Seattle Jazz Scene

Earshot Jazz presents two shows tonight

JAZZ IN THE SECOND CENTURY: Tony Grasso Saxophone? Quartet!
Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 7:30pm

ART OF JAZZ: Greta Matassa
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, 5:30pm, Free with museum admission

JAZZ ALLEY: Habib Koité and Bamada

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: James Baumgart Trio

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Al Keith and Friends

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Ambience, with George Stone (guitar), Leah Natale (vocals), Chris Busa (wind synth) and Burt Boice (bass)
9pm – Andrew Oliver Kora Ensemble, with Andrew Oliver (piano/keyboard), Kane Mathis (kora/guitar), Jim Knodle (trumpet), Brady Millard-Kish (acoustic/electric bass) and Kevin Van Geem (drums)

GALLERY 1412: Gallery 1412 Student Showcase

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson, Tad Britton

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio

13 COINS: HB Radke & Jet City Swingers

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

From The Seattle Times:

Young tappers and venerable jitterbuggers are brushing off their dance shoes and getting ready for the third annual Masters of Lindy Hop & Tap festival, kicking off tonight at the Century Ballroom.

And if you happen to work anywhere near Seattle City Hall, you might want to consider brown-bagging it Thursday, and grabbing a ringside seat for a terpsichorean treat.

Starting at noon, the fest will offer a demonstration of up-tempo 1940s-style dancing at City Hall Plaza, with such rollicking oldsters as Sugar Sullivan, Norma Miller and Chazz Young, with special guest Lennart Westerlund (co-founder of the Swedish dance troupe the Harlem Hot Shots). A live combo led by swing band leader Casey MacGill will keep the joint jumpin’ …

Continue reading at The Seattle Times.

Thursday, August 14, 7:30 pm
Tony Grasso Saxophone? Quartet!

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N
$10 general admission

The Tony Grasso Saxophone? Quartet! has always been a surprising unit – after all, among its three saxophones is one trumpet: Grasso’s. After nine years of honing its sound, the quartet is stunning. He and his band mates have honed a sizzlingly-tight sound in which Grasso’s compositions serve as springboards to free improvisation. But listeners will often be hard-pressed to determine where composition ends and improvisation begins.

That effect stems in good part from the extraordinary precision and cohesion of the band, each of whose members has a long history in local jazz.

The quartet has two self-produced albums that present compositions drawing from jazz and classical-music influences, at times dissonantly or humorously but always captivatingly.

More info on the Earshot website.

JAZZ ALLEY: Andy Bey

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Beth Winter Vocal Showcase

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: PGM Trio (5:30pm)

NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jessica Stenson, with Darin Clendenin (piano)
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session, with the Bruce Barnard Trio

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

JAZZ ALLEY: Andy Bey

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Dave Anderson Quartet, with John Hansen (piano), Evan Flory-Barnes (bass), Adam Kessler (drums) and Dave Anderson (saxophones)
9pm – Josh Deutsch Quartet, with Josh Deutsch (trumpet), Justin Morell (guitar), Josh Tower (bass) and Jason Palmer (drums)

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
6006 12th Ave South, Seattle, 206-767-0280

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

NORTH CITY JAZZ WALK: Shoreline’s North City neighborhood (175th and 15th Ave NE) is holding a jazz walk tonight. Tickets are $15.

Peking House (175th and 15th NE) – Dan Sales Jazz Group with Liis Todd

The New Space Theatre (17525 15th Ave NE) – Paul Anastasio Trio

Hotwire Café (17605 15th Ave NE) – Janette West Quartet

North City Bistro & Wine (1520 NE 177th) –
Doug Reid Jazz Group with Emily McIntosh

USA Karate (1621 NE 177th) – Danny Ward & Reality

Vineyard Comm. Church (17730 15th Ave NE) – Critical Mass Big Band

Industrial Air (17805 15th Ave NE) – students groups from the Shoreline Jazz Camp

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

JAZZ ALLEY: Benefit for Habitat for Humanity with Dr John’s Lower 911 Band, Leroy Jones and Craig Klein from Harry Connick Jr’s Band and Jeremy Ryan

THE NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

LA SPIGA: Ray Baldwin’s Version Of Cool

Isaac Hayes, the musician, composer and producer whose innovative sound changed the shape of pop music and whose shaved head, bejeweled outfits and regal demeanor embodied African-American masculinity in the 1970s, has died.

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Paul De Barros has an article in the August Downbeat magazine about the fall of IAJE.

