Seattle Jazz Scene

from The Seattle Times:

More details emerged Sunday in the bizarre shooting death of renowned local sound engineer Tom Pfaeffle.

Pfaeffle, 49, who had worked with music groups that include Nirvana, The Black Crowes and Heart, owned and operated The Tank, a recording studio adjacent to his home in the woods of Black Diamond. He also worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Seattle, teaching audio production.

He is survived by a wife and four children.

Pfaeffle was killed Friday at the Blue Spruce Motel in Twisp. Twisp Police Chief Rick Balam said Pfaeffle and his wife were in town to attend a birthday party when it appeared the couple inadvertently returned to the wrong room at about 10:40 p.m.

Pfaeffle apparently was trying to put his key into Unit 7 when a man inside shot at him, the chief said.

Continue reading at The Seattle Times.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: JAZZ JAM with Darin Clendenin Trio

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

POGGIE TAVERN: Jammin’ in the Junction! w/ Better World
4714 California SW, 9:00pm

Jazz Alley continues their Sunday night series featuring local jazz artists to packed houses … lets hope this series continues!

SUNDAY, JULY 19 – McTUFF
JAZZ ALLEY
2033 Sixth Ave., Seattle; (206-441-9729 or www.jazzalley.com).

7:30 show is full, 9:30 show has been added! Be sure to make reservation, as they are required for FREE shows!

The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents Seattle’s own McTuff. Band members are Joe Doria (Hammond B3 Organ), Skerik (saxophone), Andy Coe (guitar) and D’Vonne Lewis (drums). Showtimes at 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Doors at 6pm and 9:15pm. FREE SHOW – RESERVATIONS REQUIRED!

Joe Doria brings together some of the areas finest with “McTUFF”! What began as an ode to some of the organ greats in soul jazz, such as delivering their own take on the works of Jimmy Smith and Captain Jack McDuff, soon turned into something more: a movement towards being a band that can appeal to almost any audience, room and vibe. Blending the caliber of musicianship and improvisational experience along with a love of all genres of music, McTUFF combines ingredients to show live audiences that no show is the same.

Joe Doria – organ
Skerik – saxophone
Andy Coe – guitar
D’Vonne Lewis – drums

PonyBoy Records will be presenting the music this Saturday and Sunday at the Kirkland Uncorked Festival.

The event is held in downtown Kirkland’s Marina Park at 25 Lakeshore Plaza, Kirkland, Washington

Saturday, July 18

2:00 – 3:15 JAY THOMAS QUARTET
Jay Thomas, John Hansen, Chuck Kistler, Phil Parisot

3:30 – 4:45 CAROLYN GRAYE QUARTET
Carolyn Graye, Tony Foster, Chuck Kistler, Greg Williamson

6:30 – 7:45 MONKSTONE THEOCRACY
Bill Anschell, Jon Hamar, Greg Williamson, Mike West

8:15 – 9:30 KAREN SHIVERS QUARTET
Karen Shivers, Bill Anschell, Chris Clark, Greg Williamson

Sunday, July 19

2:30 – 3:45 BIG BAD GROVE SOCIETY
Greg Williamson, Alexey Nikolaev, Dan Marcus, Al Keith, John Hansen, Jon Hamar

4:00 – 5:15 HANS BREHMER & DAN O’BRIEN

UPPER PLAZA AT 2200: Cornish Jazz Faculty Group
Corner of Westlake Ave. and Denny Way, above Whole Foods Market, 11:45am – 1:30pm, FREE!

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Hadley Caliman Quintet feat. Thomas Marriott

JAZZ ALLEY: Fourplay

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Douglas Detrick Quintet with Douglas Detrick (trumpet/flugelhorn/composition), Hashem Assadullahi (alto sax), Justin Morell (guitar), Josh Tower (bass) and Ryan Biesack (drums)
9pm – Kevin Jones Trio with Kevin Jones (guitar/vocals), Greg Hendrickson (bass/vocals) and Doyle Wood (mandolin)
11pm – Dion Roy and Petermere

BAKE’S PLACE: Butch Harrison Quartet with special guest vocalist Josephine Howell

SERAFINA: Kiko Freitas

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: Rochelle House

NORTH CITY BISTRO: David George Trio

PAPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet

Cornish Jazz Faculty Group
FRIDAY, JULY 17
11:45 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
FREE!

