TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Tumbao w/ Thomas Marriott
JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Kashiwa Band
NEW ORLEANS: The Legend Band w/ Clarence Acox
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Lucas Cates Duo
9pm – Vocal jazz jam session, hosted by Dina Blade with the Dan Sales Trio
WHISKEY BAR: Ronnie Pierce
THAIKU: Ron Weinstein Trio
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: Emerald City Jazz Orchestra
JAZZ ALLEY: Jeff Kashiwa Band
NEW ORLEANS: Holotradband
EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE:
7pm – Miss Rose and her Rhythm Percolators
9pm – Kion Quartet, with Tyler Kion (alto & soprano sax), Rich Pellegrin (piano/keyboards), Jessica Kion (bass guitar) and Daniel O’Neil (drums/auxillary)
DEXTER AND HAYES: Tim Kennedy Trio
MARTIN’S ON MADISON: Karin Kajita
MIX: Don Mock, Steve Kim & Charlie Nordstrom
DULCES LATIN BISTRO: Eric Verlinde
Raina Wagner’s blog over at the SeattleTimes.com has a quick mention of jazz at Bumbershoot …
Wandering from the (loud, indie-rock) Broad Street Stage past the (loud, indie-rock) Fisher Green Stage, it was a like stumbling onto a Bumbershoot Oasis when I found myself in the midst of the Northwest Jazz Showcase, Sunday afternoon in the NW Court. Seattle jazzman Matt Jorgensen was drumming with his decade-old group, Matt Jorgensen + 451. Mind you, this was no easy listening. Jorgensen, one of the forces behind Origin Records, the Ballard Jazz Festival, and seattlejazzscene.com, is all about new sounds, atypcial rhythms and blends, and making his audience sit up and pay attention.
He accomplished all of the above in a set that ended with a guest appearance: terrific Seattle trumpeter Thomas Marriott joined Matt Jorgensen + 451 on stage. Marriott traded harmonic lines with sax player Mark Taylor as the band played a song that made me listen with two (or more) brains at once.
My brains took a break to snap a photo, above. It’s Marriott with Jorgensen on drums in the background.
Matt Jorgensen + 451 has a new album to plug. Read more about “Another Morning” on his website.
The Portland Jazz Festival has issued a press release announcing the end of the Portland Jazz Festival.
Portland Jazz Festival has ceased operations ending a five-year span of presenting a world class jazz festival each February in Portland. Since opening February 2004 with Wayne Shorter, Portland Jazz Festival has presented such artists as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Chick Corea & Gary Burton, Dianne Reeves, McCoy Tyner & Ravi Coltrane, and many others. Over the past few years, an array of international artists, including Trygve Seim and Tord Gustavsen (Norway), Tomasz Stanko (Poland), Nik Bartsch’s Ronin (Switzerland), Amina Figarova (Holland), and Diego Ramirez (Mexico), have been prominently spotlighted.
Operations and planning for the 2009 February event could not continue because of a decline in funding and sponsorship support. New sponsors could not be found and other short falls accumulated making it impossible to survive on ticket sale projections and related forms of earned revenue. Even with the anticipation of the 09 festival dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records, recent attempts to develop support throughout the community were not successful.
Click here to read the press release from PDX Jazz.
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB: JAZZ JAM with the Darin Clendenin Trio
THE TRIPLE DOOR: Leif Totusek and the Candelas
NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Quintet
TOST: Michael Shrieve Spellbinder
Looks like the weather is going to be great tomorrow … don’t miss the Pony Boy Records Jazz Picnic!
