Earshot Jazz Spring Series Presents Sierra Maestra
Share In this third presentation of the Earshot Jazz Spring Series, Sierra Maestra put on a spell binding performance on Saturday March 31st at Town Hall, that had a large portion of the audience up on the floor dancing the entire concert with some so moved they came up on the stage for brief cameos. Revered [...]
Ben Williams Group at Seattle Art Museum
Share In the second presentation of the Earshot Jazz Spring Series, Ben Williams put on a tremendously pleasing show last Saturday night. Rising-star bassist Ben Williams performed with his group at the Seattle Art Museum, downtown. The Washington DC-born, Harlem-based bandleader, musical educator, composer, electric and acoustic bassist was the winner of the 2009 Thelonious [...]
Travis Shook Trio Live at Tula’s
Share Travis Shook Trio at Tula’s Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the Travis Shook Trio at Tula’s last Friday and Saturday nights. this was one of my favorite performances of the festival so far. Travis with Matt Jorgensen (drums) and Essiet Essiet (bass) played some really cool sounding jazz from some standards, to Beetles tunes to his own [...]
Wessell Anderson’s Quartet
Share Wes “Warm Daddy” Anderson at Tula’s Monday Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented a special jazz lesson from soulful, searing alto saxophonist Wessell “Warm Daddy” Anderson, with Phill Sparks on bass, Bill Anschell, piano and D’Vonne Lewis, drums. A former member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and charter member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, [...]
Bill Anschell Trio
Share Bill Anschell at Tula’s in the last performance of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the Bill Anschell Trio as its last performance on Sunday Nov 9th. closing out the three week long annual festival.Nearly 10 years have passed since Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City after spending 25 years studying, [...]
Grace Kelly
Share Grace Kelly Quintet at Tula’s in the last week of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the 19-year-old jazz wonder, saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly who “plays with intelligence, wit, and feeling,” says one of her many fans, Wynton Marsalis. Just five years ago at the age of 14, Grace Kelly garnered the first of her ASCAP [...]
Hardcoretet at Tula’s
Share Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the energetic Seattle quartet Hardcoretet who performed originals drawn from jazz, rock, soul, and improvised music, inspired by fusion supergroups as well as modern jazz outfits like Chris Potter’s Underground and Kneebody. It featured Art Brown (alto sax), Aaron Otheim (keys), Tim Carey (bass), and Tarik Abouzied (drums). With Art Brown [...]
Evan Flory-Barnes
Share Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented Evan Flory-Barnes Acknowledgement of a Celebration at the Kirkland Performance Center and it was my second time to see and hear it. As a reprise of the 2009 Earshot Golden Ear performance of the year, Evan brought back his Earshot- and Meet the Composer-commissioned work for large-ensemble fusion of jazz, hip-hop, [...]
Emi Meyer and the Japan Trio at the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle,WA
Share Emi Meyer and her Japan Trio performed at Tula’s as part of the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival and I was taken aback with how wonderful she played and sang. The Kyoto-born, Seattle-raised pianist and vocalist, who won the Seattle-Kobe Jazz Vocalist Competition in 2007 and has topped Japanese jazz charts, appeared with Motoki Yamaguchi (drums) [...]
Eric Vloeimans
Share Eric Vloeimans and his group Gatecrash, put on an amazing and mesmerizing performance at The Seattle Art Museum as the first week of the Earshot Jazz Festival opens. The stellar Dutchman’s Gatecrash chain-links lazy lounge, hard-core beats, spaced-out moods and Zappaesque meters. Eric Vloeimans has joined the ranks of European jazzmen altering the art form [...]
Wayne Horvitz New Group Trio Commando
Share Trio Commando made their public debut last noght at the chapel Performance Space opening up for Eric Barber, performing improvisations, excavations and conversations through a high powered trio configuration featuring Wayne Horvitz (piano), Samantha Boshnack(trumpets), and Beth Fleenor (clarinets/voice). Unexpected and brilliant set of music with exciting electronic and vocal intermixing. Since arriving in Seattle in 1998, [...]
Robert Glasper At Tula’s
Share I was blown away by Robert Glasper playing at Tula’s. Glasper’s music can be described as “experiments with space, rhythm and chord textures”, creating a vast array of sound. He has said that he tries to make the music flow in a way more like a hip-hop beat, trying to always leave the music open [...]
