Seattle Jazz Scene

Pony Boy Records Presents
JAZZ and SUSHI
Fridays, 7:30 – 10:00pm
no cover

Friday, September 5
Gene Argel-Jay Thomas, Special Reunion Show

Gene Argel – Hammond B3 Organ
Jay Thomas – sax and trumpet
Greg Williamson – drums

This will be a party! Yes, we’ll have a Hammond B3 organ at Hiroshi’s for Jazz & Sushi… Gene Argel is a native of the Pacific Northwest, and was a much loved fixture and “monster player” on the Seattle Jazz scene until his move to Hawaii in 1980. He dazzles his audiences with his jazz, blues, and Latin rhythms. Jay Thomas especially remembers his funky earthy inflections. Gene has played with a number of talented artists such as Gabe Balthazar, Joe Henderson, Henry Allen, Emil Richards, Branford Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Bill Evans and George Benson. Add to the mix some new friends with “funky drummer” Greg Williamson and an undisclosed guest horn… Might there be a recording in process?

Hiroshi’s Restaurant
2501 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA
reservations recommended
ph: (206)726-4966

From Earshot Jazz:

Drummer Clarence Acox has stepped up to fill the very large shoes of Seattle legend Floyd Standifer by holding down the Wednesday night slot at the venerable New Orleans Restaurant in Pioneer Square. Acox leads the Legacy Band (formerly the Floyd Standifer Quartet), featuring a handful of well-known area musicians. To inform any visiting tourists who may not already be aware, Acox is a locally-infamous ambassador of the Seattle jazz scene with impeccable jazz credentials. His experience includes a thirty-five-year tenure as the director of the award-winning Garfield High jazz program, leading the Seattle University jazz ensemble, and founding the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. The Wednesday-night tradition of straight-ahead jazz at the New Orleans (114 1st Ave S) lives on. Music begins at 8 pm and is free.

Anacortes Jazz Festival:
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM : The Tiptons
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Kellylee Evans
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Pearl Django
Playing the breaks on the food court Stage: Mike Allen Trio

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: VOCAL JAM with Greta Matassa

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Rebecca Richardson Quintet w/ Dan Heck

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

BAKE’S PLACE: Crossing Borders featuring Jennifer Scott and Kristen Strom

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM:
5:30pm: Isabella DuGraf/Josh Rawlings Duo
9:00pm: The Caffeine Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Sue Nixon and the Leo Raymundo Trio
9pm – Caryn Kupferman and Brian Butler
11pm – Tim Lerch – Jazz/Blues guitarist/vocalist, with Patrick McDanel (bass) and Frank Heye (drums)

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks / Thomas Marriott / Matt Jorgensen

SERAFINA: Kelly Ash Trio

GRAZIE: Scott Lindenmuth

OWL ‘N THISTLE: The Joe Doria Trio

PAMPAS ROOM: Brian Nova Quartet w/ Fred Radke

Guitarist Dan Heck, who led a number of jazz groups and was instrumental in creating a number of recurring jazz gigs around Seattle throughout the 1990s, is back in Seattle this week and has a CD release party tonight at Tula’s

Heck’s new CD on Origin Records is entitled, “Compositionality.” You can preview the CD and order it online by clicking here.

Thur, Aug 28 – Dan Heck “Compositionality” CD Release Party
Tula’s Jazz Club, 2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, 8:00pm
call 206-443-4221 for reservations

Dan will also be performing later this week at:

Fri, Aug 29 – Rebecca Richardson/Dan Heck group featuring Thomas Marriott, Geoff Harper and Byron Vannoy
Tula’s Jazz Club, 2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, 8:00pm
call 206-443-4221 for reservations

Sat, Aug 30 – with Thomas Marriott at the Anacortes Jazz Festival

BYRON VANNOY’S MERIDIAN | PONTIUS PILOTS

Thursday, Aug 28, 7:30pm
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N

After several years of steady and impressive growth as a player and leader, Byron Vannoy has developed a quintet sound that exemplifies impressively his sense of one direction jazz is taking in this century. He says: “I believe this is music that could be representative of the 21st century because we are not ignoring any influence. If I heard something, I wrote it and developed it without considering the origin or the style. I chose players who are very versatile and have played a wide variety of music. It is an organic fusion music that is honest and unpretentious, and at the core hopefully retains a sense of progressiveness and tradition.”

