Seattle Jazz Scene

Dulces Latin Bistro: Eric Verlinde
1430 34th Ave, 206-322-5453, 6:30pm

Jazz Alley: Quincy Jones presents Alfredo Rodriguez Trio
2033 6th Ave, 206-441-9729, 7:30pm

Martin’s On Madison: Karin Kajita
1413 14th Ave, 206-325-7000, 7:30pm

Mix: Don Mock & Steve Kim
6006 12th Ave South, 206-767-0280, 9:00pm

New Orleans: Holotradband
114 First Ave S, 206-622-2563, 7:00pm

Owl & Thistle: Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez
808 Post Ave, 206-621-7777, 10:00pm

Seamonster Lounge: McTuff Trio
2202 N 45th St, 206-633-1824, 10:00pm

Tula’s Jazz Club: Critical Mass Big Band
2214 2nd Ave, 206-443-4221, 7:30pm

Egan’s Ballard Jam House: Ann Brittain and Nanami Morikawa
1707 NW Market St, 206-789-1621, 7:00pm

from The New York Times:

THE atmosphere at Cafe Racer, a coffeehouse and bar in the University District here, skews distinctly postgrunge, with its scuffed floor and mismatched furniture, its thrift-store paintings on boldly colored walls. One Sunday evening this spring the place was packed mainly with teenagers and 20-somethings in T-shirts and sneakers, all listening intently to a band. Everything seemed of a piece except the music: sleek, dynamic large-group jazz, a whirl of dark-hued harmony and billowing rhythm.

“Split Stream” was the name of the composition, by Andy Clausen, an industrious young trombonist. Most of the players in his 10-piece band, crowding one end of the room, were his classmates at Roosevelt High School. A few others hailed from Garfield High School, which like Roosevelt is a reliable favorite in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s prestigious Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition. The intelligent sheen of Mr. Clausen’s writing was as striking as the composure of his peers, notably the trumpeter Riley Mulherkar, then a Garfield senior. It was impressive, and not just by the yardstick of their age.

Seattle, a city synonymous with alternative rock, has long sustained a provincial jazz culture, without much fuss or a signature sound. To outside jazz partisans the city is known as an incubator for high school talent that usually flies the coop, heading East for conservatory training and professional careers. Mr. Clausen and Mr. Mulherkar are both arriving in New York this week to begin their first semester at the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, which highlights both the lofty promise and a lingering problem of their hometown.

Continue reading at The New York Times:

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Tim Huling’s Composer’s Showcase

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

BOXLEY’S: Bluegrass with Down the Road Band

AMORE: Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Primo Kim

POGGIE TAVERN: Better World w/ Marc Smason & Joanne Klein

Sunday afternoons we sample some of the great jazz talent we have residing in our area, and tell you about where you can hear them live. This Sunday August 29, we have new CDs by Vancouver trumpeter Chris Davis, Seattle drummer and composer Matt Jorgensen, former Seattle singer Janis Mann’s new CD, plus Victoria singer Miranda Sage, and the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra plays an original composition by NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath, commissioned by the SRJO. Join us Sunday at 1 for updates on the local scene on Jazz Northwest from 88.5fm KPLU.

August 27th and 28th
DAVE PECK’S 2ND ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH AT TULA’S

Join Dave with
Jeff Johnson (bass) and Eric Eagle (drums)
For his 2nd annual birthday bash…
there will be cake!

Tula’s Jazz Club
2214 Second Avenue in Seattle
Shows begin at 7:30 PM
Reservations recommended
206.443.4221

The Seattle Times ran a piece in advance of a show Sunday led by Portland pianist Ben Darwish performing the music of Michael Jackson which also features Seattle trumpeter Chad McCullough. We are reprinting the excerpt below but do take exception to the line, “from PDX’s mostly nonexistent jazz scene.”

from The Seattle Times:
Happy birthday to the King of Pop! Here’s a why?/why not? way to celebrate the life and death of Michael Jackson, who would have turned 52 on Sunday: the Tractor hosts “an Afrobeat Tribute to Michael Jackson” featuring a 10-piece Portland band, the Works (pictured), interpreting Jackson’s hits in hard-hitting, floor-filling style. It’s a brilliant idea — cover bands are cheesy, a DJ night is rote. Instead, pianist Ben Darwish, a young luminary from PDX’s mostly nonexistent jazz scene, will lead a small army of vocalists, horns and percussion through Jackson’s over-familiar, if beloved, hits and emerge on the other end in dance-mad new territory. Though it’s been only a year since Jackson’s death, his memory lives on in creative form. Michael would be proud. 8 p.m. Sunday, Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave., Seattle; $8 (206-789-3599 or www.tractortavern.com).
– Jonathan Zwickel, Seattle Times staff writer

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Dave Peck Trio with Jeff Johnson and Eric Eagle (recommended)

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin

NEW ORLEANS: Flexicon w/Thomas Marriott

BAKE’S PLACE: Greta Matassa with San Francisco trumpeter John Worley

LUCID: Jason Parker Quartet’s Nick Drake Tribute

BOXLEY’S: Jay Thomas Trio

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – The Stone Brothers, with George Stone (guitar), Don Stone (trombone) and Kevin McCarthy (bass)
9pm – Steve Wacker and JW McClure
11pm – Peter Daniel Quartet, with Peter Daniel (sax), Devin Lowe (bass), Brad Gibson (drums) and Chris Morton (piano)