Hans Teuber, saxophones
Jay Thomas, trumpet and saxophone
Dave Peterson, guitar
Chuck Deardorf, bass
Mark Ivester, drums

South Lake Union Summer Concerts at 2200
Upper Plaza at 2200
Corner of Westlake Ave. and Denny Way, above Whole Foods Market

The Cornish Jazz Faculty Group features some of the top jazz performers and composers in the Northwest; this concert will feature compositions and arrangements by member of the group, as well as standard repertoire.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Sonando

JAZZ ALLEY: Fourplay

NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Inga Swearingen with Jeff Miley (guitar), Dylan Johnson (bass) and Britta Swearingen (vocals and percussion)
9pm – Beckley/O’Donnell Group with Ryan Beckley (guitar), Brendan O’Donnell (guitar), Nate Omdal (bass), Zach Para (drums) and Zubin Hensler (trumpet)

PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIV: Dina Blade Quintet
1010 122nd Street S, Tacoma, 7:00pm

LO-FI: Gravity w/ Tim Kennedy, Ian Sheridan, & Claudio Rochat Felix

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: “The Hang” Jam w/ Josh Rawlings, Evan Flory-Barnes, Jeremy Jones

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson, & Tad Britton

EARSHOT JAZZ PRESENTS: Sjenka
Chapel Performance space at Good Shepherd Center, 7:30 pm

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Vern Sielert Dektet

JAZZ ALLEY: Fourplay

NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – CozMotion with Michael Cosgrove (guitar), Larry Messer (guitar), Jon Hamar (bass) and Lars Larsen (drums)
9pm – Vocal jam hosted by Kim Rushing, with Paul Sawyer (guitar), Joe Casalini (bass) and Robert Rushing (drums)

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: Bebop with KNOT

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ ALLEY: Fourplay

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jazz Ambassadors with Chris Copland (drums), Amber Navran (alto sax), Brent Generous (guitar) and Ricky Bakken (bass)
9pm – Jessie Sawyers (tap), with Tim Kennedy (piano) and Claudio Rochat-Felix (drums), and special guest Mark Mendonca (tap)

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

MIX: Don Mock

A letter was posted on the KBCS website regarding up-coming changes to their programming beginning August 24. For us Seattle jazz fans, Drive Time Jazz has been cut along with The Bud and Don Show, BeBop Spoken Here, 20th Century Jazz and Vintage Jazz. These shows have been replaced with John Gilbreath hosting a multi-genre show 9:00am – Noon, Monday – Friday. For more information, visit the KBCS website at http://www.kbcs.fm

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Dear supporter of KBCS,

At KBCS, we’re continually working to better serve our listening community. This ongoing effort has helped us understand how our listeners use KBCS as well as other radio stations, and it’s helped us determine what we believe a thriving community-service and listener-focused station should look and sound like.

KBCS is—and will remain—a station that prides itself on being a place for community volunteers to learn broadcasting and to be radio programmers. For more than two decades, there have been countless volunteers who have put immense amounts of energy, time, and passion into the radio shows they create at KBCS. And, as we move ahead, there will be countless others who will join current KBCS volunteer programmers and continue this important tradition. As KBCS staff, we have the deepest gratitude for the commitment and dedication of all station volunteers, past, present, and future.

The reality KBCS faces is, quite frankly, one of declining audience and financial support. To us, this has been a clear indicator that we’re not serving our audience as well as we could. Most importantly, we also see this as an opportunity to do just that.

Over the last three years, KBCS has undergone a rigorous process to better understand our audience and to formulate a cohesive strategic plan. This has involved hours of interviews, volunteer and community meetings, street corner surveys, as well as extensive consideration of when and how KBCS listeners currently listen to us. This work has led us to the new programming we’ll present next month, programming we believe will offer deeper service to our listeners.

So, beginning August 24th, 2009, KBCS will:

• Expand weekday public affairs programming from 5 to 9 a.m., offering Public Radio International’s The Takeaway from 5 to 8 a.m., followed by Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now! from 8 to 9 a.m. Both shows will be hosted by local community members trained in the KBCS public affairs department.

• Bring on longtime KBCS host John Gilbreath every weekday from 9 a.m. to noon. John’s show will be a daily musical journey touching on many genres, and focusing on his extensive knowledge of jazz, world, and Americana.

