Seattle Jazz Scene

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

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

WASABI BISTRO: Brazilian Jazz

Anything else happening today?

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: Hadley Caliman Quintet
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, 5:30pm

JAZZ ALLEY: Steve Tyrell

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Susan Carr Ensemble

LO-FI: The Teaching

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton

NEW ORLEANS: The Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Jon Sheckler Group, with Jon Sheckler (drums), Erika Price (piano), Nathan Parker (bass), and Eli Miesner (guitar)
9pm – The Dandelion Greens – Roots/Americana with Pete Keating (guitar/percussion/vocals), Joe Cook (upright bass/accordion), Talia Marcus (fiddle), Tim Dolan (banjo), and Heidi Schuler (accordion)

TWISTED CORK WINE BAR: Kevin McCarthy Quartet
900 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue Hyatt

CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE: Sunship
Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N
From Earshot Jazz: Half of the powerful, late-and-lamented Stinkhorn reemerged a couple of years back as Sunship – named, of course, for the mighty John Coltrane Quartet album of the early 1960s. The guitarist from Stinkhorn, Brian Heaney, and the horn player, Michael Monhart, teamed up with bassist Andrew Luthringer and drummer David Revelli (Grassy Knoll) for a new lineup of outstanding range and imagination. Then, the band’s distinctive sound and approach drew the attention, and quickly the membership, of trombone virtuoso and Seattle new-music legend Stuart Dempster. The result is a quintet quite unlike any other, always transporting, joyful, and meditative whether in full flight or free floe. At the Chapel Performance Space in Wallingford, tonight and also on 7/23) where they collaborate with the room’s sonorous vaulted-ceiling performance space, formerly a chapel.

Andy Clausen reports from the Roosevelt High School big band tour of europe:

We have had an amazing first week touring through France.

On Monday we flew into Paris and immediately drove to Beaune. After one night in this beautiful old village, we drove to a small town outside of Lyon.

On Wednesday, we opened for Le Big Band de L’Ouest at The Periscope Club in Lyon. It was a lot of fun to hang with the band and hear them play.

On Thursday, we were scheduled to perform at Jazz A Vienne; the biggest jazz festival in France. Unfortunately, due to poor weather, our outdoor concert was cancelled. But we had the great opportunity of hearing Ornette Coleman on the main stage that evening.

Friday we drove through the beautiful countryside to St. Maximin in the heart of the Provence region. We had a great performance that evening in the town square of a very small village near St. Maximin. On saturday, we performed at church in another small provencal town. On Sunday we drove from St. Maximin, along the Cote D’Azur all the way to Monterosso Al Mare. This town is one of five small costal villages known as Cinque Terre. We have a performance schedule on Tuesday night. Then we will for to Florence and Perugia.

What a great opportunity.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: MusicWorks Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ ALLEY: Sara Gazarek

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Motel 5

NEW ORLEANS: Legend Band with Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
6pm – Mike Gullo and Friends, with Mike Gullo (vocals), Scotty Bemis (piano), Brian “Blade” Greggs (drums), and Colleen Gilligan (bass)
8pm – Vocal jazz jam session, hosted by Carrie Wicks with Victor Noriega (piano)

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce

FREE NOONTIME CONCERT!
Sonando at Bellevue City Hall (450 110th Ave NE, Bellevue)

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ ALLEY: Sara Gazarek

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Nate Omdal Nonet, with Brian Bermudez (alto sax), Mike Dodge (tenor sax), Andrew Morrill (bari sax), Corey Dansereau (trumpet), Jason Parker (flugelhorn), Andy Clausen (trombone), Mike Owcharuk (piano), Jim Parsons (drums), and Nate Omdal (arranger, bass)

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

TRIPLE DOOR: James Hunter

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: VOCAL JAM with Greta Matassa

NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder
513 N. 36th St., Seattle, 10:00pm

LA SPIGA: Eli Rosenblatt

SEATTLE DRUM SCHOOL: Jim Knapp Orchestra
12510 15th Ave NE, Seattle, 8:0pm

Tue – Wed, July 8 – 9, 7:30pm
Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue
Seattle WA 98121
Reservations: 206.441.9729

Championed by some of music’s most celebrated figures, Sara Gazarek has emerged as a strikingly original artist with limitless potential. Blessed with a gorgeous, translucent voice, excellent pitch and supple sense of time, Gazarek is steeped in the jazz tradition, but is not afraid to embrace the music that moves her generation.

Her most recent release, Return To You was created by the same talented team that put together Yours (including Grammy-award nominated bass master John Clayton as producer) and her equally youthful, all-star LA based band. Return To You features well-planned arrangements of more contemporary standards by songwriters Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Harry Connick Jr., and Gillian Welch. Some for the best material however, comes from Gazarek’s acclaimed pianist, Josh Nelson, as he displays his considerable gifts as a composer and lyricist with four new songs.