AMORE: Lonnie Williams

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Butch Harrison

CYPRESS LOUNGE: Geoffrey Castle

THE CHAPEL: Ruth Serrão

SERAFINA: Fred Hoadley Trio

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Dawn Clement/Ben Roseth Group

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin

NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE: Return to Seattle, with Devin Lowe (bass), Colin McLaurin (drums), Mack Grout (piano) and Marc Fendel (sax)

BOXLEY’S: Todd Hymas & Darin Clendenin

MONA’S: Alexis Maurer, Nathan Parker and Frank Clayton

BARCA: Chris Symer, Saul Cline and Dave Snodgrass

BAD MONKEY BISTRO: Katy Bourne Trio

LUCID: The Hang w/ The Teaching

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson and Tad Britton

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Jazz Workshop

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Vocal Jam hosted by Marti MacEwan
9pm – Vocal Showcase featuring Dee Brown

LUCID: Vocalize It w/ Michelle Searle

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Little Big Band

JAZZ ALLEY: Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin

TRIPLE DOOR MAINSTAGE: Cuong Vu Trio

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Bulldog Brass Band Revival
9pm – Jon Solo Album Release Party with Dawn Clement

MIX: Don Mock

SEAMONSTER: McTuff Trio

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez

This Saturday Foundry Dynamic Productions presents an evening of new music at the Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall. Featured will be original compositions by composers Zeines & Trader and the music of the Thomas Marriott Quartet.

More information can be found here.

JAZZ ALLEY: Sax Attack

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

AMORE: Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Primo Kim

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder

POGGIE TAVERN: Better World w/ Marc Smason & Joanne Klein

from The Telegraph:

Starting in the late 1940s, he chronicled a musical era over the ensuing decades with pictures taken in New York, Paris and London. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, has more than 130 Leonard photographs in its permanent collection.

His images helped to shape the visual archetype of the jazz musician. With their rich blacks, whites and silvers, they can strike the beholder, as one critic observed of jazz itself, “like the sound of surprise”.

As well as capturing musicians in performance, Leonard’s lens also recorded them off duty, and his portfolio contained such memorable shots as Louis Armstrong munching a sandwich while contemplating bottles of champagne, or the trumpeter lighting a cigarette as Duke Ellington looks on from the piano.

Continue reading at The Telegraph:

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Greta Matassa Quartet

BAKE’S PLACE: Primo Kim Trio

NEW ORLEANS: Thomas Marriott’s Flexicon

JAZZ ALLEY: Shemekia Copeland

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Perry Robinson
9pm – OWCHARUK 5 with Jim Knodle (trumpet), Beth Fleenor (clarinet), Cody Rahn (drums), Nate Omdal (bass) and Mike Owcharuk (piano)

LATONA PUB: Phil Sparks Trio

BOXLEY’S: Dave Anderson

AMORE: Lonnie Williams

LAKESIDE BISTRO: Sam Chambliss

CHAPEL: Michael Pisaro

LUCID: Mack Grout Group

HIROSHI’S: Gene Argel Quartet

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Sonando

JAZZ ALLEY: Shemekia Copeland

BARCA: Alexey Nikolaev, Paul Gabrielson and Matt Jorgensen

BOXLEY’S: Gene Argel Quartet

NEW ORLEANS: Ham Carson Quintet

BAD MONKEY BISTRO: Maggie Laird Quartet

OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK: Marc Seales Group
5:30pm, Free

INTERBAY GOLF CLUB: Gail Pettis Quartet

THE CHAPEL: Pran (Greg Powers & Stuart Dempster)

LUCID: The Hang w/ The Teaching

THAIKU: Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton

JAZZ ALLEY: Lenny White Anomaly Tour Featuring Jimmy Herring

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Katie King Showcase

NEW ORLEANS: Legacy Quartet w/Clarence Acox

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – The Inside Voices: Nate McVicker, Amy Gottlieb and Charlie Sandford
9pm – Ryan Beckley (Mostly) Trio, with Ryan Beckley (guitar), Luke Bergman (bass), Evan Woodle (drums) and Zubin Hensler (trumpet)

LUCID: Solar Jazz Trio

THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio

JAZZ ALLEY: Lenny White Anomaly Tour Featuring Jimmy Herring

IN SHORELINE … Tonight is the North City Jazz Walk. Pearl Django, Greta Matassa, Brian Nova Trio, Hot Club Sandwich, Jeanette West Trio, Susan Pacal, Sonando and more! 15th Ave NE and 180th starting at 7:00pm. Click here for more information.

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Roadside Attraction Big Band

NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband

EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Roy Horn
9pm – Eli Meisner Trio, with Eli Meisner (guitar), Nathan Parker (bass) and Xavier McHugh (drums)

MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita

THE MIX: Don Mock

SEAMONSTER: McTuff Trio

OWL ‘N THISTLE: Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez

TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Jazz Jam with Darin Clendenin

JAZZ ALLEY: Amina Figarova Sextet

NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans Quintet

AMORE: Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble

EL GAUCHO BELLEVUE: Primo Kim

TOST: Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder