Seattle Jazz Scene

from EyeShotJazz:

from EyeShot Jazz:

Photos by Jim Levitt

Human Spirit (Thomas Marriott – trumpet, Mark Taylor – saxophone, Orrin Evans – piano, Essiet Essiet – bass and Matt Jorgensen – drums) recording at Tula’s Jazz Club during the second night of their two-night sold-out run at the Earshot Jazz Festival.

From EyeShot Jazz (a great photo blog you should check out, especially since the Earshot Festival starts this weekend and there will be updates almost daily!)

Trio Commando made their public debut at the chapel Performance Space opening up for Eric Barber, performing improvisations, excavations and conversations through a high powered trio configuration featuring Wayne Horvitz (piano), Samantha Boshnack(trumpets), and Beth Fleenor (clarinets/voice). Unexpected and brilliant set of music with exciting electronic and vocal intermixing.

Saxophonist Eric Barber, an innovative saxophonist and composer in the world of jazz, world, and improvised music gave a solo performance last night at the Chapel Performance Space. I was entranced by the sounds he blew and recorded in his black box and then played on top of again and again and twice he played pieces with recorded human voices including his young daughter’s. Beautiful.

from Eye Shot Jazz

Wayne Horvitz Band featuring Skerik, Joe Doria & D’Vonne Lewis performed on a beautiful August afternoon in the Bill and Melinda Gates amphitheater at the Seattle Art Museum Sculpture Park. Earshot Jazz, which put on the concert as part of its concert series “Art of Jazz“, describes the sound of the group as “ New York Attitude from Seattle Jazz-Funk Masters”.

photos by Jim Levitt

Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and pianist Dawn Clement at Tula’s Jazz Club, with Geoff Harper on bass and Jon Wikan on drums.

Photos by Jim Levitt

“The Gerald Clayton Trio with guest Joel Frahm”
Pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Joe Sanders, and drummer Quincy Davis, plus tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm

Photos by Jim Levitt

from Daniel Sheehan’s wonderful photo blog at eyeshotjazz.com.

Photos by Jim Levitt

Photos by Jim Levitt

Eden Bareket – bari sax; Chad McCullough – trumpet; Paul Gabrielson – bass; Matt Jorgensen – drums

by Jim Levitt

Trumpeter Riley Mulherkar and trombonist Andy Clausen, back home after their first year at the Juilliard School in New York, perform as a duo at Egan’s. Some standards (“the first time I’ve done that as a leader”, said Andy) and some free (“the first time Riley’s done that”) made for an interesting and unusual set. Saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo sat in for one particularly energetic piece.

Photos by Jim Levitt

Charles Lloyd on sax, Zakir Hussain on tabla, Jason Moran on piano, and Eric Harland on drums.

from EyeShotJazz.com:

Ask The Ages played a great set opening up for Gutbucket. They are Brian Heaney, guitar, Greg Campbell, drums, John Seman, bass, and Steven Bell, vibraphone. Here are some pictures from the evening.

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)

from EyeShotJazz.com

photos by Chad McCullough

John Stowell

Clark Sommers

Don Mock

Jaques Willis

Don Mock Trio

Dan Balmer