“That’s one of the main questions,” said Laura Johnson, recent IAJE treasurer and executive producer for Jazz at Lincoln Center. “Is it about serving educators or about serving the entire jazz community? Can you do both? And how do you do both well?”

Some board members contend that excessive spending by IAJE Executive Director Bill McFarlin brought the 40-year-old, $2.6 million organization down. But an examination of the group’s federal tax records from fiscal years 2000 to 2006 suggests that the board also did not take action as the budgetary crisis loomed.

In the fiscal year ending June 2001, IAJE’s net assets and bank balance were nearly $800,000, it had no significant debt and a year-end surplus of $15,000. The next year, it spent down half of that surplus paying for a poorly attended 2002 conference in Long Beach, Calif. (The aftershocks of September 11 had a harsh impact on attendance.) By June 2005, the organization was effectively wiped out. Yearly losses stood at $313,151, the organization had a $150,000 line of credit and a cumulative debt of $142,000. Even as revenues were diminishing, however, IAJE was expanding worldwide, convening board meetings on several continents, spawning new programs and hiring new employees. The question is: why?

Downbeat.com has provided links to the IAJE tax records on their website.

JAZZ ALLEY: Ahmad Jamal

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: James Baumgart Duo (5:30pm)

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

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Quartet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Cassandra Robertson
9pm – Zazou – Musette, Chanson Francaise and originals in the style of that genre
11pm – Gary Fukushima Group, with Gary Fukushima (piano), Martin Sullivan (trombone), Eric Eagle (drums) and Geoff Harper (bass)

SERAFINA: Jose Gonzales Trio

GALLERY 1412: Seattle Improvised Music presents Bob Marsh

GRAZIE: Kevin McCarthy

HIROSHI’S JAZZ AND SUSHI: John Hansen Trio
2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966

EARSHOT SECOND CENTURY CONCERT: Neil Welch & Narmada Project
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N
7:30pm, $10

JAZZ ALLEY: Ahmad Jamal

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: joietet

NEW ORLEANS: The Bob Jackson Band

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jennifer Derrick Adams, with Darin Clendenin (piano)
9pm – Free World Jazz, with Keith Judelman (piano), Andy Coe (guitar), Phil Parisot (drums), Evan Flory Barnes (bass), Lalo Bello (percussion), Ivan Galvez (percussion), and Jason Chambliss (trumpet)

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson, Tad Britton

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

13 COINS: HB Radke & Jet City Swingers

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio

GALLERY 1412: More Zero and Pontius Pilots

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

JAZZ ALLEY: Pearl Django

TRIPLE DOOR: Jessica Williams solo w/special guest Jeff Johnson

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Bert Gulhaugen / John Hansen Vocal Showcase

NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Patty LeClair
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session, hosted by Liis Todd, with the Dan Sales Trio

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

photos by Jim Levitt

The Eric Alexander Quintet

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TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band

JAZZ ALLEY: Django Reinhardt Festival featuring Dorado Schmitt

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE: Lu Evers Quartet, with Lu Evers (reeds), Evan McPherson (guitar), Paul Sherman (bass)

GALLERY 1412: Block Party with various musical performances. For info at http://www.tougocoffee.com/

MARTIN’S OFF MADISON: Karin Kajita
1413 14th Ave, 325-7000

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
6006 12th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98108, 206-767-0280

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

Thursday, August 7, 7:30 pm
Neil Welch & The Narmada Project

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N
$10 general admission
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With its debut record, Narmada (Belle Records), released earlier this year, the Neil Welch group announced that it would be a force on the local scene.

Heavily influenced by Hindustani music and the spiritual music of John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and Pharaoh Sanders, Narmada combines free improvisation, highly-arranged multi-meter composition, and traditional Hindustani musical forms.

Welch says: “I utilize what I believe will be an important part of the defining sounds of the second century in jazz music: the use of exotic scales, hybrid grooves (of different meters and musical traditions), and improvisational density (sound art, musical interplay, and pacing). My interpretation lies in hybrid, cross-cultural mediums such as the classical music of India, with its multi-directional scales, microtones, drones, and severe emotional depth.”

Each member of the ensemble is involved in an eclectic variety of music, including electronica, free improvisation, phase and minimalist music, rock opera, world music, swing, and classical Hindustani music.

Among the group’s members are some great veterans, like percussionist Tor Dietrichson and world-renowned sitarist Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee, and some of the most promising younger players in the region, including Welch and two members of the impressive Speak Quartet, Icasiano and Bergman.

