d’etat at KBCS.

Isn’t it ironic that KBCS’s flagship public affairs program “Democracy
Now” advocates democracy as a form of government, but KBCS management
goes to great lengths to avoid the democratic process when making
widespread programming changes? Bring back the democracy to our
community!

Amy Goodman has appeared in Seattle many times over the years in
fundraising efforts for KBCS. Her show is also carried on KBCS. What
better place to demonstrate than in front of Seattle’s historic Town
Hall, a nonprofit organization with deep roots in Seattle’s civic
life. Town Hall is Seattle’s community culture center located in the
historic First Hill neighborhood on the edge of downtown. Town Hall
showcases the community’s cultural energy with diverse music, arts and
humanities, civic discourse, and world culture programming.

(Please note that this is NOT a protest against Amy Goodman, her
speaking event, or the”Democracy Now” show. It is a protest against
KBCS management’s decision to cut music programming, add syndicated
talk shows and dismiss 15 local volunteer programmers).

Democracy Now in our Community Radio Now!

Thank you!
from the Steering Committee of Save KBCS

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Hadley Caliman Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jump Ensemble, with Mark Filler (drums/percussion), Marty Hasegawa (electric bass) and Gregg Robinson (piano/keyboards) – CD Release!
9pm – Rich Pellegrin Quintet, with Neil Welch (tenor sax), Scott Morning (trumpet), Chris Icasiano (drums), and Evan Flory-Barnes (bass)
11pm – Doomsday Device, with Scott Morning (trumpet/theremin), Aaron Jenkins (tenor sax), Grant Schroff (drums), Nate Omdal (bass) and Rich Pellegrin (keys)

BAKE’S PLACE: Greta Matassa & Joshua Wolff

GRAZIE: Sue Bell Trio

LOMBARDI’S: Janette West

BOXLEY’S: Jay Roberts Trio

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

HIROSHI’S: Smoked Coho Quartet

SERAFINA: Fred Hoadley Trio

NORTH CITY BISTRO: Stephanie Porter & Friends

photos by Jim Levitt

Gail Pettis – vocals; Randy Halberstadt – piano; Michael Barnett – bass; Steve Korn – drums; performing at Bad Albert’s during The Ballard Jazz Walk

The legendary saxophonist Charles Lloyd brings his brilliant New Quartet, featuring pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland, to Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave (at Seneca), at 7:30pm, December 6th, 2009. The quartet unites three stellar representatives of jazz’s younger generation with the venerable artist Charles Lloyd, who’s distinctive tone is defined by technical brilliance informed by a lifetime of spiritual questing and creative collaborations with artists and musical philosophies from around the world.

Lloyd’s New Quartet is a relatively young but well-established group of musicians who are fully capable of sharing Lloyd’s pursuits. A leader in his own right, Jason Moran (piano) brings a mature second lead voice to the group. Reuben Rogers (bass) and Eric Harland (drums), one of the most exciting rhythm teams in jazz, form a shifting tonic that’s perfect for bringing the exotic structures in Lloyd’s compositions to life. The group’s recent ECM release, Rabo de Nube, recorded live at a 2007 concert in Switzerland, captures the New Quartet’s energy and sophistication.

Lloyd, who recently turned 70, has significantly refined the strong musical presence best exemplified in his Forest Flower release of 40 years ago. For Lloyd, art is a personal journey; the search for an internal truth comes out in the music. Summed up by Lloyd himself in an address on his Web site: “The pursuit and the music are one.”

Tickets are $10-$35 in advance through Brown Paper Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006. Discounts available for Earshot members, senior citizens and students. Tickets also available at the door on the day of show from Earshot Jazz. Call Earshot Jazz at 206-547-6763 for more information.

The event is sponsored by NAI, New Age Industries, a transportation industry consulting firm.

photos by Jim Levitt from The Ballard Jazz Walk

Tom Collier (vibes) and Dan Dean (bass) performing at Skarbos Furniture on Ballard Ave

Don Mock and Jay Roberts Guitar Duo performing at Sonic Boom Records

NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Valerie Joyce and Ben Black, with NYC-based jazz pianist Joshua Wolff
9pm – Vocal Showcase featuring Penelope Donado, Angie McKenzie and Lindsay Nichols. Accompanied by Randy Halberstadt (piano), Chuck Kistler (bass) and Jose Martinez (drums)

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Vocal Workshop

BOXLEY’S: Pony Stablemates & Guests

LUCID: LE Trio