A sampling of what is happening tonight. Got anything to add? Post it in the Comments section and we’ll add it to the post.
Tulas: Sonando
The Hendrix Lounge: Big Neighborhood
Jazz Alley: Janita
New Orleans: The Legend Band with Clarence Acox
Ballard Jam House: Vocal Jam with Carrie Wicks
Tutta Bella: Charlie Akeley
Thaiku: Ron Weinstein Trio
Bill Barton has posted a review of the first night of The Seattle Jazz Showcase featuring the Hadley Caliman Quintet and the Marc Seales Group.
The Seattle Jazz Showcase series got off to an auspicious start Monday night, October 15, at the Seattle Drum School’s LAB Performance Space …
Hadley Caliman’s quintet opened with “Morning Cycle,” a Thomas Marriott original that has a funky hard bop edge reminiscent of the heyday of Horace Silver and his classic Blue Note groups. Darius Willrich’s witty and swinging piano solo had some oblique allusions to what sounded like Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”
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It’s common for musicians to hit the stage running by beginning with an up tempo piece to get both themselves and the audience warmed up. Not so with this stunningly nuanced set from the Seales group. There was a long, introspective, deeply spiritual solo piano introduction that wended its way through a panoply of elegant and subtle variations on two traditional spirituals – “Bye and Bye” and “Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen” – before morphing seamlessly into Seales’ composition “Soft.”
Join us Monday at the LAB at the Seattle Drum School as we kick off the Seattle Jazz Showcase. Three weeks of the best of Seattle jazz starts with two Seattle legends, Marc Seales and Hadley Caliman.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15th
HADLEY CALIMAN QUINTET
Hadley Caliman was described by Earshot magazine as “a living legend… the real deal… a gentleman of spirit, tenacity and dedication… with a powerful philosophy towards his life and his music.” Hadley recently retired from Cornish College of the Arts after teaching jazz there for 20 years. He performs in the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco and was inducted into Seattle’s Jazz Hall of Fame for 2004.
featuring:
Hadley Caliman – saxophones
Thomas Marriott – trumpet
Darius Willrich – piano
Phil Sparks – bass
Matt Jorgensen – drums
THE MARC SEALES GROUP
A noted pianist and composer, Marc Seales has shared the stage with many of the great players in the last two decades. For 18 years heÃs been a mainstay in the bands of bop legend Don Lanphere, with whom he has toured Europe and recorded half a dozen albums, most featuring Sealesà compositions. In concerts, festivals & clubs, his band mates in recent years have included Benny Carter, Joe Henderson, Larry Coryell, Bobby Hutcherson, Slide Hampton, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Clark Terry, Art Pepper and Frank Morgan.
Marc Seales – piano
Thomas Marriott – trumpet
Evan Florey Barnes – bass
D’Vonne Lewis – drums
The LAB at Seattle Drum School
12510 15th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98125 {map it}
Tel: (206)364-8815
Tickets: $10
Our website was recently featured in the Seattle Times talking about the launch and the Seattle Jazz Showcase which starts on Monday:
Gig-abyte: New Web site leads to jazz showcase
By Raina Wagner
Seattle Times jazz criticMaybe we should just call October Jazz Month and be done with it.
The 2007 Earshot Jazz Festival is on the horizon (Oct. 19-Nov. 4), and as if that weren’t enough, a host of local jazz musicians have come together to present the Seattle Jazz Showcase, three weeks of concerts starting Monday and continuing through Nov. 1.
The concert series actually grew out of a new Web site, www.seattlejazzscene.com, said drummer Matt Jorgensen, one of the musicians behind the new endeavor.
“The jazz scene can get kind of fractured” in this city, said Jorgensen, who also co-produces the annual Ballard Jazz Walk. Through the new Web site, the local scene has a single venue that publicizes everything going on around town.
“And what better way to get the word out [about launch of the site] than to have a bunch of gigs around it?” Jorgensen asked.
Read the complete article at The Seattle Times
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