Welch cites influences that include Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Miles Davis, and other artists “whose lasting artistic endeavors flowered from their willingness to extract the beauty in their own souls. The music of a new generation and a new century of musicians must be willing to accept influences from the past and the present, and use jazz as a reflection of our own endless search for new aesthetic depth.”

He adds: “The music I seek to create explores raw emotional depths, new aural sounds, and embraces where jazz has been without lying captive to its influence.”

from The Seattle Times …

Ernestine Anderson took some time making her way to the Jazz Alley stage on Thursday night.

But once she plopped down in a chair, grabbed the microphone and dove into numbers such as a swinging version of “I Love Being Here With You,” the Grammy Award-nominated, Seattle-based 79-year-old made it clear: She’s still as musically spry as some vocalists half her age.

Anderson’s spacious set, the opening of a four-night stand at Jazz alley, was full of jazzy and bluesy treats. The four-man combo accompanying her, including the versatile sax man John Goforth, stayed right on her wavelength.

Continue reading at The Seattle Times

JAZZ ALLEY: Hugh Masekela

SEATTLE DRUM SCHOOL: Jim Knapp Orchestra

NEW ORLEANS: VOCAL JAM with Greta Matassa

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

LA SPIGA: Eric Friedrich Duo

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Bill Anschell Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Ernestine Anderson

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Baby Bok Choy

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Nick Allison Trio, featuring Katie Walter
9pm – Andy Shaw Ensemble, with Milo Peterson (guitar), Phil Sparks (bass) and Matt Jorgensen (drums)

SERAFINA: Kelly Ash Trio

GRAZIE: Blues Union

GALLERY 1412: Sound For The Organization of Society

BAKE’S PLACE: Rebecca Parris Quartet featuring Randy Halberstadt, Jeff Johnson and Gary Hobbs

PAMPAS CLUB: Brian Nova Quartet w/ Stephanie Porter

ANACORTES ARTS FESTIVAL:
Katy Bourne w/ Darin Clendenin & Clipper Anderson
Cynthia Mullis w/ Susan Pascal, Jon Hamar, Maria Joyner

VERTIGO LOUNGE: Emily McIntosh & Karin Kajita

From The Seattle Times:

Brooklyn-dwelling Seattle native Aaron Parks, the pianist the Seattle Times’ jazz critic Paul De Barros says is a “musical genius,” has signed to the most famous label in jazz, Blue Note Records. His debut album for the label, called “Invisible Cinema,” comes out Aug. 19.

The signing and release come after years spent touring and recording with award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard, contributing to three Blue Note albums in the process. Thusly apprenticed, “Invisible Cinema” is Parks’ cotillion.

Continue reading at The Seattle Times.

SJS Note: You can preview and order Invisible Cinema by clicking here.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Thomas Marriott Quartet

JAZZ ALLEY: Ernestine Anderson

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Das Vibenbass

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

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Julie Olson, with Chris Morton (piano), Nate Parker (bass) and Matt Page (drums)
9pm – Paul Harding and the JuJu Detective agency, with Paul Harding (spoken music), Eric Barber (sax), Ben Hunter (violin), Gabriel C. Herbertson (guitar), Stephen Fandrich (piano), Geoff Harper (bass) and Mark Ostrowski (drums)
11pm – Free Jazz Tacoma, with David Miner (piano/keyboard), Dave Crow (woodwinds), Al Cantey (bass)

BAKE’S PLACE: Rebecca Parris Quartet

SERAFINA: Mercedes Nicole

GALLERY 1412:
Aphonia Recordings showcase series pt. 8: L.A. Lungs; Derek M. Johnson; The Precambrian

GRAZIE: Dennis Hastings Quartet

PAMPAS CLUB: Brian Nova Quartet w/ Susan Pascal
90 Wall St, 728-1140

HIROSHI’S JAZZ AND SUSHI: Ranney-Kistler Bop-heads
2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966

Craig and Laura Baker are celebrating Bake’s Place’s fifth anniversary this weekend by welcoming vocalist Rebecca Parris for a weekend of great music. Joining Parris will be Randy Halberstadt on piano, Jeff Johnson on bass and Gary Hobbs on drums.

Aug 1 – 2: Rebecca Parris Quartet
BAKE’S PLACE
4135 Providence Point Dr. SE
Issaquah, WA 98029

Reservations: 425-391-3335
http://bakesplace.org