• Feature current veteran KBCS folk hosts weekdays from 12 noon to 3 p.m., who will present programming spanning the breadth of the American music tradition, from the early days of country, folk, blues, and beyond, to today’s singer-songwriters and local artists crafting new music not heard anywhere else.

• Expand weekday public affairs programming by offering a re-broadcast of Democracy Now! at 3 p.m., followed by The Michael Eric Dyson Show at 4 p.m.

• Air locally produced programs Listen Up Northwest, Voices of Diversity, and One World Report weekdays at 5 p.m., as well as syndicated programs Counterspin, Grit Radio, and Sound of Young America

• Round out evening weekday public affairs with Hard Knock Radio from 6 to 7 p.m., with 6 p.m. headlines from Free Speech Radio News. As in the morning, the entire afternoon lineup of public affairs programming will be hosted by local community members.

As with any growth and change, we’ve had to make some tough choices. The programming plan discontinues Drive Time Jazz weekday mornings, Daily Planet weekday afternoons, The Bud & Don Show Monday mornings, BeBop Spoken Here Tuesday mornings, and 20th Century Jazz: The First Half and Vintage Jazz Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Some of this programming will, however, be
offered weekly through our online streaming archive.

These have been exceedingly difficult decisions to reach, decisions which we do not take lightly, and which were made only after extensive consideration of how we can best serve our audience. We acknowledge and pay tribute to these many talented and dedicated programmers who have added tremendously to the KBCS community for many years, and hope that they continue to be a part of KBCS and its future.

We’re always astounded by the generosity and dedication of our programmers, volunteers, and all of the people who are working together to build KBCS as a community resource. We believe the changes outlined here will have a profoundly positive effect on KBCS, and will deepen our service to the community through the programming we offer.

We look forward with great optimism to KBCS’s future, and we hope you’ll share it with us.

With respect,
Steve Ramsey, General Manager
Peter Graff, Program Director
Joaquin Uy, Public Affairs Director
Sabrina Roach, Development and Outreach Director
Uli Johnson, Membership and Web Director

JAZZ ALLEY: Al Keith Group

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

POGGIE TAVERN: Jammin’ in the Junction w/ Marc Smason
4714 California SW, 9:00pm

The PONY BOY ALL-STAR BIG BAND is excited to be a part of the Centennial Celebrations of Seattle’s 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition. We will be performing for a welcoming of the OCEAN-TO-OCEAN MODEL-T AUTO RALLY as they come through the town of Snoqualmie, recreating the famous 1909 cross-country race.

Friday, July 10
Noon to 1:00p.m.
Meadowbrook Farm, Snoqualmie
1711 Boalch Ave, North Bend, WA 98045

The 16-piece Big Band will present marches and songs performed at and written especially for Seattle’s 1909 A-Y_P Expo; complete with old instruments and dancers in period costumes. The 1909 music will be deconstructed and collaged into a modern jazz orchestra re-interpretation.

The Pony Boy All-Star Big Band has presented many “Sonic Sculpture” Performances:
http://www.ponyboyrecords.com/files/big_band/travelling-big-band.html

This performance is presented by 4Culture’s Site-Specific Program and the City of Snoqualmie.

from The Seattle Times:

The offices of the thriving, local and independent record label Origin Records are in an upper bedroom in the Seward Park home of drummer John Bishop, who started the company 12 years ago with fellow drummer Matt Jorgensen.

Even as the traditional recording industry has contracted, as jazz has struggled to compete commercially with rock and popular music, Origin has succeeded by keeping its goals modest. The business that started in a ramshackle, rented apartment is still a home business. Very little is spent on marketing and advertising. Recording projects aim simply to break even financially and help artists disseminate their music. The rest of the world, it turns out, has been paying attention.

Origin was recognized last month as the 2009 Jazz Label of the Year by JazzWeek, which is to jazz what Billboard is to pop music.

“We never had any goals or plans to turn it into anything in particular,” said Bishop, whose trio Scenes will play Jazz Alley Sunday night. “Mostly we put out music that fits with all the other music we put out. The sound and feel of the label hasn’t changed much since we put out our first three records.

Continue reading at The Seattle Times.

The trio will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., Seattle; $10 (206-441-9729 or www.jazzalley.com).