Rokia Traoré
Share Hailed as West Africa’s most exciting new talent, the singer/songwriter/guitarist from Mali, Rokia Traoré, with her eight-piece band, employs traditional song forms, her extraordinary voice, and instruments of Mali (n’goni, balafon, and kora), to express a bold, fresh outlook. In her songs of respect, traditions, and relationships, Traoré’s music and nuanced vocals are informed by her background in the Bamana people of [...]
Threat of Beauty
Share Amazing bassist Evan Flory-Barnes with his group Threat of Beauty had a great set at the Twisted Cork Lounge at Hyatt Regency Bellevue as part of the 2011 Bellevue Jazz Festival last Thursday. Also in the group is Jason Holt on drums and and Jacques Willis on Vibes. Here are a few images from their performance which I throughly enjoyed. [...]
Tierney Sutton
ShareThree-time GRAMMY® nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Tierney Sutton and the Tierney Sutton Band performed at the Theatre at Meydenbauer Cente Friday, June 3rd, and were really great. Tierney Sutton Band has collaborated for a span of 17 years. They have also been awarded the JazzWeek Award for Vocalist Of The Year, earned consecutive nominations for Jazz [...]
Regina Carter
Share Preeminent violinist Regina Carter put on a fascinatingly beautiful performance tonight as she and her band kicked off the opening performance of the 2011 Bellevue Jazz Festival at the Theatre at Meydenbauer Cente. If the rest of the Festival is half as good as Regina was tonight it will be a festival full of wonderful [...]
Ask The Ages
Share Ask The Ages played a great set on Saturday night opening up for Gutbucket. They are Brian Heaney, guitar, Greg Campbell, drums, John Seman, bass, and Steven Bell, vibraphone. Here are some pictures from the evening. Share on Facebook Tweet
Ballard Jazz Walk
Share Burn List featuring: Chris Icasiano, Aaron Otheim, Greg Sinibaldi and Cuong Vu Had the chance to see 3 of the 20 shows on the Ballard Jazz Walk, on the 3rd day of the annual Ballard Jazz Festival. Burn List put on a great set upstairs at the Salmon Bay Eagles. Playing downstairs at the Salmon Bay [...]
McCoy Tyner and Bill Frisell
Share McCoy Tyner Quintet with Bill Frisell, Gary Bartz, John Patitucci and Herlin Riley McCoy Tyner has always expanded his vision of the musical landscape and incorporated new elements, whether from distant continents or diverse musical influences. More recently he has arranged for big bands, employed string arrangements, and even reinterpreted popular music. Recently Tyner [...]
Gerald Clayton on Earshot Jazz Cover
Share Gerald Calyton performed last fall as part of the Earshot Jazz festival and he will be back at Tula’s for another Earshot Jazz concert. This picture was chosen for the cover of Earshot Jazz Magazine this month. Photography by Seattle photographers Daniel Sheehan creates photography for editorial publications and corporations and available for commercial photography assignments.
BLUE CRANES at the Earshot Jazz Festival
Share The Portland based group Blue Cranes performed with a string section at the Tractor Tavern Tuesday night in the third week of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Part of the recent movement of jazz musicians to bring an indie-rock ethos to their post-bop chops and harmonic sensibilities (think a West Coast version of the Bad [...]
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | Jazz Photography
Share The amazing music of Ryuichi Sakamoto was wonderful in concert Saturday night at the Moore Theatre as the Earshot Jazz Festival presented along with the Seattle Theatre Group the Japanese musician celebrating his recent double-CD release on Decca label. Seattle is one of only ten cities Sakamoto has selected for his rare North American [...]
Jazz Photography | Mavis Staples
Share Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and soul/gospel legend, Mavis Staples performed at Town Hall Sunday as the Earshot Jazz Festival moves into the third week. Mavis Staples at 71 years old, shows no signs of slowing and first came to prominence as a member of the Staple Singers. The group led by her [...]
Eyeshot Jazz Photography DAFNIS PRIETO PROVERB TRIO
Share Just got back from THE CROCODILE where Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio performed and with Cuong Vu / Andrew D’Angelo: Agogic doing the opening set. What a night. It is late so I will post a brief and add more on Tuesday. When the 25 year old Cuban born percussionist Dafnis Prieto’s arrived on the [...]