Born and raised in Seattle, she was exposed to a variety of art forms at a very early age. Gazarek attended Roosevelt High School where she fell in love with its award-winning jazz program instantly. Under the influence of jazz educator and trombonist Scott Brown, Gazarek traveled as a soloist with the school’s jazz orchestra to NYC to compete in the nationally acclaimed Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival in 2000. Presented at the Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, Gazarek was awarded the first ever Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Vocalist Award.

Deems Tsutakawa, Michael Powers, Jovino Santos Neto, Greta Matassa and Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder are among the groups performing at various Seattle free summer concerts.

The Seattle Times has a complete lineup of the various events and artists.

Seattle Times Article
Complete Free Summer Concert Listing

JAZZ ALLEY: Acoustic Alchemy

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM:
Happy Hour: Kiko Freitas; Baby Bok Choy

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Beth Winter / Dawn Clement Quartet

NEW ORLEANS: The Bob Jackson Band

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Todo Es, with Ken Curtiss (guitar), John Lilley (bass) and Stephen Yamada-Heidner (percussion/steel drum)
9pm – First Circle – Original Contemporary Jazz with Michael Cosgrove and Larry Messer (guitars), Jeff Fiorini (bass) and Lars Larson (drums)

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson and Tad Britton

ASTEROID CAFE: Tim Kennedy Jam Session

LO-FI: The Teaching

JAZZ ALLEY: Acoustic Alchemy

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Nelda Swiggett Trio

NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
6pm – The Daly Quartet, with Blair Daly (drums), Ryan Clodfelter (guitar), Ivan Arteaga (sax) and Devin Lowe (bass)
8pm – Vocal jazz jam session, hosted by Carrie Wicks with the Dan Sales Trio

TUTTA BELLA: Kiko Freitas

BENAROYA HALL: Mark OConnors Hot Swing

Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson’s home has been saved from foreclosure – for now. Thanks, in part, to music legend Quincy Jones and contemporary jazz artist Diane Schuur.

More than $43,000 poured in – including donations from Jones and Schuur – after recent news stories about the Seattle jazz legend’s financial woes, said Carmen Gayton, a friend of Anderson’s family.

The money to stop the foreclosure was delivered Monday, Gayton added. She declined to say how much Jones and Schuur had donated.

But Gayton said Anderson, 79, needs more money in order to be able to decrease the monthly payments on her principal loan balance of nearly $460,000. Gayton added that a financial manager is working pro-bono to look for ways to restructure Anderson’s loan, which has monthly payments of more than $4,400.

Read the entire AP story at The Seattle Times

The 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival will run from October 17 – November 2.

Now in its 20th year, the Earshot Jazz Festival presents the full spectrum of jazz — from high profile concerts in Seattle’s fine halls, to cutting-edge creations that move the art form ever forward. The event is respected for honoring the deep heritage of jazz while celebrating the leading edges of the art form. This year’s festival will present hundreds of the most important artists of our day in more than 60 events in venues all around Seattle. In addition to concert performances, the festival includes educational programs and panels, a film series, poetry and author readings, and art exhibits.

Coming in 2008

Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispel, Maceo Parker, Billy Bang, Larry Ochs, Ravi Coltrane, Marcin Wasilewski, Gerry Granelli’s V-16, James Moody w/ Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, and many, many more.

For more information, visit: http://earshot.org/Festival/festival.html

BENAROYA HALL: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ ALLEY: Acoustic Alchemy

TRIPLE DOOR MUSICQUARIUM: Chris Spencer, Matt Jorgensen, Devin Lowe

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jay Thomas Big Band

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
6006 12th Ave South, Seattle, 206-767-0280, 9:00pm

Jazz bands from Roosevelt and Garfield have shared their work for international audiences every summer for over a decade. Last summer, The Garfield Jazz Band went to Europe and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and The Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. And this Monday, The Roosevelt Jazz Band is heading to France and Italy for a 16 day performance tour. With performances scheduled at an ancient Roman amphitheater at Jazz ‘a Vienne in France, Piazza IV Novembre at the Umbria Jazz Festival and the dedication of a totem poll from the Seattle-Perugia sister city organization, The Roosevelt Jazz Band is excited to represent our city for international audiences.

Roosevelt Jazz Band member Andy Clausen will be posting photos and updates from the road over the next two weeks.

Performance Schedule:

France:

July 2nd – Lyon: Performance with Big Band de L’Ouest
July 3rd – Jazz A Vienne
July 4th – St. Maximin
July 5th – St. Maximin

Italy:

July 7 or 8th – Monterosso Al Mare
July 9 or 10th – Florence
July 11 or 12th – Perugia: Totem poll dedication ceremony
July 11th – Umbria Jazz Festival
July 12th – Umbria Jazz Festival

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Led by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra brings together some of today’s best jazz musicians for an evening of jazz at its finest.

Tuesday, July 1st at 7:30 PM
Benaroya Hall
200 University Street, Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets: 206-215-4747
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