Vannoy is a busy drummer, working with such projects as the Hans Teuber Trio, Ziggurat Quartet, the Joe Doria Trio, Julian Priester’s Cue, and Tom Varner’s Tentet. With his own Meridian, he issued an album of original music last month. Rooted in jazz and fueled by rock and popular music, it features both improvisation and composed sections. His writing embraces odd meters whose harmonic changes and vamps offer springboards for free playing.

He has ideal partners for that. All are highly seasoned players with experience ranging through the full spectrum of jazz styles. For example, saxophonist Eric Barber, who integrates elements of jazz, Balkan, and Indian music into a personal vocabulary of extended saxophone techniques, has worked with many figures of national repute, and leads the impressive Ziggurat quartet jointly with pianist Bill Anschell.

Pontius Pilots is an electro-acoustic project that combines live piano and keyboards with pre-recorded samples. A collaboration between pianist and composer Victor Noriega and producer-musician Robert Nelson (e.R.DoN), the duo marries an array of real-instrument samples and synthesized sounds in combination with the acoustic piano to create, as Daniel Mitha wrote in the Journal of Popular Noise, “improv jazz forms imbued with inscrutable MPC-triggered samples.”

Earshot Presents, Jazz In The Second Century: Byron Vannoy’s Meridian; Pontius Pilots

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Dan Heck CD Release Party with Thomas Marriott

THAIKU: Jon Alberts / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Fathia Atallah, with Hans Brehmer (piano), Joe Casalini (bass) and Steve Korn (drums)
9pm – Groovananda, with Wynne Paris – NYC based world/jazz with new fusion sound that includes world beat, jazz, yoga/Indian music and folk

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy & Friends

LO-FI: The Teaching

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

MAY: Hans Teuber Trio

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Motel 5

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: WSU Cougar Jazz Night

NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Malibu Manouche, surf jazz with Neil Andersson (guitar), Peter Pendras (guitar) and Chuck Deardorf (bass)
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

via Jim Wilke:

I just received word that Art Foxall died last night. He was a much-loved member of this jazz community and beyond. He had been in a hospice and I understand died of renal failure. He played and appeared with Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge, Little Richard, Ivory Joe Hunter. His band included Jaki Byard, Joe Gordon, H.B. Barnum, Alan Dawson, Gigi Gryce, Sam Rivers and many more. He played in Europe frequently and headlined the Heineken Jazz Festival in Holland for three years.

There was recently a very loving tribute at the hospice from his musician friends . You can see a slideshow at http://www.paradoxstudios.net/art_foxall.htm

For more information please see http://cdbaby.com/cd/artfoxall

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Friends with Patrice Rushen, Melvin Davis and Will Kennedy

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Little Big Band

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jump Ensemble, Ballard’s own(!), with Gregg Robinson (piano), Mark Filler (drums) and Marty Haswgawa (bass).

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Dan Heck Trio w/ Joe Doria & Dvonne Lewis

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

DULCE’S LATIN BISTRO: Eric Verlinde
1430 34th Ave, 206-322-5453, 7pm

Bremerton saxophonist Mark Lewis has started a new series in Bremerton every Thursday night at El Coral mexican restaurant. Each week will feature Mark Lewis with a special guest.

Guest Artist Schedule:
Aug. 28: Steve Nowak, guitar
Sept. 4: Chuck Easton, guitar
Sept. 11: Lucy Mitchell, piano
Sept. 18: Mark Bullis, guitar/bass
Sept. 25: Overton Berry, piano

El Coral Mexican Restaurant
536 4th Street, Bremerton
(360) 479-2239

Thursday nights, 6:30 to 9:30 pm

The music is on the main floor in the restaurant – all ages are welcome and there is no cover.

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

SEATTLE DRUM SCHOOL: Last Mondays with Geoff Harper / Dan Heck / Reade Whitwell
12510 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 8:00pm

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

LA SPIGA: Greta Matassa Trio

Are we missing anything? Post a comment and we’ll add it to the schedule.