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: CD Release Party featuring Greta Matassa
with Thomas Marriott & Susan Pascal

BAKE’S PLACE: Amandah Jantzen Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM:
5:30pm: Leif Todusek
9:00pm: Tor Dietrichson Blues Machine

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Roxy Coss Quartet with Roxy Coss (tenor sax), John Hansen (piano), Evan Flory-Barnes (bass) and Phil Parisot (drums)
9pm – Steve Alboucq Quartet, with Steve Alboucq (trumpet), Chris Morton (piano), Nathan Parker (double bass), Matt Page (drums)
11pm – Martin Murray Band, with Martin Murray (acoustic guitar/vocals), Jeremy Pridgeon (electric guitar), Daniel Murray (bass) and Emilio Garcia (drums)

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Trish Hatley Trio

HIROSHI’S JAZZ AND SUSHI: Jazz & Sushi

NORTH CITY BISTRO: Primo Kim Trio

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio (5:00 – 7:00pm)

13 COINS: Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & Mike Slivka

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Mark Taylor Quartet

EARSHOT JAZZ IN THE SECOND CENTURY:
JIm Norton Quartet
Chapel Performance space at Good Shepherd Center, 7:30 pm

EARSHOT ART OF JAZZ: Bernie Jacobs
from Earshot Magazine: Performing in a wide variety of musical styles, including rhythm and blues, straight-ahead jazz, and pop, Bernie Jacobs presents his longstanding quartet of Eric Verlinde (piano), Chuck Kistler (bass), and Andre Thomas (percussion). A self-taught musician, Jacobs has sung since childhood and established himself a master of the jazz flute, an instrument he took up over 40 years ago. Jacobs has more recently added the tenor and alto saxophones to his arsenal. In addition to leading his own quartet and the Smooth Groove ensemble, Jacobs has over the years performed with such Seattle luminaries as Buddy Catlett, Floyd Standifer, Woody Woodhouse, Phil Sparks, Brian Nova, Clarence Acox, and Larry Fuller. Presented as part of the Art of Jazz series, Bernie Jacobs will perform at the Seattle Art Museum on July 9 at 5:30PM. The performance is free with museum admission.

JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell

NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Clave Nagila with Jason Parker (trumpet), Tobi Stone (clarinet), Adrian Witherspoon (trombone), Brian Bermudez (bari sax), Nate Omdal (bass), Adam Kessler (drums) and Lalo Bello (percussion)
9pm – Black Math Quartet with Brian Heaney (guitar), Liam O’Connor (drums), Tony Sodano (bass) and Matt Reid (trumpet)

STANFORD’S RESTAURANT: Gail Pettis Trio
17380 Southcenter Pkwy, Tukwila, 7:00pm

LO-FI: Gravity w/ Tim Kennedy, Ian Sheridan, & Claudio Rochat Felix

LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE: “The Hang” Jam w/ Josh Rawlings, Evan Flory-Barnes, Jeremy Jones

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton

from The Seattle Times:

For many years, trumpet player and composer Chad McCullough has been an indispensable member of the small team at Origin Records, helping artists manage their projects, taking photographs and doing a lot of the grunt work in the office. Now with the release of his first CD, “Dark Wood, Dark Water,” McCullough is officially an Origin artist as well.

The album features his dream-team sextet performing nine songs, seven of them McCullough’s own compositions. “There’s no way I would have gotten all these guys to play with me if I hadn’t been pulling favors for them for the last three years,” said McCullough, 27, who grew up in Seattle listening to many of his sidemen play.

“Dark Wood, Dark Water” also features Mark Taylor and Geof Bradfield on saxophones, Bill Anschell on piano, Jeff Johnson on bass and John Bishop on drums. McCullough says the album is a humble effort that spotlights the group as much as him.”I didn’t want it to be a typical first album where you try to show everyone you can play really fast and really high.”

The Chad McCullough Group plays a CD-release party at 7:30 tonight at Tula’s Jazz Club, 2214 Second Ave., Seattle; $10 (206-443-4221 or www.tulas.com).

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Chad McCullough CD Release Party

NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Band Van Baumgart with Chris Fagan (sax), Jamie Baumgart (guitar), Jon Hamar (bass) and Phil Parisot (drums)
9pm – Vocal Jam hosted by Cara Francis

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

NORTH CITY BISTRO: FM Duo