Pony Boy Records Fifth Annual
JAZZ PICNIC
Sunday, September 7, noon to 5:00
Sandpoint Magnuson Park Garden Amphitheatre
7400 Sandpoint Way NE, Seattle, WA
FREE (donations accepted at the the tip jar)
Summer is making a reprise in Seattle, so pack a picnic and enjoy an afternoon of live jazz in the park. Enter at Sandpoint Way & 74th. Over 50 musicians: EMERALD CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, GREG WILLIAMSON DBL SAX, VICTOR NORIEGA TRIO+2, PETE PETERSEN PORKPIE, VERN SIELERT DEKTET, JAY THOMAS SEXTET, KAREN SHIVERS, AL KEITH GROUP, TROMBONASAURUS WRECKS, ZYDECO ETOUFEE, and many many more… T-shirts, CDs, prizes, hot dogs and jazz…
For more information visit the Pony Boy Records website.
SATURDAY, SEPT 6
THE TRIPLE DOOR
216 Union Street
206-838-4333
7:30pm
JazzTimes calls Jacqui Naylor “an incomparable triple threat, serving up classic covers with the best of them, delivering top-drawer originals and inspiring with the musical marriage she calls acoustic smashing.” As the New York Times puts it “the words and melody are Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’ but the groove is Allman’s ‘Whipping Post.’ Naylor has the chops and sensitivity to pull it off.” She and her band tour nationally and internationally with recent debuts at Ronnie Scotts, London and Blue Note, Milan and Tokyo.
The Wall Street Journal claims “The Color Five and Smashed for the Holidays, mark a turning point in Naylor’s career.” She will release her seventh recording, You Don’t Know JACQ, later this year.
Click here for more info
From The Seattle Times:
Head to Bake’s Place this weekend, and you’ll find yourself feeling it three ways: in the food, the alcohol and in Jeanie Bryson’s voice.
In fact, Bake’s Place in Issaquah might just be the best place to slip into a jazz coma. It’s called a “place” because it’s a repurposed house where you can eat dinner, drink or just watch and hear jazz artists in a “living room” where ghosts of families past watched TV and played Scrabble.
And Jeanie Bryson is the aural equivalent of a giant throw pillow. The daughter of Dizzy Gillespie sings in a gauzy romance voice, mixing the sexy with the Latin with the understated; she pulls you into her lovely haze with taste enough not to needlessly flit and float. Her business is soft-focus, misty-eyed romance. And business is good.
The Jeanie Bryson Quartet plays as part of Bake’s Place’s Visiting Songbirds Series. See the full three-course menu at www.bakesplace.org.
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.”
From Hugo Kugiya’s story in The Seattle Times:
The outdoor stage upon which tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman and his group will play Sunday at the Bumbershoot music and arts festival is among the more intimate at the event, a cozy nook with room for about 800, surrounded by exhibit rooms, sheltered from the rock-thirsty crowds the event is known for.
One of the oldest and most revered performers at the festival, the semiretired Caliman, 76, is among a relative handful of acts that comprise jazz at Bumbershoot this year. Most, if not all, of them (depending on your definition of jazz) will perform Sunday on the Wells Fargo Stage in the Northwest Court, the traditional venue for jazz at Bumbershoot.
While jazz is not the main reason that thousands mob the Seattle Center every Labor Day weekend, Caliman and musicians like him are what make Bumbershoot the unique event that it is, a true mix of forms, genres and interpretations.
Opportunities to hear Caliman play live are precious and becoming more so in the autumn of his career. His local shows, like those at Tula’s, typically sell out. He is about as old as the art form itself, coming of age in the era of big bands, when jazz music was the popular music of its time.
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Los Angeles, he studied with Dexter Gordon (Caliman’s nickname was “Little Dex”), and played with Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Gerald Wilson, Joe Henderson, Nancy Wilson and Earl Hines, with whom he last played as a touring musician. He spent his 50s and 60s teaching at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts before retiring in 2000.
For the first time in decades, he said, “I could devote time to my own music.”
Earlier this year, he released his first album in more than 30 years, “Gratitude,” the fruit of what he called his “second career,” playing with musicians a generation younger. Some of the songs on the album, “Kickin’ on the Inside” and “Comencio,” he also recorded when he was a young musician.
Read More
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.